1To George Washington from John Parke, 25 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
185–86). Parke is now best known for the book of poetry he published anonymously in 1786,
2To George Washington from John Searson, 13 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
...Meeting with financial misfortunes during the Revolutionary War, he returned to Ireland, spent about fifteen years as schoolmaster at Colerain, issued poems in 1794 and 1795, and then returned to the United States. Searson subsequently issued three more books of poetry, dedicating the latter two volumes to GW: