1From George Washington to Thomas Law, 2 October 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your note of the 28th Ult. by Mr Frestal, was received on Friday last. My expences are so great and my resources so small, that it is but little in my power to promote such plans as you advocate. To clear me out of Philadelphia, & to lay in a few necessaries for my family, I sold two valuable tracts of land in the State of Pennsylvania a short time before I left the City for 22,000 dollars;...