421To George Washington from William Lee, 19 January 1770 (Washington Papers)
Having enter’d into partnership with Messrs De Berdt’s & Sayre, we now send Capt. Walker out in a new Ship to load for us in Poto. & hope he will meet your kind assistance, for which we shall always think ourselves much oblig’d & shall endeavor to give you gratefull proofs thereof. Mrs Lee will particularly attend to the choosing any thing her good Cousins Mrs W. & Miss Custis may want for...
422To George Washington from John Semple, 8 January 1770 (Washington Papers)
I am Sorry it is not convenient for you to take Iron for Mr Kennedays Pork Should my people have got It which is uncertain[.] when I came from the Furnace I left directions with them to procure it If possible & which Mr Kenneday had promised me to be at the Furnace about that Week[.] Should they have got It[,] would a Credite with Doctr Ross Suit you[?] I am greatly pleased to find you are so...
423To George Washington from James Horrocks, 1769 (Washington Papers)
I will take particular Care of the Paper you have sent me, & I am of Opinion I may safely promise you that the Appointment to the Surveyorship mention’d will not be made out before the Time you speak of—I assure you I cannot help considering this as ⟨for⟩ a particular matter, wherein some forms may be dispens’d with under proper Care that the College receives no Detriment, & if this shou’d be...
424To George Washington from James Horrocks, 21 December 1769 (Washington Papers)
I am much oblig’d to you for the clear Account you have been pleas’d to send me to Day concerning the Lands to be survey’d. I dare say you will agree with me in Opinion that it is for the Honor of the College as well as the Interest of the Officers & Soldiers, that (to use the Words of the Council) “a Person properly qualify’d to survey those Lands be appointed by us[”] —I have no Doubt of Mr...
425To George Washington from Josiah Johnson, 20 December 1769 (Washington Papers)
It is with great Pleasure I sit down to inform you, that it is ⟨now⟩ in my Power to contribute my little Mite of Service to one of the gallant ⟨De⟩fenders of their Country. Nor shou’d I (however cautious it may be necessary to be in general) have ⟨hesita⟩ted a Moment to have given my hearty Assent, when you first did me the Honor of applying to me on the Subject of appointing Mr Crawford...
426To George Washington from Daniel McCarty, 6 December 1769 (Washington Papers)
I send you by Mr Peirce Bayly the Deeds made by me, and my wife to Mr Chichester, and Likewise them from him, and his wife to me, as also my Grandfathers will, Wherein you will find in the 3d Page how he Gave the Land, Fairfax County was then Stafford, and by Looking over the will you may see some hardships which my father was laid under more then Either of his Brothers—My wifes fathers will I...
427To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 25 October 1769 (Washington Papers)
We have the pleasure to advise the receipt of thy favor of 25th July and note the contents—We remark thy observation respecting the Balance of thy Account being £7.10.0, and that had thee thought of our Debit against ⟨thee⟩ at the time thee was disposing of thy Tobacco, thee should have order’d one Hhd on board the Hanbury in discharge of it, this we should have been oblig’d to thee for, but...
428To George Washington from George Mason, 17 October 1769 (Washington Papers)
I have Your Favour, returning the Deed I sent you, which I have not had an Opportunity of executing before Witnesses that coud be at this Court; I shall therefore endeavour to wait on You with it at Posey’s Sale, or sooner, if I am able to ride: it is certain that there is no Warranty contain’d in the Deed; nor did I apprehend You expected one, or I shou’d have objected to it at the Time; as I...
429To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 15 October 1769 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to trouble You with the inclosed two Letters; the one for Mr Pendleton has a little money in it including his Fee for his late advice, which I received yesterday, and which is expressed in these Words, “I think you & Colo. Washington should not pay the money for Mrs Savage’s separate use, to any person but by a power of attorney from her, especially as her changeable temper may...
