1[April 1760] (Washington Papers)
John Posey’s ferry crossed the Potomac River from the lower point of the Mount Vernon neck to Marshall Hall in Charles County, Md., home of Capt. Thomas Hanson Marshall (1731–1801) and his wife Rebecca Dent Marshall (c.1737–1770). By using Posey’s ferry, GW could cut across Charles County, past Port Tobacco, and recross the Potomac, entering Virginia in the Chotank......widow, Ann Alexander...
2Cash Accounts, March 1763 (Washington Papers)
To Robt Alexander for Balle of BondTo Mr [Thomas Hanson] Marshall for Balle of
3Memorandum Books, 1767 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson v. Hanson. Send copy decln.Alexander McCaul
4Cash Accounts, March 1768 (Washington Papers)
To Captn Hanson Marshall for weavingBy Alexander Cleveland in full for his share of Hemp made in 1765
5Cash Accounts, April 1768 (Washington Papers)
To Cash of Mr Hanson MarshallBy Alexander McKenzies Acct
6Memorandum Books, 1769 (Jefferson Papers)
John McCue (Albemarle) v. Alexander Patten (Amherst) and David Kincaid (Augusta). Enter Caveat for 71 acres on a branch of Rockfish river near the Blue mountains adjoining the lands of William Simson and Michael Craft, Amherst. Surveied in 1746. Works never...Alexander Reid junr. (Amherst) v. Lilly Bowen (Augusta). A Caveat already brought. Emploied by Colo. W. Cabell for pl.
7To George Washington from John West, Jr., 26 April 1769 (Washington Papers)
...1768. Martha Price Posey’s first husband, George Harrison, left to her for life his plantation of some two hundred acres neighboring Mount Vernon. In 1757 Posey bought from Thomas Marshall, the father of Thomas Hanson Marshall, a six-acre strip of land along the Potomac adjacent to the Harrison tract that he held through his wife. When Mrs. Posey died in 1768, John West, Jr., who was the...
8[June 1769] (Washington Papers)
...would greet the newly married couple there. Almost everything not mortgaged to GW had been attached by the Fairfax County sheriff to be sold for payment of various debts, and, according to Posey’s son Hanson, the slaves would be without bread in a few days and the horses had nothing to eat at all. Furthermore, several merchants had brought suit against Posey and GW in the county court to...
9To George Washington from Thomas Hanson Marshall, 18 June 1769 (Washington Papers)
...made safe in Regard to the Conveyance, As his Wife is not of Suffiteant Age to Co[n]vey the same, And the Land Under a Strong Intale However that would be Easilly wiped of (heare) was Mrs Alexander of Suffiteant age, On youre Giveing me a suffiteant Indemnification in Regard to Mr Alexanders Land ⟨bein made⟩ over to me &ca when his Wife is Quallified ⟨so to⟩ do, And we can Agree On the...Hanson
10[August 1769] (Washington Papers)
...’s home, Fairfield. Thruston returned to the Frederick Parish vestry in Nov. 1768, accepted an offer of the rectorship, and resigned his post in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, the following month. His “Lady” was Ann Alexander Thruston, his second wife, whom he had married in 1766....s brothers-in-law, married Mary Alexander in 1773. A prominent businessman in Fredericksburg for many...
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...
21Remarks & Occurs. in May [1770] (Washington Papers)
The scantling was being taken for the new mill from the land Thomas Hanson Marshall had agreed to give GW in exchange for the Maryland property GW had bought from Robert Alexander. This was the most convenient location from which to get the timber. However, because Alexander had not yet given Marshall either use of or title to the land in Maryland, the deal was still pending, and GW was obliged...
22[Diary entry: 18 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
The scantling was being taken for the new mill from the land Thomas Hanson Marshall had agreed to give GW in exchange for the Maryland property GW had bought from Robert Alexander. This was the most convenient location from which to get the timber. However, because Alexander had not yet given Marshall either use of or title to the land in Maryland, the deal was still pending, and GW was obliged...
23[July 1770] (Washington Papers)
Mr. Boucher & Major Taylor went away after Breakfast. Mr. Alexander (Robt.) who lodged here Last Night and went over to give Notice to his Tenant of Mr. Marshalls want of part of his Tenement dined here and went home afterwards.Alexander’s notice was a legal warning to the planter who was renting Mrs. Alexander’s Maryland land that before the end of the year he would have to vacate the portion...
