14011From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 19 January 1773 (Washington Papers)
If you are done with my Compass & Plotting Instruments, I should be glad to receive them by the bearer, as I measure all my Fields, & am now Inclosing a New one, and do not know where to lay the Rails that are to Fence it, till I find how much of the Field will give me the quantity of Land I want to Inclose. As I wrote to you in haste the morning of the day Lord Sterlg yourself &ca were to...
14012From 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...
14013From 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,...
14014Cash Accounts, February 1773 (Washington Papers)
Cash Feby 12— To Rent Recd from Thos West £ 4.10. 0 To Ditto Recd from Lewis Lemart 7. 0. 0 To Ditto Recd from Obediah Oliphant 4.10. 0 15— To Ditto recd from Mr Moses Simpson for a Negro of Colo. T. Colvills Estate 32. 0. 0 Contra 2— By Mr James Mercers order to Wm Brent 125. 0. 0 7— By Cash paid the Gumspring Shoemr 0. 3. 0 9— By Ditto paid for 9 Barrl of Tarr
14015From George Washington to Thomas, Lord Fairfax, 4 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
I have just been informed of Isaac Larews having enter’d in your Lordship’s Office, a Tract of Land survey’d for my deceas’d Brother, Lawrence, in the name of Richd Sanford, twenty odd years ago. The circumstances attending which, to the best of my recollection, will be found upon enquiry, to stand thus. This Land being survey’d just before the Death of my Brother, a Patent never issued for...
14016From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 4 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
On the 1st Instt I receivd a Letter from Mr Snickers informing me that Isaac Larew had Enterd the Land calld Sanford’s, Claimd by my Brother Charles, or some of you, and will push for a Deed from Lord Fairfax for it—I should suppose (tho. Snickers adds it is carrying on very slyly) that you cannot be altogether unacquainted with his design, but for fear you should, this Letter is intended to...
14017From George Washington to Robert McMickan, 12 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
On the 12th Ulto I troubled you with a Letter respecting my Consignment of Flour to D: J: Adams in the Brig Fairfax to which I beg leave to refer; since the date thereof I have been advis’d to send a more Authentick power of Attorney; which I now do, and shall, if you can serve me in this affair acknowledge it as a very singular favr. It is not in my power to make out an Acct with any...
14018From 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...
14019From George Washington to Burwell Bassett, 15 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 5th came to my hands in course of Post, last Thursday, and fill’d us with no small concern at the Indisposition of yourself and Family —equally concernd am I to hear of the unhappy state of our Paper Currency, and that the Interposition of the Assembly is thought necessary—should this measure be resolvd on, be so good as to advise Me, whether it be intended that the Country...
14020From George Washington to John Dalton, 15 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
I am obligd to you for the notice you have given me of an intended meeting of your Vestry on Tuesday next—I do not know however that it will be in my power to attend, nor do I conceive it at all necessary that I should, as I am an avowd Enemy to the Scheme I have heard (but never till of late believd) that some Members of your Vestry are Inclind to adopt. If the Subscription to which among...
14021From George Washington to Craven Peyton, 23 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
Mr Gilbert Simpson of your County and I, are upon a Scheme of settling some Lands of mine upon Youghiogany in Partnership—& as it is more convenient for each of us to lay in Sundry Articles which we are already possessd off than to make a joint purchase of them it becomes necessary to have these Appraizd; for this Reason, and, in as much as the Appraisement will either be at Mr Simpsons own...
14022From George Washington to Gilbert Simpson, 23 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
As the Negro Fellow I bought In Alexandria will by no means consent to leave this Neighbourhood and as you did not seem Inclind to take him without I have sent a young Fellow which I bought last Spring in his room—In coming from Boston here he got Frost Bit & lost part of his Toes—which prevents his Walkg with as much activity as he otherwise would but as they are quite well, and he a good...
