From George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 14 February 1796
To Bushrod Washington
Philadelphia 14th Feb. 1796.
Dear Sir,
Since my last to you, relative to my Executorship of Colo. Colvills Estate, I sent, as therein mentioned, to the person from whom I had purchased the Guinea, or Chinese Hogs which you saw at my Mill,1 and obtained two; a boar & a sow; the latter with Pig. He informed me, however, that they were not of the whole blood; but, in his opinion, improved from their mixture with another breed of Hogs which he has. They were accompanied with as much Corn as would serve them—plentifully—on the passage; and ordered immediately to the Vessel, which was on the point of Sailing, & did sail yesterday; and a receipt to be taken therefor & brought to me.2 This not being received until to day, I was surprised, (but too late to remonstrate agt it) at the freight that is charged. But it is the way we are imposed upon here, in almost every thing. My love to Mrs Washington, in wch your aunt joins. I am always, and Affectly Yours
Go: Washington
ALS, PHi: Dreer Collection.
1. See GW to Bushrod Washington, 10 Feb.; GW discussed the hogs in his first letter of that date and the Colvill estate in his second.
2. GW’s accounts for 2 April record a payment of $14.33 to William Crouch for the hogs and corn. Crouch, who lived on Robert Morris’s farms near the Upper Ferry, often supplied GW with hay and sometimes other farm products (; Independent Gazetteer, and Agricultural Repository [Philadelphia], 19 March 1791; Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser [Philadelphia], 20 Nov. 1798). The receipt has not been found.