1From George Washington to Thomas Marshall, 3 May 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Marshall, 3 May. On 12 May Marshall wrote GW : “Your favor of the 3d Inst. I received by my Son.”
2To George Washington from Thomas Marshall, 12 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 3d Inst. I receiv’d by my Son & will with the greatest pleasure execute the small commission you are pleas’d to honor me with, by collecting & sending you the different seeds agreable to the list you inclos’d me. The Crown imperial —Tulip bearing Lawrel, & Cardinal flower, I am not acquainted with, but shall I dont doubt find them out by enquiry. In consiquence of a...
3To George Washington from Thomas Marshall, 19 May 1786 (Washington Papers)
I have made inquiry concerning your entry which Mr Hite mentioned to you & can find nothing of it—I believe he must have been misstaken—I have seen him and ask’d him concerning it, but he can tell me nothing more about it than that he thought he had seen such a one. Your warrant I have put into the hands of Mr John Obannon, formerly a Neighbor of mine, and now one of the Military Surveyors. He...
4To George Washington from Thomas Marshall, 27 October 1787 (Washington Papers)
I have brought with me from Kentuckey for you some of the different specias of wild rhye, a few of the Coffee nuts, Buckeye, the seeds of the Papaw-apple, a few acrons of an excellent Specias of the white oak, larger & finer timber than I ever before saw & different from any I have seen elsewhere. I have sent you also some of the natural grass seed of that country it is of a very luxurient...
5To George Washington from Thomas Marshall, 12 February 1789 (Washington Papers)
Fayette County [District of Ky.] Dear General 12th Feby 1789 The nature of the subject upon which I do myself the honor to address you will I hope be admitted as an excuse for the trouble you will have in reading this letter. The political situation of this western country appears to me to be something crittical & there therefore I have undertaken tho’ reluctantly to give you a state of facts...
6From George Washington to Thomas Marshall, 27 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your letter dated the 12th of February—If I was greatly alarmed at the nature of the transactions mentioned in it, I was not less obliged to you for communicating so clear an account of them. It is true I had previously received some verbal and written informations on the subject of a similar tenor; but none which placed the affair in such an alarming point of view, as...