430To George Washington from George Mason, 14 October 1769 (Washington Papers)
As it is too common to put off what it’s supposed may be done at any Time, I delayed drawing the Deed of Release to You ’till this Week, & was unluckily on Monday Night last seized so violently with the Gout in one of my Feet that I was unable to stir for two or three Days, & cou’d never Sit up to write ’till Yesterday Afternoon; which has prevented my getting the Deed finished before this...
431To George Washington from William Crawford, 13 October 1769 (Washington Papers)
They Sirwayrs is to be [here] to serway your Land soon and will want there cash which I have not for them. You may send it by Mr Harrison seald up in a Letter to me half Joes or Pensilvania mony will sute best for them. I beleve no Person interfares with you—I shall have the hole Runout before the Sirwayr coms on the spot I have bin unwell or I would have had it don befor now I shall have that...
432To George Washington from Thomas Montgomerie, 5 October 1769 (Washington Papers)
Nothing else than Mr Grayson’s not returning Home untill the day before yesterday, could have prevented me from giving you an answer relative to the payment of Mrs Savages annuity long before this time—I now beg leave to inform you, that it is his opinion as well as myne, that it would not be prudent or safe in me to answer your demand in behalf of Mrs Savage. With my best respects to Mrs...
433To George Washington from Fielding Lewis, 16 September 1769 (Washington Papers)
I expect with this You will receive a Letter from my Son Fielding inclosing an Order on Mr Robert Alexander for the Balla. of his Wifes Fortune which I am very apprehensive is reduced to a small Sum as Mr Alexander writes me that he has paid several Orders and requests that the Ballance may be taken out of his Hands and dispos’d off in the manner I shall think most to Fieldings advantage; I...
434To George Washington from Fielding Lewis, Jr., 13 September 1769 (Washington Papers)
Inclos’d you have an Order on Mr Robart Alexander for the Ballance remaining in his Hands of my Wifes Fortune which I shall be Oblig’d to you to receive for me, and purchase Slaves to the amount thereof, I shall chuse to have Strong likely Young Negro Men if they cost the more, as those which I have allready bought are but indifferent Hands, the sooner the Money is disposed off the better, as...
435To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 26 July 1769 (Washington Papers)
This serves to advise the arrival of the Hanbury Capt. James Esten, after a favor⟨abl⟩e passage of about 5 Weeks, by him we observe we are favor’d with 8 Hhds Tobacco from our friend J.P. Custis, in the Sale of which our best endeavors shall be exerted for his Interest—The Ship came up to her Moorings yesterday, and we are preparing to Land her Cargo the begining of the next Week—The prices of...
436To George Washington from John Posey, 25 July 1769 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Posey, 25 July 1769. On 26 July GW wrote to Posey : “In answer to your Letter of yesterday. . . .”
437To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 20 July 1769 (Washington Papers)
In Consequence of your Lr, Mastr Custis now waits on You; & as this is a pretty busy Time with Us in School, I shall be glad He may set off back again at the same Time You do for the Springs. Enclosed You have his Acct for the last Year, which as You were so obliging as to offer Me when I was at Mount Vernon, I will beg the Favr of You now to send by Jack. I hope it will not appear too high to...
438To George Washington from Joseph Valentine, 8 July 1769 (Washington Papers)
when I Rote to you Last I thought I had a Very fine prospect of a Crop but the Case is greatly alterd now for we hant had Rain to wet the Earth sence may our tobaco though planted over three times is now a great deel of it Burnt up in the hills and mising the upper Quarters about ten days ago was wors off with their Crops then we are below their has Ben a good deel of Rain abought sence tho....
439To George Washington from Edmund Pendleton, 3 July 1769 (Washington Papers)
I have at Last found Leisure to peruse & consider the papers you left with me for my Opinion on the nature of your Interest in your Fairfax Lands. The deed of Settlement made by your Father on your brother Lawrence is long & complicated occasioned chiefly by an Intention to provide against the contingincie of the Prince Wm Lands which were the Subject of that deed & the Westmorland Lands...
