1[Diary entry: 14 July 1785] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 14th. Mercury at 72 in the Morng.—77 at Noon and 79 at Night. Day clear—with a little Wind from the Southward. Went through my Harvest field at Muddy hole to Alexandria, to a Meeting of the Directors of the Potomack Company. Agreed with Mr. James Rumsey to undertake the Management of our works and a Mr. Stuart from Baltimore as an Assistant. Gave them directions—passed some...
2From George Washington to William Fitzhugh, 14 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 4th came to me on the 12th: at the time of writing it you could not have received my letter dated in the latter part of June, covering one for Richard Boulton—not knowing how, otherwise, to get one to him, I took the liberty of addressing it to your care. In that letter I informed him, that if he did not immediately enter upon the execution of his Contract, I would put the...
3From George Washington to Thomas Smith, 14 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 9th of Feby was long on its passage to me; but my answer would not have been delayed ’till now, had not much time been spent in obtaining the several enclosures herewith sent you: a very necessary voucher however, viz.—the British Kings proclamation, properly authenticated, forbiding the settlement of the Western Lands, in defiance of which the Defendants took possession of...
4From George Washington to Alexander White, 14 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
Mr Fraunces’s letters to you & to me, the last of which I also enclose for your perusal, are so expressive of his wants as to render it unnecessary for me to add ought, on the occasion of them. He has been considered (tho’ confined within the british lines) as a friend to our cause: It is said he was remarkably attentive to our prisoners in the City of New York; supporting them, as far as his...