201To George Washington from George Mason, 21 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
The embarrass’d Situation of my Friend Mr Jas Mercer’s Affairs gives Me much more Concern than Surprize. I always feared that his Aversion to selling the Lands & Slaves, in Expectation of paying the Debts with the Crops & Profits of the Estate, whilst a heavy Interest was still accumulating, wou’d be attended with bad Consequences, independant of his Brother’s Difficultys in England; having...
202To George Washington from Peter Hog, 11 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
About 8 Days agoe I got to this Town on my return from the great Kanhawa after a Division of our large Survey made with more Equality & Satisfaction to the several patentees than could have been reasonably expected in such a large & consequently unequal Tract as to Quality Situation &c., tho. Collo. Stephens & myself have gott little better than 8,000 Acres in full of our Claim of 9,000. Time...
203To George Washington from Francis Willis, 6 December 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Francis Willis, Jr. 6 Dec. 1773. The letter is listed in the Thomas Birch’s Sons catalog no. 663, item 73, 21–23 April, 1891.
204To George Washington from Edmund Pendleton, 4 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
I received yr Favr & am very glad you have made the purchase of Mr Black. I am Possessed of none of the title Deeds, probably Colo. Brooke may to whom I immediately wrote & desired him, if he had, to forward them to Colo. Bassetts For you, or to Wmsburg to Mr Wythe, but have since heard he was not come home two days agoe. I imagine part of the conveyances are in the Secretary’s Office, & the...
205To George Washington from Joseph Davenport, 30 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
on the Recept of your Letter I went immediately to the Office and the Clerk was gone to Wmsburgh, upon which I got Mr William Dandridge and Several other Gent. (who was Supposed to be acquaintd with Searching the Record) to go in to the office and they Could find no Such deeds as you Wrote for, which Obliged me to wait till two oClock this afternon at which time a young man came that had wrote...
206To George Washington from Richard Tunstall, 29 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
In my Sons absence your Letter came to my hands, to comply with which I have sent you a copy of John Story’s will & a Deed from Charles Story to the late Speaker wch are all, in this office, that relate to the Land that you have purchased of Mr Black. It may perhaps give you some satisfaction to look into the Secretaries office for a Deed which was made by one Story to the Speaker about 20...
207To George Washington from George William Fairfax, 26 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
Having wrote to you, soon after my arrival in London, and immediately after my Wife’s recovery out of the small Pox, I have now only to acquaint you of our Arrival, and being fixed in our old Lodgings in this City, where we had the satisfaction to find many of our old Friends and acquaintance. I have not as yett, been able to do anything in the business that brought me over, owing to the...
208To George Washington from William Black, 16 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
Being somewhat unwilling to run the Risque of Captain Parker’s offer, which perhaps might be the Case, Shoud his Messenger have return’d without a determined Answer, I therefore sent yesterday over to the Boat Man who had a few Oats to deliver at Urbanna, That if he wou’d wait till wednesday morning, I wou’d pay him 20/ which he having Consented to, I have now sent my Son over with this other...
209To George Washington from William Crawford, 12 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
I Received yours of July 27th Septemr 25th and 26th one of which you blame me somthing in Regard to not Discovering those Lands nearly Oppesite to the other Survays on the Kanhaway, the two bottoms below the mouth of Pocketalico I saw my self, but the Land on Pocketalico I did not see but sent the men I had hired to serch and see what sort of Land there was whilst I was Runing the Other Side...
210To George Washington from John David Wilper, 1 November 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John David Wilper, 1 Nov. 1773. On 30 Nov. GW wrote : “Before your Letter of the 1st Instt came to my hands.”