1From George Washington to Robert Brooke, 16 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
Ever since the General Assembly of Virginia were pleased to submit to my disposal fifty shares in the Potomak, and one hundred in the James River company, it has been my anxious desire to appropriate them to an object, most worthy of public regard. It is with indescribable regret that I have seen the youth of the United States migrating to foreign countries, in order to acquire the higher...
2From George Washington to Robert Brooke, 15 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Commonwealth of Virginia, having manifested their approbation of my design, to apply the hundred shares in the James River Company, which they had before put at my disposal, to the use of a Siminary to be erected in such part of the State as they should deem most proper; and in consequence of this reference to their opinion, the Legislature having requested me to appropriate them to a...