1Benjamin Fitzhugh Grymes to GW, 27 March 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: Benjamin Fitzhugh Grymes to GW, 27 Mar. 1787. GW wrote Grymes on 10 April : “Your favor of the 27th ult. was put into my hands the 7th instt.”
2From George Washington to Benjamin Fitzhugh Grymes, 16 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
I am very much obliged to you for the Jerusalem Artichoke and fish, which you were so obliging as to send me by Colo. Stith; and if opportunity serves, Mrs Washington will be equally thankful to you for a little Cotton Seed. Of the Irish Potatoes I believe I have enough to seed the ground I intend for this Crop; but as the quantity will be large, I may be mistaken; and if you raise for Market...
3From George Washington to Benjamin Fitzhugh Grymes, 10 April 1787 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 27th ult. was put into my hands the 7th instt; and the same day I sowed, in drills, the Guinea grass you had the goodness to send me. I beg you to accept my thanks for the offer of Potatoes; but fortunately, meeting with a Rhode Island Vessel in pursuit of Fish, I have bartered for a hundred and odd bushels of them, of a very fine kind. The Soil best adapted for Carrots is...
4To George Washington from Benjamin Fitzhugh Grymes, 14 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
It affords me the highest satisfaction to have it in my power to oblige you by sending of you five bushels of Jerusalem Artichokes, and had it not been for an [un]luckey experiment I shd have been able to have spared you a large quantity, but I have sent you the better half. In order to increase my crop, I cut off the tops three different times breast high, and by that means, made not a bushel...
5From George Washington to Benjamin Fitzhugh Grymes, 5 January 1788 (Washington Papers)
As you have not yet sent for your Jenny, the presumption is that the many letters which have been written to you requiring of it, have all miscarried; and therefore, you have the trouble of this. She is now in good order, and with foal, which may be lost (as several of my own have been) from the number that are together, struggling for what little I have it in my power from the scantiness of...