24[Diary entry: 25 July 1770] (Washington Papers)
Mr. Boucher & Major Taylor went away after Breakfast. Mr. Alexander (Robt.) who lodged here Last Night and went over to give Notice to his Tenant of Mr. Marshalls want of part of his Tenement dined here and went home afterwards.Alexander’s notice was a legal warning to the planter who was renting Mrs. Alexander’s Maryland land that before the end of the year he would have to vacate the portion...
25To George Washington from Thomas Hanson Marshall, 17 September 1770 (Washington Papers)
For the proposed exchange of Robert Alexander’s land in Maryland for Marshall’s land on Mount Vernon neck, see
26Memorandum Books, 1771 (Jefferson Papers)
Wm. Alexander (Augusta) v. Joshua Coats (Augusta). A caveat entd. for 95. acres or thereabouts on Irish creek Augusta. The pl. hs. pd. the half crown. Recd. £2–15–9.Hanson v. Key. Mr. Ross sais there is a mistake in the writ there being no price affixed to the negroes. If we can do no better take out new writ and value them at 150.£ each and...
27Cash Accounts, March 1771 (Washington Papers)
On 1 Dec. 1767 GW leased to Alexander Fryer one half of the 453–acre tract in Frederick County for which GW had received a grant from Lord Fairfax on 20 Oct. 1750 (Frederick County Deed Book, 12:223–26, .... 1771, GW registered the deeds that he had from Valinda Wade and retained two lawyers, Robert Hanson Harrison and William Ellzey, to bring suit against the Barrys to force a division of...
28[April 1771] (Washington Papers)
At home all day. Lord Fairfax, the two Colo. Fairfax’s, and Mr. Chas. Alexander dind here & went away afterwards....GW attended a meeting of the Fairfax nonimportation committee. At the request of two merchants, Alexander Henderson of Colchester and William Balmain of Alexandria, the committee examined the invoices for cargoes that had recently arrived from Glasgow and ruled that the...
29[April 1772] (Washington Papers)
Dined in Dumfries and reachd home in the Afternoon where I found Mrs. Barnes, Miss Carlyle, Miss Alexander Miss Hunter, Colo. Carlyle & Son & Daughter Nancy.Miss Alexander is probably Mary Ann Alexander, daughter of Gerard and Mary Dent Alexander. The Alexanders’ other daughter, Nancy, was by this time married to Fielding Lewis, Jr. (will of Gerard Alexander, 9 Aug. 1760, Fairfax County Wills,...
30Memorandum Books, 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
Alexander Wm. Augusta. Wrote to him.Alexander v. Haines. Recd. 8/3.
31[January 1773] (Washington Papers)
Dined at Belvoir and returnd in the Afternoon. Found Mr. Grafton Dulany, Mr. Ben. Gallaway, Mr. Sam Hanson & Mr. Magowan and Doctr. Rumney here., 325). Benjamin Galloway, son of Samuel Galloway of Tulip Hill, Anne Arundel County, Md., lived at Hagerstown, Md. Samuel Hanson, son of Samuel Hanson of Green Hill (b. 1719) and Ann Hawkins Hanson, usually called himself Samuel Hanson of Samuel, in...
32[January 1774] (Washington Papers)
Fox hunting with Mr. George Digges, Mr. Robt. Alexr. & Peake who all dind here, together with Mr. Jas. Cleveland. In the Afternoon all went home but Mr. Alexander. At home all day. Mr. Alexander went home after Breakfast. Mr. Benjn. Dulany Mr. Peale & Mr. Cox came here to Dinner, & stayd all Night.
