11[Diary entry: 18 March 1799] (Washington Papers)
18th. Mer. at 22 in the Morning. Wind hard all day at No. Wt. and clear. Mer. at 24 at Night.
12From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 18 March 1799 (Washington Papers)
I recollect no business of sufficient importance to require your return hither, sooner than Doctr Thornton conceives will allow him sufficent time to effect your cure. Were the case however otherwise, far would it be from me, to request this return before so desirable an object is accomplished. I do not therefore wish you to hurry it, on account of my business. Charles takes a horse up for...
13From George Washington to William Thompson, 18 March 1799 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Thos Lee (of Loudoun) is possessed, I am informed, of a tract of about 400 acres of Land within a mile of Colchester, which he is disposed to sell. Let me request the favour of you to describe it to me as accurately as you can from your own knowledge, or from the information of others on whose judgment you can rely. In doing this, say what the kind & quality of the Soil is; Whether level...
14To George Washington from William Thornton, 18 March 1799 (Washington Papers)
I received your Favour of the 14th Inst. with the present of the three valuable Trees with which you have honored me by Coll Lear—The weather was so bad that he could not send them till the Day before yesterday, so that they were two Days out of the Ground, and there was no mould round them. I know as a Farmer that good mould is very scarce in some places. As soon as I got the Trees I planted...
15From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson & Company, 18 March 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof mr Richardson now sets out for the corn found for me […] I gave him an order on you for five hundred dollars as [indicated?] in my letter to you of the 16th. he is instructed to [first call?] on mr Fleming to take the […] in which case this application to you would not be […] days. but if […] cash itself [be insisted] on on delivery of the corn, mr Richardson will then [have]...
16To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 18 March 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16th. inclosing your draught on Mr. John Barnes for $:350 I have received. Mr. Pendleton not having made any further payment, I shall endeavour to dispose of the dft: agreeably to your direction—I calculate though on meeting with some difficulty in doing it, owing to there being so many more persons who wish to draw money from Philada., than who wish to remit there; this...