1To George Washington from Richard Corbin, 18 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have just heard a Report of my Son Dickey being at Newyork in his way to his own Country: He went to England in the year 1775 to Secure my Claim to an Estate both in England and Jamaica: In regard to the first, it was Soon Settled & adjusted; The Circumstances of the times, and the distance of place, greatly obstructed the other; and the Value being very Considerable; tho’ founded on the...
2To George Washington from Chevalier de Lavalette, 18 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
j’ai L’honneur d’adresser a votre excellence la copie de la Lettre que jai réçue du Gouverneur de la Virginie au Sujet de huit caisses de vin appartenantes a M. Le Chr. de Chatelus lesquelles ont eté prises sur une Goélétte americaine enlevée dans la riviere de james par des prisoniers anglois a bord d’un flag. Monsieur Harrison a du vous rendre compte de cette affairre; Le gouverneur a oublié...
3To George Washington from Walter Stewart, 18 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving your Excellency’s favor of the 18th January, And find myself Under Additional Obligations for the kind manner in which You are pleas’d to mention my late Illness; from it I now think myself perfectly recover’d, Although Oblig’d to be very careful for fear of a relapse. I should have Answer’d Your Excellency’s Letter Immediately, but being at that time uncertain...