14023From George Washington to Robert McMickan, February 1773 (Washington Papers)
You will be surprizd perhaps at the frequency of my Letters—I wish I had less cause to be troublesome to you—but having receivd Information of late, that my Affairs in the hands of Mr D: J: Adams are in a very desperate way, & vigorous measures necessary to be pursued, I send you a Copy of the power of Attorney which I forwarded on the 12th Inst. to Norfolk (in order to get the Seal of the...
14024Cash Accounts, March 1773 (Washington Papers)
Cash Mar. 1— To Ditto [cash] recd from Alexr Fryer for Rent £ 6.15. 0 To Ditto recd for Wm Peterson’s Lott 6. 0. 0 To Ditto recd for Jacob Fry’s Lott 6. 0. 0 To Ditto recd from Mr Piper 100. 0. 0 To Ditto recd from Mr Townshend Dade Inspector of the Falls WareHo. for the Treasury 24. 7.10 6— To ditto won at Cards 2. 0. 0 12— To Cash from Mr Fras Foster due J.P.C. 26.12. 0 13— To Cash recd...
14025From George Washington to John Fry, 10 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
Not knowing with certainty who to apply to for the Quota of the Expences due from Colo. Fry’s Estate towards prosecuting our claim to the Lands under Govr Dinwiddie’s Proclamation of 1754 I have wrote to yourself, & brother, alternately on this head, without receiving any answer. The Lands which have been surveyed & allotted by an order of Council of the 6th of Novr (as you may see by my...
14026From George Washington to Charles Mynn Thruston, 12 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 25th ulto by Mr Watson came duly to hand; in answer to it I must beg leave to inform you, that the short allotment of Land to Mr Andw Wagener was not the result of any determination of the Officers who met at Fredericksburg on the 23d of Novemr (for they had nothing to do, either in settling the proportions, or distributing the Land.) but was a solemn Act of the Govr &...
14027From George Washington to James Wood, 13 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
Herewith you will receive Lord Dunmores Certificates of my Claims (as well in my own Right, as by purchase from Captn Posey and Mr Thruston) in the Location of which in the Government of West Florida I shall rely on your Friendship and care. Unnecessary it is to add that, I should choose good Land, or none at all; but as many things concur to make Land valuable it is impossible for me at this...
14028From George Washington to John Washington, 20 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
I thank you for the trouble you have had in purchasing a Gardener for me—the Man promises fair, & I hope will answer, thô chance too often directs in things of this sort. By the bearer Mr Franklin Syms I send You £6.16.9, amount of the charges of Transporting the Servant up. Your Draft favour ⟨of M⟩r Hodge shall be paid by me, or my ⟨ mutilated ⟩ the April Genl Court next —I have nothing to...
14029From George Washington to James Tilghman, Jr., 23 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
I expect Govr Eden, and some Gentlemen from Maryland here this afternoon —If you are disengaged, I should be glad if you would come down & stay with us a day or two, or as long as they remain with Yr Most Obedt Servt ALS , NjMoHP . GW’s diary entry for 23 Mar. reads: “Went over to Mr. Wm. Digges’s to Dinner, to meet Govr. [Robert] Eden who with Mr. [Benedict] Calvert, Mr. Digges, Mr. Geo....
14030From George Washington to Peter Chester, 25 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
Mr Wood the bearer of this is a Gentleman of Virginia upon a Tour to Florida—He proposes before his return to explore some of the ungranted Lands in your Government; and, as I have never yet been able to Locate the Lands which I am entitled to under his Majesty’s Proclamation of October 1763 has promised that, if he meets with such Lands as he thinks will answer my purpose to have 10,000 acres...
14031From George Washington to James Wood, 30 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
I intended to have had a little further conversation with you on the subject of the Florida Lands, but my haste to leave Williamsburg & your Dining out the day I did do so prevented it—I addressd a short Letter to you by way of Memm & left it with Mr Southall—I hope you receivd it, that I may be satisfied you did so, please to advise me as the Govrs Certificates of my Claim was Inclosd...
