491From George Washington to Reuben Harvey, 25 August 1784 (Washington Papers)
Captain Stickney has presented me with your favor of the 25th of May—together with the mess-beef & ox tongues, for which you will please to accept my best thanks. I do not raise Tobacco on my Estate nor am I possessed of a pound at this time; otherwise I would with pleasure consign a few Hogsheads to your address, under full persuasion, that no person would do me more justice in the sale of...
492From George Washington to John Harvie, 10 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
After an absence of almost nine years from home, & a total suspension, as it were to all my private concerns during that period, I am now endeavouring to obtain a knowledge of my Affairs & to put my business in some kind of order again. The deranged situation of my papers (occasioned by frequent hasty removals of them out of the enemy’s reach) makes it more difficult to affect these, than it...
493From George Washington to John Harvie, 29 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
I have received, & thank you for your obliging favor of the 21st in answer to my letter of the 10th—I will write to the Surveyors of Augusta & Botetourt for information in those matters which the Land office is unable to give me: for sure I am, I have warrants somewhere which ought, long ’ere this, to have been executed. The two Surveys of which you sent me copies, I should be glad to have...
494From George Washington to John Harvie, 18 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
By a further research into my papers, I have found—with a letter from Colo. Fielding Lewis (which it shou’d seem must have come to this place after I had accepted the command of the Army & was gone to Cambridge)—the Survey which I now enclose, as I also do the letter alluded to, as it will account for its delay in reaching the Land office ’till now. As I recollect well that Michael Cresap &...
495From George Washington to John Harvie, 31 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
I am informed that a patent (in consequence of a Certificate from Commrs appointed to enquire into, & decide upon Claims for settlement of the Western Lands) is about to issue to the heirs of Michl Cresap, from the Land Office of this Commonwealth, for a tract of land on the river Ohio formerly in Augusta County, now commonly called & distinguished by the round bottom: against granting which...
496From George Washington to John Harvie, 19 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
If I recollect right, I mentioned when I had the pleasure of seeing you at Mr Jones’s the first of last October, that I was reduced to the necessity of bringing ejectments against sundry persons who had taken possession of a tract of Land which I hold, not far from Fort Pitt in the State of Pennsylvania, by Patent under this Governmt for 2813 acres. I have lately received a letter from my...
497From George Washington to Samuel Haven, 10 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
Although I gave the greatest credence to your acct of the talents & good behaviour of Mr Lear, yet before I subscribed to them, I was desirous of a little time to form my own judgment of both. To this, and this only, you will be pleased to attribute my not acknowledging the receipt of your favor of the 6th of May, at an earlier period. It is with pleasure I now inform you, that the deportment...
498From George Washington to Josias Hawkins, 27 February 1786 (Washington Papers)
At the request of Mr Booth, I give you the trouble of this letter. This request, added to an inclination to do justice, must be my apology, for I have no motive but to rescue his character from the injurious aspersions which he says has been cast it. My acquaintance with Mr Booth is of more than 30 years standing. I have known him in the characters of Batchelor, husband, & widower; in all of...
499From George Washington to Udny Hay, 31 January 1785 (Washington Papers)
The interruption of the Post, by the frost, will occasion a delay of this answer, which otherwise would have been avoided. Not being able to decypher the name of the Merchant in London, to whose care you desired my letter to your brother might be addressed, I send the enclosed certificate for him, under cover to you. I thank you for your kind and friendly wishes, & with Mrs Washington’s...
500From George Washington to Ebenezer Hazard, 18 May 1784 (Washington Papers)
I have, before I leave the City, to thank you for the obliging expressions of your letter of the 11th. I perswade myself you will have the goodness to notify the Postmasters in the different States, that letters franked by me are to pass free. otherwise, being unacquainted with the resolve of Congress, my corrispondents may incur the expence of Postage contrary to my expectation, & the good...