1February—1785 (Washington Papers)
The two doctors are Dr. Walter Hanson Jenifer and Dr. Daniel Jenifer, Jr. (1756–c.1809), of Maryland, sons of Daniel and Elizabeth Hanson Jenifer (see ...day. Prevented going on with it, first by the coming in of Mr. Michael Stone about 10 oclock (who went away before noon)—then by the arrival of Colo. Hooe, Mr. Chas. Alexander, & Mr. Chs. Lee before dinner and Mr. Crawford, his Bride &...
2March 1785 (Washington Papers)
...White House on Pamunkey River after their marriage, had both wanted to return to the Mount Vernon—Mount Airy neighborhood. In 1778 Jacky bought this house and about 900 acres of land from Robert Alexander, agreeing to pay him £12 per acre, the principal and compound interest to be paid in 24 years. GW was horrified at this latest example of his stepson’s fecklessness and reminded him that “...
3April—1785 (Washington Papers)
Mr. Hanson went away after breakfast.: Walter Hanson Jenifer.
4November [1785] (Washington Papers)
Alexander Skinner (1743–1788) served as head of the military hospital at Suffolk in 1776. He later served as surgeon of the 1st Virginia Regiment and of Lee’s Legion.Mr. Saml. Hanson and his wife, Mr. Thos. Hanson and their two sisters, & Mrs. Dulany wife to Waltr. Dulany, lately from England came to Dinner, & stayed all Night.
5[Diary entry: 25 November 1785] (Washington Papers)
Mrs. Dade was probably Parthenia Alexander Massey Dade, widow of Townshend Dade (d.1781), and the aunt of GW’s neighbor, Robert Alexander. GW’s two nephews boarded at Mrs. Dade’s house in Alexandria until Jan. 1787, when they were moved to the home of Samuel Hanson of Samuel ( ...206, 229). Hanson had difficulties with the boys and eventually they were removed to the care of GW’s old friend, Dr....
6December [1785] (Washington Papers)
: James Fairlie (d. 1830), a major and aide-de-camp to Baron von Steuben during the Revolution, had brought GW letters from Alexander Hamilton (25 Nov. 1785, Alexander McDougall (1732–1786), a Scottish emigrant, was a prosperous New York merchant. He had been a leading radical in New York before
7To George Washington from Robert Edge Pine, 16 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
P.S. I may be found at Judge Hanson’s Annapolis—Coll Rogers’s Baltimore—or at the State House Philadelphia.Alexander Contee Hanson (1749–1806), who had served on GW’s staff in 1776, was at this time a judge of the Maryland General Court and lived on Church Street in Annapolis. Nicholas Rogers of Druid Hill, Md., served...
8[Diary entry: 21 December 1785] (Washington Papers)
Mr. Danl. Dulany (son of Danl.) Mr. Benja. Dulany, Messrs. Saml. & Thos. Hanson, Mr. Philp. Alexander, and a Mr. Mounsher came here to Dinner and Stayed all Night.This Alexander was either Philip Alexander (died c.1790), son of Gerard Alexander (d. 1761), of the “Robert” Alexanders, or Philip Alexander (b. 1742), son of Philip Alexander of the “Philip” branch. The second Philip served Fairfax...
9February 1786 (Washington Papers)
...York City after the war, Wooldrige belonged to the firms of Wooldrige & Kelly and Kelly, Lot & Co., which engaged in West Indian trade. Wooldrige was in financial straits in 1786, for on 20 July 1786 Alexander Hamilton wrote to him concerning ways to satisfy his creditors. The following year Wooldrige was imprisoned in New York City for debts (
10March 1786 (Washington Papers)
Alexander Nesbitt (d. 1791) and John Maxwell Nesbitt (c.1728–1802) were sons of Jonathan Nesbitt of Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland. The brothers established themselves as merchants after emigrating to Philadelphia: Alexander with Walter Stewart in the dry goods house of Stewart & Nesbitt, and John with a distant relative, Redmond Conyngham, in the mercantile firm of Conyngham, Nesbitt &...
11To George Washington from Alexander Steel, 18 May 1786 (Washington Papers)
..., and our Confiscating the Property of Loyalists and Toryes alone induced him alterining his Will; Dubious we shou’d be Conquered, and in the Body of His will says to my Eldest son Alexander Steel I leave One Shilling for his being an Officer in the Rebell Army; I therefore most respectfully hope your Excellency: will pardon my presuming to request relative to my Conduct if an application...
