1To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 11 January 1773 (Washington Papers)
Superfine flour. from 15/6 to 16/8 & the Cask 1/8 Common Do 15/ Do Do Biscuit Stuff 9/ to 10/ Do Do Herrings 12/6—15/ few at market Indian Corn 11/6—12/6 ⅌ Barrell Sir Above is the prices current here at this time, if you incline to ship any thing this way I will endeavor to get the highest price going at the time I receive them. you must note that if we sell for ready money dollars pass...
2From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 23 January 1773 (Washington Papers)
By the Liberty Wm Heath I send you 80 Barrls of Herrings pr Receipt Inclosd; which please to dispose of for April pay; or, if the price can be enhancd by it, for that of July. As I have never yet sold a Barrl of my Fish under 15/ at my Landing—as I know them to be good (equal, if not superior to any that is transported from this Country)—and in no danger of spoiling by keeping, being well...
3From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 27 January 1773 (Washington Papers)
Inclos’d you have a Copy of my last. By the bearer Captn Silby Harney in the Willing Maid, I send you 200 Barrls of Superfine Flour, and 50 Barrl of Midlings (all the Vessell would carry) pr Invoices Inclos’d, which please to dispose of for the best prices you can get, immediately, unless by keeping it a while, there is an apparent prospect of selling it higher—You may allow Credit till April,...
4From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 12 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
By the Betcy Schooner, John Thompson Master, you will receive in good Order I hope 137 Barls of Superfine Flour—40 Ditto of Burr Midlings—70 Ditto of Ship or Bisquet-stuff—and 41 Ditto of Herrings pr Invoices Inclosed, which please to dispose of for April, July, or October Pay, as you find my Interest can be advancd by it, and when sold advise me upon what terms, that I may govern my own...
5To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 22 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
I am very sorry to inform you that we have very slow sale for flour at this time, owing to the large quantity’s from every part of the country, together with a report of the best superfine selling with you at 14/ ⅌ Ct. I have not sold as yet above sixty barrels of your best kind & not one of the inferior sort, but do not doubt of disposing the whole of it payable at the July & October...
6From George Washington to Thomas Newton, 14 June 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Newton, Jr., 14 June 1773. On 30 June Newton wrote GW : “I received yours of 14th.”
7To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 30 June 1773 (Washington Papers)
I received yours of 14th will take care that your Letter to Mr M Mikin shall be forwarded by a vessell that will sail in a few days. I now send you the prices of the flour herrings & ship stuf sold for which I hope you’l approve off. the first quantity is not all sold yet tho. there is but few barrels left. I am realy at a loss what I shall do with the midlings as the Bakers will not touch...
8From George Washington to Thomas Newton, 5 July 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Newton, Jr., 5 July 1773. On 22 July Newton wrote GW : “I Received your favors of the 5th & 10th of this month.”
9From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 10 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
I have receivd your favour of the 30th June, & observe what you say in respect to the Midlings—As the Sale of it seems to be so dull in Norfolk I approve of your shipping it to Madeira, and beg that it may be consignd on my behalf to Messrs Lamar Hill Bisset & Co. who you will please to direct to apply the proceeds to my Credit, & wait my order for wines by Captn Conway who is to take some...
10To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 22 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
I Received your favors of the 5th & 10th of this month, shall take care to follow your directions in shipping the midlings & hope you’l have a good sale of them. the vessel will sail in fifteen or sixteen days from this she has been detaind longer that I expected owing to some necessary repairs. I shall be glad to know if you’d choose to have these midlings insured & whether it shoud be done...
11To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 13 August 1773 (Washington Papers)
I have Just time to inform you I have paid Mr Hill one hundred and ninety five pounds, and one hundred & ten dollars in the whole two hundd & twenty eight pounds. I am sorry that I cou’d get no more but am in hopes the whole sales will be paid at the next meeting. I have not been home since I received yours for examining the seconds but will follow your direction’s and make the most of them...
12From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 14 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have Invoice of 26 Barrl of Biscuit stuff; which, with 35 Sent off before I came home, will be more than sufficient I conceive to mix with the midlings for Bread; if so, please to dispose of the overplus for, and on my acct, as also of the Bread when Baked, and send me an Acct of the proceeds, with the Cash, if any proper oppertunity offers to Alexandria to the care of Messrs Robt...
13From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 2 April 1774 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have Griffen Gilley’s receipt for sixty Barrels of superfine Flour; as also an invoice of the weight &c. of each barrel. Please to dispose of it to the best advantage, for my interest, on credit not ecceeding October. I was obliged to buy in the Anne & Elizabeth myself at the price of £175 which is thirty odd, short of what it stands me—Will this Vessel, do you think, sell at...