14032Cash Accounts, April 1773 (Washington Papers)
Cash Aprl 10— To Cash recd for Fish £ 1. 2.0 17— To Ditto won at Cards 1. 5.0 19— To Ditto recd from Colo. Adam Stephen on Acct of the Grant of 200,000 Acs. of Ld 16.11.3 To Ditto recd from Captn [Peter] Hog on same acct 16.11.3 20— To Ditto recd from John Ward for three days Waggonage @ 12/6 1.17.6 To Ditto recd from Do short pd for Fish 1772 0. 1.6 21— To Ditto recd from Mr Jno. West on Acct...
14033From George Washington to Benedict Calvert, 3 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
I am now set down to write to you on a Subject of Importance, & of no small embarrassment to me. My Son in Law & Ward, Mr Custis, has, as I have been informd, paid his Addresses to your Second Daughter, & having made some progress in her Affections required her in Marriage—How far a union of this Sort may be agreeable to you, you best can tell, but I should think myself wanting in Candour was...
14034From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 13 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
In obedience to your Lordship’s request, I do myself the honour to inform you that, by Letters this day receivd from Doctr Cooper of Kings College in New-York, I find it will be about the first of May before I shall set of for that place; and that it will be June, perhaps the middle of it before I return — Harvest then coming on, and seldom ending till after the middle of July I could almost...
14035From George Washington to Burwell Bassett, 20 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
The interruption of the Post for several Weeks, prevented our receiving the melancholy account of your loss till within these few days. That we sympathize in the misfortune, and lament the decree which has deprivd you of so dutiful a Child, & the World of so promising a young Lady, stands in no need, I hope, of argument to proove; but the ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice...
14036From George Washington to James Carter, 20 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
As you have usually paid the Intt of your Bond at this Court, I have taken the liberty of requesting you to do it now to Mr James Hill, as it is not convenient to me, to be down at the Meeting of Merchants—Mr Hills receipt for the Ten pounds Sixteen Shillings due at the foot of this Letter will be the same as if pass’d from Sir Yr Most Obedt Servt ALS , NjMoHP . For Dr. Carter’s annual payment...
14037From George Washington to Fielding Lewis, 20 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
As it would be very inconvenient to me to set out for New York as soon as I returnd from Williamsburg, I have resolvd to postpone my journy to the last mentiond place, & of course to give you the trouble of doing my business there; I have therefore by the bearer, Inclos’d you some Bonds, and Orders for Money, which I beg the favour of you to receive for me —The Account against Mr Mattw Whiting...
14038Enclosure: Account with Fielding Lewis, 20 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
A List of Sundrie Sums expected to be recd, & pd, by Colo. F. Lewis Sterling Currency From Messrs Buckners £616.13.0 Trustees of Colo. B: Moore or Exrs of Colo. Baylor £401.11.0 Mr Armisteads Estate 108. 8.9 Treasury 12. 2.6 Colo. Bannister 32.10. Mr Montgomerie 32. 1.7 Colo. Warnr Lewis 40. Mr Norton for Mr Thruston 12. 1.9 Mr John Fry
14039Cash Accounts, May 1773 (Washington Papers)
Cash May To Cash recd from Mr Ramsay viz. 4 half Joes & £4.10. Jersey Money £ 13. 4. 0 To Ditto recd of Doctr Carter for a years Interest of his Bond due 10.16. 0 To Ditto recd from the Exrs of Mr [Philip Whitehead] Claiborn Do 14. 0. 0 To Ditto recd from Mr Frans Foster Do 33. 8. 0 To Ditto recd from Mr Thos Prosser Do 7. 5. 9 To Ditto recd from Colo. Warner Lewis Do 40. 0. 0 To Ditto recd...
14040From George Washington to Myles Cooper, 31 May 1773 (Washington Papers)
Inclos’d you have a sett of Bills for one hundred pounds Sterling which please to sell at the prevailing Exchange and retain the money in your own hands to answer Mr Custis’ Expences at College, & such calls as he may have for Cash to defray the Incident expences of his abode in this City—In respect to the first Article of Expence, I submit the matter wholely to your better judgement, under a...