51From George Washington to Lund Washington, 29 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 19th which came to hand by the last Post gives a melancholy acct of your prospects for a Crop—& a still more melancholy one of the decay of public spirit, & virtue—The first I submit to with the most perfect resignation and chearfulness—I look upon every dispensation of Providence as designed to answer some valuable purpose, and hope I shall always possess a sufficient...
52From George Washington to Lund Washington, 17 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
Extract of a Letter wrote to Mr Lund Washington 17th Augt 1779. “Sometime ago (but how long I can not remember) you applied to me to know if you should receive payment of Genl Mercer’s Bonds—& after this, of the bond due from the deceased Mr Mercers Estate to me; and was, after animadverting a little upon the subject, authorized to do so—of course I presume the money has been received. I have...
53From George Washington to Lund Washington, 14 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 25th Ulto which ought to have come by the last Post, & the one of the 1st Instt, both came to my hands yesterday. Two reasons induced me to except the Mercers when I desired you to decline receiving payment of any more old Bonds —the one was, a presumption that theirs actually were paid—the other that you might be under obligation or promise to receive them, & I never choose...
54From George Washington to Lund Washington, 12 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Lund Washington, 12 Feb. 1780. On 25 Feb. , GW wrote to James Mercer: “On the 12th Instt I wrote to Mr Lund Washington.”
55From George Washington to Lund Washington, 11 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
As I stand in need of bette⟨r⟩ advice & assistance in the chancery suit depending between Mr James Mercer & the persons for whom I am acting as Attorney than my own knowledge of these kind of proceedings is capable of affording I laid the paper⟨s⟩ you forwarded to me relative to this business before Colo. Harrison for his aid. The Memorandums, contained in the form of a letter from him to...
56From George Washington to Lund Washington, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Letter which incloses this, did not go off so soon as I expected. I received no letter from you by the last Post. I have ordered a Chariot to be made in Phila. The price £210 in specie, or Paper equivalent—have you any ways or means of coming at the former by your traffic with Mr Hooe or others? The difference between Specie and Paper in Phila. some little time ago was 60 or 70—I have...
57From George Washington to Lund Washington, 19 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 10th came to hand last night. I have not yet had leizure to look into the Papers relative to Mercers business; & when I shall, is more than I am, at this moment, able to say, as new scenes are beginning to unfold themselves, which will by no means lessen my present trouble, or attention—You ask how I am to be rewarded for all this? There is one reward that nothing can...
58From George Washington to Lund Washington, 17 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received no letter from you for sometime, which I attribute to your late Journey to Philadelphia. Within these two days we have received an acct of two Fleets—the one very agreeable—the other much the reverse. The French arrived at Rhode Island the 11th—but in what force either of Men or war-Transports—or Troops—I have not yet learnt. the British, consisting of 6 Ships of the line,...
59From George Washington to Lund Washington, 28 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
Since my last, your letter of the 14th Instt is received. If Mr Triplet has got as much Land as he has given, & you have paid him the cash difference with a proper allowance for the depreciation since the bargain was made, I am at a loss to discover the ground of his complaint—and if men will complain without cause, it is a matter of no great moment. it always was, and now is my wish to do him...
60From George Washington to Lund Washington, 30 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 18th came to me by the last Post. I am very sorry to hear of your loss—I am a little sorry to hear of my own—but that which gives most concern, is, that you should go on board the enemys vessels & furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me, to have heard, that in consequence of your non compliance with their request, they had burnt...
61From George Washington to Lund Washington, 31 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I returned last Saturday from a conference with the Counte de Rochambeau at Weathersfield, on Connecticut River, & found your letter of the 9th Instt; & the last Post brought me another of the 16th. We have heard nothing yet of the detachment (consisting of about 2000 men) which left New York the 13th Instt, nor do we know whether those Troops were bound for Virginia, North or South Carolina,...
62From George Washington to Lund Washington, 8 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 12th & 19th Ulto are now before me, unacknowledged, & this being Post day, will probably produce a third if not a fourth, as I missed one by the last Post and understood that no letters further So. than Annapolis were received in the Mail. I beg you to examine my Papers, & send me those which relate to the Tract on which Simpson lives, which I think consists of five Surveys...
63From George Washington to Lund Washington, 6 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
If the bearer Baren de Closen an aide de camp to Count Rochambeau, Should call at Mount Vernon, I request you will treat him with every civility in your power & furnish him with everything he may require. I am Dr Sir yr Friend &c. NhD .
64From George Washington to Lund Washington, 8 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have not been able to discover, from any enquiries I could make—while I was in Philadelphia—that it was necessary to do any thing with the inclosed, to secure the Title—& therefore return them; with the Patents for my Land on which Simpson lives; to be deposited with my Papers. Some indeed were of opinion that yours, as well as other Patents of a similar nature, & under like circumstances,...
65From George Washington to Lund Washington, 21 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
My last letter would have informed you, that I was disappointed in my application at Philadelphia for money, & that I have given up all thoughts of purchasing Dows Land. Since then, I have met with an offer of £2000 York Currency, for which—if I take it, I shall have to pay at the rate of 7 ⅌ per annum, interest. Under this disadvantage and the difficulty I may experience in procuring money...
