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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Dinwiddie, Robert | Washington, George | To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 25 May 1754 | 1754-05-25 | ...but wd be now the worst reason in the World for quiting the Service or laying down Commos... |
2 | Campbell, Daniel | Washington, George | To George Washington from Daniel Campbell, 28 June 1754 | 1754-06-28 | In this affair of the Skirmish the world hereabouts with whom I am conversant talks of you as... |
3 | Sharpe, Horatio | Washington, George | To George Washington from Horatio Sharpe, 1 October … | 1754-10-01 | ...doubt but Your future Behaviour will convince the World of the Injustice done You by the... |
4 | Brockenbrough, William | Washington, George | To George Washington from William Brockenbrough, 29 … | 1755-09-29 | ...afraid as he’s young and knowing little of the world or mankind That he’l be more lyable to... |
5 | Orme, Robert | Washington, George | To George Washington from Robert Orme, 10 November 1755 | 1755-11-10 | You know best if the World or I judge of my Conduct most unprejudicedly for as... |
6 | Gage, Thomas | Washington, George | To George Washington from Thomas Gage, 23 November 1755 | 1755-11-23 | ...great Pleasure to hear from a Person, of whom The World has justly, so good an Opinion; & for... |
7 | Stephen, Adam | Washington, George | To George Washington from Adam Stephen, 23 December … | 1755-12-23 | ...Neutral Islands; we have all the Reason in the World to believe we would be Cut to pieces... |
8 | Carter, Landon | Washington, George | To George Washington from Landon Carter, May 1756 | ≈1756-05-01 | ...an Association where the whole body are evidences and the world only their judges thro’... |
9 | Gage, Thomas | Washington, George | To George Washington from Thomas Gage, 10 May 1756 | 1756-05-10 | Affairs in this part of The World are at present at a Stand; Genl Shirley is... |
10 | Mason, George | Washington, George | To George Washington from George Mason, 13 September … | 1756-09-13 | ...private, yet they are the last people in the World I shou’d chuse to have any Concern... |
11 | Kirkpatrick, John | Washington, George | To George Washington from John Kirkpatrick, 22 … | 1756-09-22 | “No Profession in the World can secure from Contempt and Indignation a Character made up... |
12 | McKenzie, Robert | Washington, George | To George Washington from Robert McKenzie, 18 February … | 1757-02-18 | ...to a State of Independence. This, (as the World goes at present) I know cannot be effected... |
13 | Chew, Joseph | Washington, George | To George Washington from Joseph Chew, 14 March 1757 | 1757-03-14 | ...whose Fathers bad œconomy has turn’d into the world to shift for himself, but this subject... |
14 | Hall, John | Washington, George | To George Washington from John Hall, April–May 1757 | ≈1757-04-01 | ...it would be easy for him to carry me through the World was I one of the Number he’d choose to... |
15 | Baylor, John | Washington, George | To George Washington from John Baylor, 20 June 1757 | 1757-06-20 | ...incapable of any Atchevts in that Part of the World could we get a peacable or even Forcible... |
16 | Mercer, George | Washington, George | To George Washington from George Mercer, 17 August 1757 | 1757-08-17 | ...however tis the Plan upon which most of the World goes, and therefore to find ourselves judged... |
17 | Peachey, William | Washington, George | To George Washington from William Peachey, 22 August … | 1757-08-22 | ...it is generally supposed in that part of the World, that some leading Man has placed my... |
18 | Smith, William | Washington, George | To George Washington from William Smith, 10 November … | 1757-11-10 | ...our Friendship to influence us farther than the world shall confess your just merits require... |
19 | Peachey, William | Washington, George | To George Washington from William Peachey, 14 November … | 1757-11-14 | ...undr the Necessity of leaving that Pt of the World, where alone I cou’d meet with that... |
20 | Baylis, John | Washington, George | To George Washington from John Baylis, 30 January 1758 | 1758-01-30 | ...way Left to contradict this Just Asspertion but by shewing the World to the contrary. |
21 | Thompson, Nathaniel | Washington, George | To George Washington from Nathaniel Thompson, 20 … | 1758-02-20 | We did not imagine that You or the World would have believed him & therefore we did intend to... |
22 | Chew, Joseph | Washington, George | To George Washington from Joseph Chew, 17 May 1758 | 1758-05-17 | ...have the Pleasure of seeing you in this Part of the world having heard me often mention you |
23 | Kirkpatrick, John | Washington, George | To George Washington from John Kirkpatrick, 21 July … | 1758-07-21 | ...and doing no one Individual thing in the world, except confusing what he undertakes” (3... |
24 | Johnston, George | Washington, George | To George Washington from George Johnston, 8 January … | 1760-01-08 | ...Dragging him Out to publick Justice to shew the World the Lurking Scoundrel, yet in his Case... |
25 | Fairfax, George William | Washington, George | To George Washington from George William Fairfax, 15 … | 1761-04-15 | ...determinat⟨ion⟩ about leaving that part of the world, for I assure you it’s our... |
26 | Stewart, Robert | Washington, George | To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 25 February … | 1762-02-25 | ...Travels on Paper in this part of the World without great Danger from Robbrs and Highwaymen... |
27 | Burnaby, Andrew | Washington, George | To George Washington from Andrew Burnaby, 14 December … | 1763-12-14 | ...places is magnificent, and stored with the finest Curiosities in the World. |
28 | Burnaby, Andrew | Washington, George | To George Washington from Andrew Burnaby, 29 April 1765 | 1765-04-29 | ...Corsicans in this part of the World are a Subject of Very interesting Conversation, though... |
29 | Moore, Thomas | Washington, George | To George Washington from Thomas Moore, 24 October 1766 | 1766-10-24 | ...paid I therefore have all the reason in the World to beleave the time draws near that I... |
30 | Boucher, Jonathan | Washington, George | To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 13 June … | 1768-06-13 | ...at all, as I have all the Reason in the World to believe that it will, the Parish I... |