1To George Washington from Saunders A. Read, 25 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
What you offer me for Doing your Work is entirely too little if you will give a Dollar a Day and find me, and a house for my family to live in the time I am about your work I will do it I will engage to do it as well as any one you can get I have now engaged to do a small Job at the falls which will detain me ten or twelve days If you wish to employ me I shoud be Glad to know tomorrow as I...