1To George Washington from John Blair, 15 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
Whatever may be the Determination of your Excellency on the Subject of this Address, I know your Goodness too well to doubt of your Excuse, for my presuming to bespeak a Moment of your Time, however pretious, in listening to a Complaint, prompted by Official Duty; a Complaint which, as Rector of the Governors of William & Mary, I know not how to suppress. The unhappy Vacation, which the...
2To George Washington from John Blair, 6 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
Mr Booth, a British merchant, taken with Ld Cornwallis at York, having been lately ordered on board one of the flag vessels to go to N. York, intending to petition the Genl Assembly for permission to remain here, is anxious that your Excellency would suspend the order for his de parture, till he can know the Sense of th e Le gislature on the merits of his petition—I am quite a stranger to the...