1To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 2 January 1787 (Washington Papers)
...on the Barley & Seed being Shipped by the first Opportunity—it will [be] time enough to send the money when I shall ascertain the Cost of these Articles. I have made Enquiry of Several for the Jerusalem Artichoke but can find but one person (Jos: James) who knows it he says that he thinks he may find some persons who have Cultivated them & if he can will try to get them—he says they...
2To George Washington from Benjamin Fitzhugh Grymes, 14 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
It affords me the highest satisfaction to have it in my power to oblige you by sending of you five bushels of Jerusalem Artichokes, and had it not been for an [un]luckey experiment I shd have been able to have spared you a large quantity, but I have sent you the better half. In order to increase my crop, I...GW also corresponded with George Weedon about the cultivation of Jerusalem artichokes