14To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 19 April 1774 (Washington Papers)
I Received yours covering an invoice for 60 Barrels f[l]our which is sold at 16/8 & freight payable at the Octbr meeting next. at present there is a prospect of flour’s being in demand & believe you may venture to send one or two hundred barrels unless you can sell at nearly the same price as above at Alexandria for our market is but uncertain at best, as one week there is a demand & the next...
15To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 27 June 1774 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to my promise I now beg leave to inform you that I am of opinion flour will answer at this market; that is, it will sell for 16/8 & the freight. The two hundred barrells received whilst I was in Williamsburg is sold for that price & make no doubt that I cou’d dispose of as much more for the same. the bread still sticks on hand, tho. I am in hopes it will go off in a short time....
16To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 21 December 1774 (Washington Papers)
I Received yours & am extreemly sorry for the disapointment at the meeting in October. I was not wanting in my endeavors to collect the whole that was due to you, but such was the scarcity of Cash that it cou’d not be got & beleive in generall the worst payments that ever were known was made at that meeting. I will use my utmost endeavors to get your money by the meeting of the Assembly, tho....
17From George Washington to Thomas Newton, 3 April 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Newton, Jr., 3 April 1775. Newton wrote GW on 12 April : “I Received your favor of 3d instant.”
18To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 12 April 1775 (Washington Papers)
I Received your favor of 3d instant, I also have received the herrings 60 Bars. of which I have sold at 15/ & am in hopes of getting clear of the remainder at the same price payable next October. the ship stuff is still on hand tho. I hope to get ten shillings for it soon. I will endeavor to get a vessell to bring up the sand tho. I am afraid I shall not procure it to be done under 5d. or 6d....
19From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 3 September 1785 (Washington Papers)
I am now about to inform you of the reason why I have suffered your letter of the 27th of April, with its enclosures, to remain so long unacknowledged. In an absence of almost nine years from home, my private concerns had got so much deranged, and my accounts & papers, by the frequent hasty removal of the latter to get them out of the reach of the enemy when their shipping appeared, had got...
20From George Washington to Thomas Newton, 18 December 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Newton, Jr., 18 Dec. 1785. It was advertised by Parke-Bernet Galleries in its second sale of the contents of John Grebbel’s library, 22–24 Jan. 1941, as “about 65 words.” The letter, quoted in the Carnegie Book Shop catalog no. 193, reads: “I should be glad if it was paid to Doctr David Stuart, a Delegate in Assembly at Richmond from this County and who I am sure...
21From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 9 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letters of the 20th of Jany—24th of Feby & 13th of March—the last of which speaks of a letter written by you to me of the same date—this letter has never got to hand: but I have received in Alexandria the £60—which Messrs Pennock & Skipwith promised to remit me on your accot—as also the Wine from Captn Earle, in very good order. My situation, since my retreat from...
22From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 26 May 1786 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have Peter Kerwins receipt for fifty barrels of super fine flour, which I beg you to sell to the best advantage, and remit what may be due to me, after deducting what I am owing to you. Twenty four of these fifty barrels are inspected; the others, tho’ of equal quality, are not. The reason is, the bearer calling unexpectedly, & being in a hurry, would not allow time to get the...
23From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 19 August 1786 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed is a duplicate of my letter to you of the 26th of May which was forwarded by Peter Kirwins who received fifty barrels of superfine Flour to be deliver’d to you at Norfolk. It is now almost three months since the flour was sent: as I have not heard from you, and am unacquainted with Mr Kirwin, I do not know whether it has come to your hands or not. If you have received it, & it is...
24From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 11 February 1787 (Washington Papers)
It is now two or three months since I requested, in very explicit terms, that if my flour was not then sold, that it might be disposed of for what ever it would fetch, & the money remitted to me by Doctr Stuart who was then attending the Assembly, or some other safe conveyance. As I have heard nothing from you since, it is probable the letter may have miscarried—I therefore beg that no further...
25From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 7 July 1788 (Washington Papers)
I am in want of a quantity of good eighteen Inch shingles and am informed that they will come better & cheaper from Norfolk than from the Eastern shore. Be so good, therefore, as to advise me by the first Post after you shall have received this letter if I can be supplied with 100,000 from the former. In what time—and at what price; delivered at my landing distinguishing between what is called...
26To George Washington from Thomas Newton, 14 July 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Newton, Jr., 14 July 1788. On 1 Aug. GW wrote Newton : “Your letters of the 14th & 19 Ulto came duly to hand.”
27From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 1 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 14th & 19 Ulto came duly to hand, as did the sample of Shingles by Captn Slacum. I did not conceive that under the present dearth of Cash that the price of this article would have been so high as you mentioned. Capt. Slacum, with whom I have conversed on this subject, thinks as you do, that Juniper Shingles would answer my purpose as well as any other would—and suggested...
