1To George Washington from Henry Emanuel Lutterloh, 13 June 1787 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellences Letter of the 8th of Aprill I had the Honour to receive but yesterday, (owing to my living at present 6 miles from Town, upon a Plantation I lately purchased.) By Your Excells, answer to my Proposalls—I find that it would be difficult to persuade the Gentlemen; in Virginia to enter into a Contract or Subscribtion to bring over a large Number of Germans which was My object when...