1From George Washington to John Parke Custis, 6 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 26th of July came to my hands yesterday & I thank you for the acct given of the proceedings of the Assembly—If you had not adopted the Finance scheme, I should have thought the omission unpardonable; as it must, in a manner, have set our money afloat again; when every measure which human policy is capable of devising ought to be adopted to give it a fixed, & permanent value....