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From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 26 April 1798

To Tobias Lear

Mount Vernon 26th April 1798

Dear Sir,

If Stuart can spare a Steer, you may keep the one you got from thence and pay for him in kine.

Fishing, hitherto, has been very unsuccessful at my landing. More were caught last night and this morning (since I have not heard from thence) than in the same space at any time before since it commenced; & unless it continues for some days my expences will not be reimbursed.

Have you written to Cornelius? What answer? It is necessary for me to know whether I am to depend upon him, or not.1 I am glad to hear the boys are well—my love to them. I am Your Affectionate

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1. GW wrote Lear on 10 Sept. 1797 about hiring the carpenter Cornelius McDermott Roe to work on a building for his distillery which he was then about to begin constructing near his mill. See also Lear to GW, 27 April.

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    From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 26 April 1798
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    Washington, George
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    Lear, Tobias
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    26 April 1798

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    “From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 26 April 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0178. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 2 January 1798 – 15 September 1798, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 248–249.]

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