1To George Washington from Elizabeth Whiting, 12 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
You will no doubt be surpriz’d to receive a letter from one entirely unknown to you, on a Subject that after a long conflict I have ventured to address you—the unfortunate situation to which I am reduced in the decline of life with two young Sons and a neice I have long had under my care, impels me to ask relief of a stranger, as I have liv’d to se my family sink before me, and have ⟨no⟩...