440To George Washington from Thomas Hanson Marshall, 18 June 1769 (Washington Papers)
Having sum Company, and the Wind Blowing fresh, Prevented my Attending on you this day, as Intended; However immagen this may satisfy you, in Answar to your’s, by Mr Land Washington, Relative to my Lands in Virginia—I would Readily make an Exchange, for Mr Alexanders Land on this side, Provided I could be made safe in Regard to the Conveyance, As his Wife is not of Suffiteant Age to Co[n]vey...
441To George Washington from Samuel Gist, 17 June 1769 (Washington Papers)
I take this opportunity to acquaint you of the Death of Mr Capel Hanbury & as he chiefly Managed the Buiseness it will Probably be a means of some of their Friends changeing their Corrospondants here, I therefore beg leave to Offer you my best Services & to Assure you if it suits you to make Tryal of me that you shall be dealt with by the Strictest Rules of Justice & Honor. There is very...
442To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 20 May 1769 (Washington Papers)
We have the pleasure to advise the Receipt of thy favor of 4th Novemr last, and to acquaint thee, that thy Bill to J. Gibson for £100 has been duly Honor’d, & is plac’d to the Debit of J.P. Custis’s Account. We now forward Accounts Sales for his 9 Hhds Tobacco received ⅌ the Hanbury which is under cover of a Letter address’d to him inclos’d herein —we flatter ourselves they will prove...
443To George Washington from William Peareth, 1 May 1769 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Peareth, 1 May 1769. On 20 Sept. 1770 GW wrote to Peareth : “Your letter of the 1st of May 1769 . . . came to the Exrs . . . about 1st of Decr last.”
444To George Washington from Thomas, Lord Fairfax, 30 April 1769 (Washington Papers)
I have sent down to my Brother a Plan of the County of Frederick; I hear Mr Harrison has got a Petition for a division to come down as low as Ceder Creek, which will be approved by our Burgesses in order to prevent the lower part of the County from ever attempting to make another Division which will be a great prejudice to the Inhabitans on Potomack. I shall therefore be obliged to you to...
445To George Washington from George Mason, 28 April 1769 (Washington Papers)
Upon looking over the Association, of which I sent You a Copy, I have made some few alterations in it, as ⅌ Memdm on the other Side. I beg Your Care of the inclosed Letters; & heartily wishing you (what I fear you will not have) an agreeable Session, I am Dr Sr Yr most obdt Sert P.S. I shall take it as a particular Favour if You’ll be kind enough to get me two pr of Gold Snaps made at Wmsburg...
446To George Washington from John West, Jr., 26 April 1769 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have your Papers which I borrowed. In Answer to the Sale of the Land—I will take Two Pistoles pr Acre for it, which I Think a reasonable Price; Or I will give that Sum per acre for Posey’s, if sold, or more. If you incline to purchase, I shall not call on you for the Money very soon, Six Months at least you may have, perhaps a Year or Two; for as I told you, The Money arising from...
447To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 17 April 1769 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Jonathan Boucher, 17 April 1769. On 24 April GW wrote to Boucher : “Your favour of the 17th came to my hands.”
448To George Washington from George Mason, 5 April 1769 (Washington Papers)
I have Yr Favour of this Day, inclosing the Resolves of the Merchts in philadelphia &c. which I return by the Bearer, as I had before recd Duplicates of them from our Friend the Doctor. I entirely agree with You that no regular plan of the Sort proposed can be entered into here—before the Meeting of the Genl Court at least, if not that of the Assembly; when a Number of Gentlemen, from the...
449To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 1 March 1769 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 1 Mar. 1769. On 25 July 1769 GW wrote Robert Cary & Co. : “the date of your Letter of the first of March.”
450To George Washington from John Posey, 28 January 1769 (Washington Papers)
If you can conveniently lett my son hanson have few Bricks, to mend two ovens, it wou’d infinitely, oblidge me, besides Paying. If my daughter Amelea wants any kind cloaths, that is agreable to Mrs Washington Please to lett her have—I will thankfully Pay —I thought been at home this month, but am afraid it will be the last next. I am Dear Sir, Your obt Humble Servt ALS , DLC:GW . There are a...