66From George Washington to Lund Washington, 21 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Letter which will be enclosed with this will inform you that since my letter by the last Post I have had the offer of £2000 York Currency & the terms of it—But before you Strike any bargain with Dow & Co. for their Land, I would have you view it critically, & form your own judgment of the quality of it. To do this with any degree of accuracy you must estimate the quantity of improved &...
67From George Washington to Lund Washington, 25 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I approve of your conduct with respect to Dows Land and am very glad you have bought it whether I get Dulany’s or not; as I have no idea of loosing by it if it will Rent for £120 ⅌ Ann.—which is more than the Virginia Interest of the Sum given, though less than what I am to pay for the loan of it in this State. This circumstance, independant of the desire I have to repay the Money borrowed in...
68From George Washington to Lund Washington, 12 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 29th of Jany came by the last Post—You do not seem to have considered the force & tendency of the words of yr letter, when you talk of the probability only of sending me "the long promised account" "the irregularity of them"—not you add "for want of knowledge in keeping them but neglect. " "your aversion to writing &ca &ca. " —These are but other words for saying, "as I am...
69From George Washington to Lund Washington, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I did not write to you by the last Post—I was too much engaged at that time, in counteracting a most insiduous attempt to disturb the repose of the Army, & sow the seeds of discord between the Civil & military powers of the continent, to attend to small matters. The Author of this attempt, whoever he may be, is yet behind the Curtain; and as conjectures might be wrong, I shall be silent at...
70From George Washington to Lund Washington, 6 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
By the last Post I informed you of my intended meeting with Sir Guy Carleton for settling, among other things, a plan for restoring the Negros and other property belonging to the Citizens of the United States. This meeting I have held; & tho it has been interrupted by the indisposition of Sir Guy, which has, this morning, carried him back to New York; yet, I have collected enough to convince...
71From George Washington to Lund Washington, 11 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
I do not blame you for the wages which you gave Evans; I have no doubt of your having engaged him upon as good terms as you could, and as it was my wish to have the work forwarded, this was all I had a right to expect. In one of your letters (speaking of the difficulty of getting workmen) you recommend it to me to engage some of the Enemy who were prisoners with us—Many of whom you say, are...
72From George Washington to Lund Washington, 13 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 30th Ulto with a Catalogue of my Books—When you go next to Abingdon, see if there is any there with my name or Arms in them, & forwd the list. I am truly unfortunate that after all the expence I have been at about my House, I am to encounter the third Edition, with the trouble & inconvenience of another cover to it, after my return. That there can have been...
73From George Washington to Lund Washington, 20 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
Mrs Custis has never suggested in any of her Letters to Mrs Washington (unless ardent wishes for her return, that she might then disclose it to her, can be so construed) the most distant attachment to D.S.— but if this should be the case, and she wants advice upon it; a Father Mother, who are at hand, & competent to give it, are at the same time most proper to be consulted on so interesting an...
74From George Washington to Lund Washington, 20 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
I know as little of G:W.s plans or wishes as you do, never having exchanged a word with him upon the subject in my life. By his Advertisemt—& from what has frequently dropped from Fanny, he is desireous of getting a place in this Country to live at. Before their marriage he & Fanny were both told that it would be very agreeable to Mrs W. & myself, that they should make this House their home...
75From George Washington to Lund Washington, 20 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
Having come to a fixed determination (whatever else may be left undone) to attend to the business of my plantations; and having enquired of Geo: Washington how far it would be agreeable to him & his wife to make this place a permanent residence, (for before it was only considered as their temporary abode, until some plan could be settled for them) & finding it to comport with their...
76From George Washington to Lund Washington, 7 May 1787 (Washington Papers)
Company, and several other matters which pressed upon me yesterday, and which has obliged me to postpone my gourney a day longer is the reason why I did not acknowledge the receipt of your letter by Ned. I need not tell you, because a moments recurrance to your own accounts will evince the fact, that there is no source from which I derive more then a sufficienty for the daily calls of my...
77From George Washington to Lund Washington, 11 April 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Lund Washington, 11 April 1790. In a letter to GW, 28 April 1790 , Lund Washington refers to “Yours of the 11th.”
78From George Washington to Lund Washington, 9 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Doctr Tate being among those who had fled from the City during the raging of the Yellow fever I was unable to lay the Statement of your case before him till his return when he sent the enclosed opinion with a request that I would read, & forward it to you. As soon as I had done so, I sent Mr Dandridge to his lodgings in order to desire him to proceed immediately to Alexandria in the Stage of...
79From George Washington to Lund Washington, 19 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have sent money to Mr Pearce for the purpose of discharging & taking in my Bond. On my Books, kept in my absence from Mount Vernon by my de⟨ceas⟩ed nephew Geo. A. Washington, were articles charged to you as pr the acct No. 1 enclosed amounting to £⟨18.18.8⟩—The cash payments in discharge of the Bond are cont⟨ain⟩ed ⟨in⟩ the acct marked No. 2. On the first, as it was an open acct, no interest...