1To George Washington from James Henry, 16 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
permit me to intrude upon your more important avocations, for a moment, and to inclose to you a Copy of a letter from Col. Buford to the Virga assembly, which your Friend Col. B. Harrison, has requested me to forward to you. I wish I could send you better tidings; but ’tis necessary to know the danger, to enable us to make more effectual preparations to avert it. With every wish for your...
2To George Washington from James Henry, 2 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
I am under the necessity of giving you some trouble about an affair, which you could have no reason to suppose ever to hear of again. ’tis this. When you executed a Deed to the late Mr J.P. Custis for the King and Queen Lands, where I now live, notwithstanding the Number of Gentlemen who were called upon to attest that Transaction, yet not more than one of them could be procured to prove the...