12To James Madison from Charles Thomson, 15 September 1786 (Madison Papers)
, XXVIII, 361 n.; XXXI, 642). JM was one of nine arbiters selected on 13 Sept. 1785, but only two men actually became involved—Alexander Contee Hanson and Robert Goldsborough, Jr. Indeed, the two states finally settled the dispute in April 1787 without further federal intervention. JM may have made the four pages of notes from Alexander Hewatt’s
13From George Washington to Robert Alexander, 14 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
Robert Alexander (d. 1793) of Alexandria was the son of Col. Gerard Alexander (d. 1761).For the land deal in which GW in the fall of 1769 advanced Robert Alexander £500 to purchase land in Charles County, Md., see
14To George Washington from Samuel Hanson, 18 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
Hanson wrote GW on 23 September.The brothers George Steptoe Washington and Lawrence Augustine Washington had been studying at William Mc Whir’s academy in Alexandria since November 1785 and living in Hanson’s house since January 1787. GW replied from Mount Vernon on 24 Nov.: “Sir, I am sorry it is not convenient for you to board my Nephews any longer—Mr Lear is desired to see what can...
15To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 15 February 1788 (Madison Papers)
Will you take the trouble of mentioning to the hon. Mr. Contee from Maryland that Judge Hanson sent me a large pacquet of Pamphlets for him which I sent on yesterday. Mr. Hanson writes me there is no doubt in Maryland, and tho [he] considers the Opposition in Virga. as very powerful, he says he is well grounded in assuring me of its final Success there.“Judge Hanson”—Alexander Contee Hanson—was...
16March [1788] (Washington Papers)
Went with Mrs. Washington to Alexandria. Visited Captn. Conway Doctr. Craik, Colo. Saml. Hanson, Mr. Murray, & Mr. Porter with the last of whom we dined. Returned in the Eve.Samuel Hanson of Samuel had served as a lieutenant colonel of the Charles County, Md., militia during the Revolution ( ...Hanson’s home in April of this year where they remained until April 1789 when they went to live...
17To George Washington from Samuel Hanson, 23 March 1788 (Washington Papers)
The boys lived with Mrs. Parthenia Alexander Massey Dade in 1785 when they first enrolled at the Alexandria Academy.The child Lawrence Augustine Washington whipped was probably Maria Hanson (b. 1781).
18To James Madison from Alexander Contee Hanson, 2 June 1788 (Madison Papers)
of 8 May carried a notice, dated 6 May, by “One of the Committee” (Hanson) announcing a forthcoming reply to the address of the minority. This reply, no doubt for the reasons Hanson suggested, did not appear in the Maryland papers, and JM evidently did not attempt to get it published in Richmond. Hanson’s draft is printed in
19To George Washington from Samuel Hanson, 2 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
Samuel Hanson, who served as a lieutenant colonel of the Charles County, Md., militia during the Revolution, was a merchant in Alexandria and a trustee of the Alexandria Academy. The two boys mentioned in Hanson’s letter are George Steptoe and Lawrence Washington, the sons of GW’s deceased brother Samuel (see ...and boarded them with Parthenia Alexander Massey Dade, widow of Townshend Dade (d....
20To George Washington from John Eager Howard, 23 January 1789 (Washington Papers)
...on 21 Jan. 1789 proclaiming that Joshua Seney, Daniel Carroll, Benjamin Contee, George Gale, William Smith, and Michael Jenifer Stone were elected to the House of Representatives from Maryland. John Rogers, George Plater, William Tilghman, Alexander Contee Hanson, Philip Thomas, Robert Smith, William Richardson,
21To George Washington from George Steptoe Washington, 19 February 1789 (Washington Papers)
...I would not have troubled you with could ⟨they have⟩ been dispensed with; for knowing the embarrassment under which our estates labour at present upon account of that debt which it owes to Mr Alexander; and that it is intirely by your goodness that we are enabled to remaine in Town; I should think my self very unjustifiable in requesting any thing but what was really necessary. The...
22To George Washington from William Lyles, 3 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
I will in the following terms Settle and discharge the debt due from Mr Robert Alexander to your Excellency, on which their is now a Suit depending, and in which, I am his special Bail. On Mr Wm HuntersLyles’s letter concerns GW’s protracted dispute with his neighbor and foxhunting companion Robert Alexander (d. 1793). As early as 1760 GW had approached another of his neighbors, Thomas Hanson...