11[September 1769] (Washington Papers)
Robert Hanson Harrison (1745–1790), originally of Charles County, Md., was an Alexandria lawyer. He was a signer of the Fairfax County nonimportation association in 1770. He served as GW’s private secretary with the rank of lieutenant......Alexander came before Sun Rise this Morning & we all went a fox huntg. Started one & run him into a hollow tree, in an hour & 20 minutes. Chase him in the...
12[October 1769] (Washington Papers)
Posey had been drinking heavily in recent weeks and had often been absent from his home, but he came to Mount Vernon today, as GW reported to Robert Hanson Harrison on 7 Oct., “perfectly Sober and proposed of his own voluntary motion to sell his Estate finding it in vain to struggle on longer against the Terms of Debt that oppresses him.” The sale was to......the afternoon Mr. Robt. Alexander...
13Cash Accounts, October 1769 (Washington Papers)
By £131.15.0 paid Mr Robt Alexander with Gold & Dollars value in VirgaGW to Robert Hanson Harrison, 7 Oct.
14[Diary entry: 13 October 1769] (Washington Papers)
Thomas Hanson Marshall owned 480½ acres that bordered the Mount Vernon tract on the west, lying on both sides of the road that ran from Gum Spring to Dogue Creek. GW had long wished to acquire that land, but Marshall... ...). Consequently, GW persuaded his fellow fox hunter Robert Alexander to promise to sell him, at £2 Maryland currency an acre, 300 to 400 acres of a tract next to Marshall...
15[Diary entry: 24 October 1769] (Washington Papers)
Went to the Sale again. Mr. Harrison Mr. Sebastian & Mr. Magowan came home with me also Robt. Alexander. Found Doctr. Rumney here., folio 61). Mason had sent GW the deed for this tract ten days earlier, and it was registered in the Fairfax County court 22 Nov. 1769, being proved by Robert Hanson Harrison, William Carlin, and Humphrey Peake (
16Cash Accounts, December 1769 (Washington Papers)
By Mr Robt Alexander pr Lund Washington £81.6.0 Maryland Dischargd byThis was the final payment for the tract of land in Maryland that GW proposed purchasing from Alexander. For the first payment, see
17To George Washington from Thomas Hanson Marshall, 8 March 1770 (Washington Papers)
..., for the same Quantity of Land (off Mr Alexanders) to be Laid off Sutable to my Plantation in Maryland, Provided I could have the same in Immediate Use, which was then Agreed to, Provided Mr Alexander could so Dispose the same; At Poseys sale You mentioned to me, you should be Glad to have that Matter setled Before you Went down the Cuntry, as you wanted (If the Exchange could be now...
18From George Washington to Thomas Hanson Marshall, 9 March 1770 (Washington Papers)
& Mr Alexander informd me, that in answer to yr Letter he had desired that you woud do what you pleasd with the Land he held in Maryld consistent with the Laws & customs of that Provence and that the next time...
19To George Washington from Thomas Hanson Marshall, 12 March 1770 (Washington Papers)
...between us, Relative to the Land; Nor never denyed any Part to my knowledg. The End that a cash Price was agreed to (as I took it) was upon its being mentioned there was a Possibillity of Mr Alexander’s never haveing it in his Power to Convey the Land in Maryland, I then said, should that be the case, I would then Receive of a Certain Price in Cash per Acer for them slipes; this was...Alexander
20From George Washington to Thomas Hanson Marshall, 16 March 1770 (Washington Papers)
...at my House; but since we have done so, in respect to one part of it, and since I am under no sort of apprehension of having the mistake rectifyed by giving you possession of any part of Mr Alexander’s Land adjoining you, or the whole, if required next year (unless a death shoud intervene to prevent it) I shoud be glad to know, if, in the meantime you will suffer me to go on and...