31To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 26 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I received a Letter lately from Doctor Sa. who lives in No. Carolina wherein he expresses his Expectation that we would discontinue the Suit again him as Mrs Savage he says has been so long dead, and offers to pay Yr Excellency what Sums you have been so kind as to advance her. I wrote to him in Answer that I did not know certainly or would take Advice what should be done in this Case; but...
32To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 22 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I rece’d Your Excellencys Favor of the 5th of Febry a few days ago, and encouraged by Yr offer inclose another Letter to Lord Fairfax, supposing it cannot be improper to inform a Person abroad of any Act that may essentially affect his Interest, as a Law is supposed to be a matter of public Notoriety. Yet in this I refer myself to Yr Excellencys determination. I have written to Mr Randolph...
33To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 19 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received Your Excellency’s Favor of the 15th of June. When I wrote my last Letter we had not then received any certain Accounts of the conclusion of the Peace, tho’ we did a few days afterwards by hearing of the Arrival of the french Cutter at Philadelphia. Some months ago there was a Hint given me of an Intention of building a Mill on Difficult, but whether I was told that there would...
34To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 4 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to Your Excellency about ten days ago relating to the building a Mill on Difficult, and mentioned the Hint that had also been given to me about it, but that I had not been able to learn that there was any such design and also my Opinion that it would not be done without my concurrence, which would not be had. Since which I have had another Hint from the same Hand, with an application...
35To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 9 January 1786 (Washington Papers)
I have sent the Bearer for a few Slips of the weeping willow You were so kind as to offer me, as well as to ask your Advice, in case I should not have an opportunity hereafter, where an Execution should be sent vs Dr Savage’s Estate. I have brot up with me a copy of the decree whereby we are at Liberty to proceed at Law upon the Judgement obtained. I must apply to the Clerk’s office for a...
36To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 7 February 1786 (Washington Papers)
I received the Favor of Yr Letter from the Great Falls —and was sorry that I did not hear of your being there till after your departure as I should certainly have done myself the pleasure of waiting on You, especially as I had had thoughts from time to time of taking a Ride there. I was the more concerned to hear of your setting off at Night, and was a little afraid that your delicacy in...
37To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 16 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
This is to acknowledge Your Favor in sending me an Accot of my Brother’s Will and also the Receipt of the Watch by Mr Muse. It can’t be expected that You should act as an Executor upon this Occasion amidst that multiplicity of Business you are engaged in. In a few Instances I was so circumstanced that I could not comply with Ld Fx’s desire as well as my Brother’s tho’ I had a great Regard for...
38To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 7 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
According to your desire I have written to Mrs Bomford and have informed her of the State of the Suit against Doctor Savage. The delays have been such that I don’t wonder at her Surprise in not yet having heard of the Issue of it. The Day I left Mt Vernon last Winter I spoke to the Lawyer (who had the Management of the Cause after I had taken it out of the hands of the other who had done...
39To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 4 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 19th of March I received in due time, and have written to Mr Potts, to inform him, that no Money had been received—that there had been a great Remissness in the Prosecution of the Suit—that a few days before I had received Your Letter I had been speaking to a Gentleman of the Law whom I engaged last Summer to join with the one who had been before employed in the Room of one...
40To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 17 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
As I have always experienced the Sincerity of your Friendship and as on that Account I lay myself open to You more than to any man I now make a little Apology to you in order to make my Mind at ease in regard to a little Incident I am about to mention. Such is my Regard that I have some times been uneasy lest you should be displeased with me. And I remember in particular about 10 or 12 years...
41To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 19 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have received the Letter which You have done me the Kindness to write, tho’ unexpected; and received it as another Instance of your long Friendship; and was also pleased at Your entire submission to the will of Heaven in Your late afflictive Loss, tho’ it was no more than I expected. For having encountered & surmounted many & various Difficulties & disappointments, and believing in a...
42To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 4 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have received Your Favor with the Letters inclosed but I did not receive it till last Week, owing to my not knowing that there was a Letter for me in the Office till it had lain there some time, and I then being from Home did not get it immediately, nor for some days, thro’ a mistake also on Accot of another Letter that had come to the Office for me in the mean time. And since, I have waited...
43To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 16 December 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Bryan Fairfax, 16 Dec. 1795 . On 3 Jan. 1796, GW wrote Fairfax: “Your favor of the 16th Ulto came safe.”
44To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 15 May 1798 (Washington Papers)
I have received the Packet with your kind Letter. This late Instance of your Friendship has increased my Gratitude which has continued more or less for many years. I return you many thanks and all the acknowledgements I can make, and now on my departure, I may venture to say that I have not ceased almost daily to pray for you for more than twenty years. I have experienced the uncertainty of a...
45To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 17 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
The further detention that our Ship has met with here gives me the Leisure to write to You a few Lines before we take our final Departure. It has been to me a very tedious time—indeed I have not for many years past had such an Exercise of Patience as I have had for the last four or five weeks; first from the delays in setting out when I was anxious to apply the remedy that I thought my health...
46To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 7 July 1798 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to You another long Letter from London which I put into the Post Office to go by the next Packet to New-York, since which I have taken a Journey to this City, and having delivered your kind Letter of introduction to Mr Strictland, have been very civilly treated by him—He desired me to present his respects to You—He remembers meeting me three years ago between George town and...
47To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 21–23 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to You from Hampton Road rather a long Letter giving a detail of naval Occurrencies, and put the Letter into the Hands of the Pilot who promised to have it sent to Mt Vernon, and intended on my Arrival to go on with an Account of the same kind, but the night after my arrival I became so unwell & continued in such a State of Depression for many days that I was scarce able to write to my...
48To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 28 April 1799 (Washington Papers)
I was much pleased last week in receiving Your Favor of the 20th January by the Hands of Mr Dandridge. And tho’ I am thinking now of my Return, and with anxious expectation of being able to set off in a few weeks yet I could not omit acknowledging the Receipt of it, so sensible am I of the Favor you continue to do me. I am very glad to find that some of the Letters I mustered up resolution...
49To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 28 November 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Bryan Fairfax, 28 Nov. 1799. In a letter to Fairfax of 30 Nov. , GW refers to Fairfax’s “favour of the 28th Instt.”