33To George Washington from William Preston, 7 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
. The surveying expedition led by John Floyd (1750–1783), formerly a schoolteacher in Preston’s family and now an assistant surveyor of Fincastle County, consisted of Floyd, James Douglas, Thomas Hanson, Alexander Spotswood Dandridge, Isaac Hite, James Knox, Roderick McCrea, and Mordecai Batson. Thomas Hanson left a journal of the expedition (see
34Fairfax County Resolves, 18 July 1774 (Washington Papers)
Two more resolutions were added at the 18 July Fairfax County meeting: “25th Resolved, That George Washington Esqr., John West, George Mason, William Ramsay, William Rumney, George Gilpin, Robt. Hanson Harrison, John Carlyle, Robt. Adam, John Dalton, Philip Alexander, James Kirk, Wm. Brown, Chas. Broadwater, William Payne, Martin Cockburn, Lee Massey, William Hartshorne, Thos. Triplet, Charles
35To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 5 August 1774 (Washington Papers)
John Dalton, a leading merchant of Alexandria, is listed among the twenty-five members of the county committee in the Fairfax County Resolves, 18 July. Williamson and Alexander Henderson are not listed. For a possible identification of Williamson, see [Rind; Williamsburg], 21 July 1774). Harrison and Grayson are probably Robert Hanson Harrison and William Grayson.
36To George Washington from Thomson Mason, 15 March 1775 (Washington Papers)
singular Act of Kindness, if You will contrive to me on your Return by my Friend Mr Robert Hanson Harrison of Alexandria or Mr Alexander Henderson of Colchester. I sincerely wish You an agreeable Convention, and am Dear Sir with the greatest Respect Your most obedt humble Servant
37To George Washington from Fairfax Independent Company, 25 April 1775 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s hand, ...“A Size Roll of the Independant Company of Alexandria” containing fifty-six names, largely of prominent Alexandria and Fairfax County citizens. Among those named are Peter Wagener, Jr., Charles Broadwater, Lund Washington, Daniel McCarty, Robert Alexander, and Martin Cockburn.
38From George Washington to the Officers of Five Virginia Independent Companies, 20 June 1775 (Washington Papers)
Copy, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, .
The cover is addressed “To The Independant Companies of Fairfax—Prince William—Fauquier—Spotsylvania & Richmond.” Robert Hanson Harrison, who later became GW’s secretary, was a subaltern in the Fairfax Independent Company. GW’s original letter apparently was delivered to the Fairfax officers, who had copies made
...in the supplement to Alexander...
39[September 1775] (Adams Papers)
Mr. Smith, Mr. Imlay and Mr. Hanson, breakfasted with us. Smith is an Englishman, Imlay and Hanson N. Yorkers.I went in the Bull Dog Captn. Alexander Commander. Mr. Hillegas, Mr. Owen Biddle, and Mr. Rittenhouse, and Capt. Faulkner
40To George Washington from Lund Washington, 29 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
...Cty a great many of them are taken out of our Company 40 I believe altogether for the Minute Service & Militia, I believe the Captns for the militia are Gilpin, Harrison, Phil: & Gerrard Alexander, Triplett, (Thos) Moody, Dulany, Ed. payne, James Wren, Pollard, Waggoner, Cockburn, John Seale, John Hunter, and one more which I cannot recollect the remains of our Company with several others...
41[November 1775] (Adams Papers)
John HansonCharles Alexander.
42[List of Persons Suitable for Naval Commands, November 1775] (Adams Papers)
John HansonCharles Alexander.
43To George Washington from Lund Washington, 24 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
The letter sent by Robert Hanson Harrison was the one of 15 Oct., and the letter sent by Martha Washington was the one of 14 November. The previous Sunday was 19 November., 16 Nov., and Alexander Purdie’s
44From George Washington to Colonel Alexander McDougall, 4 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing,
45To George Washington from Lund Washington, 17 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
GW’s letter to Lund Washington of 25 Dec. 1775 has not been found. Thomas Hanson Marshall (1731–1801), who lived across the Potomac River
GW to Robert Alexander, 20 Mar. 1777
46From George Washington to Major General Charles Lee, 23 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, GW to Alexander McDougall, 13 Jan.
47To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Rufus Putnam, 11 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
. Those shortages were alleviated by the cannon and mortars recently brought from Ticonderoga by Henry Knox and the shot and shells sent from New York City by Alexander McDougall....inspecting the Dorchester area on this date. “His Excellency with Coll Gridley & Col. Knox,” Robert Hanson Harrison wrote to Artemas Ward early today, “will be at your Quarters at 10 OClock this morning in...
48From George Washington to Colonel Alexander McDougall, 7 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing,
49From George Washington to the New York Provincial Congress, 7 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
50From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee on Fortifying Ports, 8 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,