11From George Washington to Anna Welsh, 8 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
I received your melancholy letter by the last Mail; and could not delay to express my sympathetic condolence on your unhappy situation. It is indeed distressing to me to find that a Lady, whose husband and Brother perished in the service of their country, should be reduced to a precarious dependence on others for that support, which she might otherwise have received from them. Your affecting...
12[Diary entry: 8 December 1788] (Washington Papers)
Monday 8th. Thermometer at 50 in the Morning— at Noon and at Night. Clear warm & pleasant with the Wind at South. Went up to Alexandria on business of the Estate of Colo. Thos. Colvill to whom I am an Executor. Returned in the Evening accompanied by Colo. Henry Lee.
138. (Adams Papers)
Left Braintree. Went as far as Wilmington. Rain.