11To George Washington from John Kirkpatrick, 22 September 1756 (Washington Papers)
“No Profession in the World can secure from Contempt and Indignation a Character made up of Vice and D⟨e⟩bauchery; and no Man is obliged to tre⟨a⟩t such a Cha⟨r⟩acter as sacred. When raw Novices and R⟨a⟩kes...
12To George Washington from Robert McKenzie, 18 February 1757 (Washington Papers)
...explain myself more fully: the Scheme proposed, is to enter myself a Volontier in the Brittish Troops whereby I may in Time be introduced to a State of Independence. This, (as the World goes at present) I know cannot be effected, without the Intercession & Interest of Friends, which Benefit I have not had an Opportunity to cultivate. If this Step should appear rational & adviseable to you, I...
13To George Washington from Joseph Chew, 14 March 1757 (Washington Papers)
...himself will be greatfull, and I assure you I Shall Ever be so, indeed I make no doubt but you will Receive a satisfaction in showing Favour to a Poor youth whose Fathers bad œconomy has turn’d into the world to shift for himself, but this subject would be only troubling you with Mallencholly Scenes you have no Connection with.
14To George Washington from John Hall, April–May 1757 (Washington Papers)
...unfortunate which a reduction or general Dissmission may create amongst us. These are the coercive motives—I have all that regard for Col. Washington he can possibly expect, & it would be easy for him to carry me through the World was I one of the Number he’d choose to accompany him, & on whom he’d bestow the Assurance of Bread.
15To George Washington from John Baylor, 20 June 1757 (Washington Papers)
render me incapable of any Atchevts in that Part of the World could we get a peacable or even Forcible Possession of that fine Country lying between the Mississippi & Ohio I had rather live there than any Part of America & more so after a late Confab. with Capt. Gist...
16To George Washington from George Mercer, 17 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
It is a very odd Method of judging but however tis the Plan upon which most of the World goes, and therefore to find ourselves judged for the Errors or Imperfections of others ⟨is not very⟩ unaccountable—but we have been told here by the Officers
..., who wrote John Stanwix from Charleston on 25 Aug. 1757: “You have given me the best Major I know in the World, I had a very high Opinion of...
17To George Washington from William Peachey, 22 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
...if I shou’d find it necessary, you won’t take it a miss, that I make Use of yr Last to me on the South Branch, for I understand that it is generally supposed in that part of the World, that some leading Man has placed my Character in a very bad Light to the Governr or say they, his Honour wou’d never have reduced him & appointed a younger Capt.
18To George Washington from William Smith, 10 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
...doubt not you have Journals of every Thing, & you may depend the most prudent Use shall be made of them. To you in particular we shall do all Justice, without suffering our Friendship to influence us farther than the world shall confess your just merits require: As this history is to be a full one & will probably be long preserved,
19To George Washington from William Peachey, 14 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
...enjoy’d the Company of that Frd whom I had scarcely known to be such, but I lost the Sweets of a Friendship I had long and greatly desired, by being undr the Necessity of leaving that Pt of the World, where alone I cou’d meet with that Friend—In poor Spotswood I lost a Man I loved as a Brother—I lament the untimely Fate of Bullit, Both of whom I am convinced wou’d have made good...
20To George Washington from John Baylis, 30 January 1758 (Washington Papers)
...acct of the whole affair, which must consequently expose those who were conserned in it as well as the Intolarable Insolence & cowardice of Alixand. Woodrow who has no way Left to contradict this Just Asspertion but by shewing the World to the contrary.