41From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 16 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 12th with its enclosures came duly to hand, and under cover with this letter you will receive Invoice & Bill of lading for somethings which went from hence yesterday. I thought it best to send you, ready prepared, the Plaster of Paris from hence. March or April will be time enough to spread it (at the rate of 5 or 6 bushls to the acre) on the Lawns before each door; if there...
42From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 19 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
The bearer Mr James Butler is the person I mentioned to you in my last as an Overlooker of the home house concern; and enclosed is the agreement I have entered into with him for that purpose. I am in great hopes, from the character given of him to me, that he may be found serviceable, keep him however to his duty, and whenever he is found difficient in it let both him & me know it. I am Your...
43To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 19 December 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 19 Dec. 1792. GW wrote Whitting on 23 Dec. : “Your letter of the 19th instant, enclosing the weekly reports, has been duly received.”
44To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 21 December 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 21 Dec. 1792. GW wrote Whitting on 30 Dec. : “I have duly received your letters of the 21st & 26th instt.”
45From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 23 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 19th instant, enclosing the weekly reports, has been duly received. By Mr James Butler who left this City on friday last, I wrote you a few lines enclosing the agreement I had entered into with him. I request that the Smiths Book may be put into his hands, and a regular account taken every night of what they have done in the day; and that he will see they do as much as they...
46To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 26 December 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 26 Dec. 1792. GW wrote Whitting on 30 Dec. : “I have duly received your letters of the 21st & 26th instt.”
47From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 30 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your letters of the 21st & 26th instt, and am a little surprized to find by the last that Mr James Butler had not reached Mount Vernon before the date of it—He left this City on the 21st and according to the usual course, & time required for the Stages to run, he ought to have been in Alexandria on Monday last, the 24th of this month. Notwithstanding the reduced number of...
48To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 2 January 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 2 Jan. 1793. GW wrote Whitting on 6 Jan. : “Your letter of the 2d instant with its enclosures came to hand yesterday.”
49From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 6 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 2d instant with its enclosures came to hand yesterday —and I am glad to find by it that Mr James Butler had arrived safe for I began to apprehend that he might have fallen sick on the Road, as he had not reached Mount Vernon at the date of your former letter of the 26th Ulto. If this person performs all the duties I have Suggested to you as proper for him to be employed in,...
50To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 9 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 30th of Decemr I had the Honor to receive, in my last I mentioned Mr Butlers being at Mount Vernon he seems a well inform’d man & may be a Good Judge of farming but I find he like all others first from Europe thinks Great improvements may be made in agriculture he has been with the hands while Grubbing on the side of hell hole Swamp & he Got a Spade & tried the Soil of the...