28To George Washington from Thomas Newton, 8 August 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Newton, Jr., 8 Aug. 1788. On 10 Oct. GW wrote Newton about “Your letter of the 8th of August.”
29To George Washington from Thomas Newton, 23 September 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Newton, Jr., 23 Sept. 1788. On 10 Oct. GW wrote Newton: “Your letter of the 23d Ulto was handed to me.”
30To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 17 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to recommend to your Excy Capt. Taylor who commands the State boat Patriot, the wounds he received during the war at times afftect him much & having a large family makes him solicit an imployment. I can assure your Excy his attention has been such as to give general satisfaction, having heard that the light houses are to be ⟨ta⟩ken on the United States acct if necessary I can...
31From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 12 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
A variety of avocations has prevented my giving an earlier acknowledgment to your letter of the 17th of July. I will now thank you, Sir, to furnish me with an Acct of the quantity & cost of the materials which have been placed on Cape Henry by the Commissioners appointed by the Assembly of Virginia, for the purpose of building a Light-house—as you have been so obliging as to offer to do it. I...
32To George Washington from Thomas Newton, 24 October 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Newton, Jr., 24 Oct. 1789. On 23 Nov. GW wrote to Newton : “Your letter of the 24th of October . . . has been duly received.”
33From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 23 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 24th of October, containing an estimate of the cost of a Light-house which was to have been erected on Cape Henry—a draft of the same—and an account of materials placed upon the spot for the purpose of building, has been duly received; and I beg you to accept my thanks for your trouble in preparing & forwarding them—I am, Sir, Your most Obedt Servt Df , in the writing of...
34To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 28 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
By request of Tench Coxe Esqr. I beg leave to inform you of the persons who, have offerd as keepers of the Light house[.] Capt. William Lewis of Fredricksburg, Capt. Leml Cornick of Princess Ann, Mr James of the same place & a Mr Thos Herbert are all that I have known. Capt. Lewis & Capt. Cornick are men that I am well acquainted with and proper persons to take charge of so great a trust....
35To George Washington from Thomas Newton, 9 December 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Newton, Jr., 9 Dec. 1792. GW wrote Newton on 25 Dec. , referring to “your Letter to me of the 9th instant.”
36From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 25 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry it is not in my power to give you such precise information relative to the subject of your Letter to me of the 9th instant as may be satisfactory to yourself, or serviceable to the object mentioned in it. I do not recollect ever to have seen the Will of the Revd Mr Green, so that I can say nothing from that; but I remember it was impressed on my mind that the woman Sarah, of whom...
37To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., and William Lindsay, 5 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
We have taken the liberty, considering it a duty to give you information of two small schooner boats cruizing of[f] our Capes, as privateers under French Commissions, who are daily chasing vessels bound in & out to the great prejudice of our trade, & contrary to the Law of Nations, to be chasing & boarding vessels within our territories. one of these vessels is Called the San Calotte &...
38To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 9 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 24th Ulto I received & have made enquiry after the plants they are not yet arived, I am inform’d shou’d they come in I will take care of them & send them to Mount Vernon. I have no hopes of ever getting in the debts due you from Jno. Smith, Willis Pugh & Goodrich Boush, they lost their property during the war & I loose by Smith & Boush 500£ at least. Messrs Phripp & Bowdoin &...
39From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 23 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
Knowing nothing of what the Dismal Swamp Compy are doing, or mean to do with their property in that place, & having an offer for my share therein, I would take it kind of you to let me know by the first post after you receive this Letter, what you think it is worth by the acre—or in other words, the highest price any of the companies Lands have, or ought to sell for in that way, allowing a...
40To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 29 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
I Received your favor of the 23d by what I can learn at present the property of the Dismal S. Co. is increasing very fast in value, they are now on a right plan of gettg shingles & Timber & have purchased a valuable mill on Deep creek which you’l know by name of Rotherys, now call’d Smiths, this property must be of great value in some short day, it lies near the canal ½ mile, from which it...
41To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 30 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
I now inclose you Mr I. Sexton state of the D.S. Co. as far as I cou’d obtain it whch I think may be depended on, I am very certain it is in a flourishing way, as the Company are punctual in paying the subscription, of 20 Shares to the canal, which will also be very valuable when finished, these shares alone I shou’d think worth if the Canal was at work at least 200£ the subscription is only...
42To George Washington from Thomas Newton, Jr., 2 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
I Received your Excys favor inclosing Miss Janet Dalgleishs letter & have wrote her as near as I can the situation of her B r others affairs here. Dotr Campbell the Exr lives in Bermuda he has made no return of his proceedings nor has their been an audit of the Estate that no thing can be done without his rendering an acct. I have inform’d by letter that if she can send me proper papers, I...