1From George Washington to Anthony White, 25 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your favours of the 31st Ulto and 1st Instt I have had the honour to receive; and you may believe me sincere, when I assure you, that it will give me pleasure to shew any kind of Civility in my power to your Son, whose modest deportment richly entitles him to it. I am under some kind of Ingagement to a very worthy Gentleman of my acquaintance in Virginia to appoint him one of my Aid de Camps;...