1From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 14 June 1755 (Washington Papers)
I receivd Your ’s Letter of the 27th of May, and assure you that nothing is more agreeable to me than to ⟨ erasure ⟩ hav g e our Deep run Tract of land divided; nor nothg is more agreeable satisfactory than for my Brothr Jno. to act on my behalf, whose conduct in the affair I shall abide by;
2From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 6 December 1771 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 30th Ulto came to my hands the 3d Instt —That Mr Smith is dead, is no wonder; that he lived so long, is a matter of some surprize to me, as every body expected to have the burying of him into whose house he came—What a pretty situation your family would have been in, if he had obtaind leave to Innoculate? after having receivd the Infection you would have been left to the...
3From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 28 July 1772 (Washington Papers)
I should be much obliged to you for your care of those matters committed to Mr Johnston, respecting my Tenants; that is, that you would be kind enough to see that they go properly on; as I find Mr Johnston had other Suits against Kennedy besides my Distress ⟨wch⟩ may possibly be the cause of the Sheriffs delay in Serving it. You disappointed us greatly in not seeing you down according to...
4From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 3 December 1772 (Washington Papers)
I was in great hopes to have met with you at Fredricksburg, or seen you at this place on your way up but it would almost seem as if you had foresworn this part of the Country. I have taken the liberty of troubling you with the Inclosed Letter to Doctr Briscoe & beg that you will take a copy of it, and serve him with the original when it happens to suit your convenience —I have also by Colo...
5From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 4 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
On the 1st Instt I receivd a Letter from Mr Snickers informing me that Isaac Larew had Enterd the Land calld Sanford’s, Claimd by my Brother Charles, or some of you, and will push for a Deed from Lord Fairfax for it—I should suppose (tho. Snickers adds it is carrying on very slyly) that you cannot be altogether unacquainted with his design, but for fear you should, this Letter is intended to...
6From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 20 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to your request I am now set down to write to you, although in the first place I have scarce time to indulge an Inclination of the kind, and in the next place do not know how or whether it may ever get to your hands. I came to this place the 2d Instant & found a numerous army of Provencials under very little command, discipline, or order—I found our Enemy who had drove our People...
7From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 30 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 6th Instt by Mr Hite came safe to hand, and gave me the pleasure of hearing that you, my Sister, & Family were well —I find also that one of my Letters had reached you, which is more than I expected (notwithstanding I have wrote you several) as I learn by my last Letters from home, that neither Mrs Washington, nor Lund, had received a Line from me since the 27th of July,...
8From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 1 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
I have understood from a Letter which Genl Gates has receivd, that you had thoughts of purchasing a Mill from Mr Jacob Hite —Let me Intreat you to consider the Matter well before you bargain—I have understood that this is a very expensive piece of Work—that the Dam has already gone off once or twice &, independently of this, the Work, from the extensiveness of them, is, & must be, costly—To...
9From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 5 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
Altho the multiplicity of Ingagements which employ all my waking hours, will not allow me to corrispond with my Friends with that freedom and punctuality I could wish, they may nevertheless be assured that neither time—distance—or change of Circumstances have, in the smallest degree altered the Affection I have ever entertained for them. Your favour of the 16th of last Month came safe to hand...
10From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 18 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 26th Ulto intended to have come by Captn Thomas Rutherford was delivered to me by Mr Vale. Crawford who will also be the bearer of this Letter to you. I wrote you last Week under cover to Lund Washington (who I desired to forward it by a safe hand) a long Letter, containing a full Acct of our Matters in this Quarter; to this, & the bearer, I must refer you for further...
11From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 20 November 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Samuel Washington, c.20 Nov. 1776. In his letter to Samuel Washington of 18 Dec. , GW wrote: “I think my last to you was from Hackinsack about the 20th of Novr .”
12From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 18 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
In the number of Letters which necessity compels me to write, the recollection of any particular one is destroyed, but I think my last to you was from Hackinsack about the 20th of Novr. Since that period, and a little before our affairs took an adverse turn but not more than was to be expected from the unfortunate measures which had been adopted for the establishment of our Army. The Retreat...
13From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 15 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Gentlemen returning from Camp will, I expect, be so overburthened with News, that you will scarce know the want of it for a Month to come. to them therefore I refer you with this assurance of mine, as an opinion, that Genl Howe will move towards Philadelphia the moment the Roads become passable for his Artillery and Baggage. I got Thornton Inoculated on Wednesday Week. he has had the...
14From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 5 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
Thornton returns to you well recover’d of the Small Pox, as I hope to hear that my Sister, and the rest of your family are. I heartily congratulate you on the favourable manner in which you had it yourself. To save Thornton, or you, the expence of buying a Horse to ride home on, I have lent him a Mare of Mine which I beg of you to have sent by any safe conveyance which may offer to Lund...
15From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 10 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter by Captn Rice, without date, came to my hands last night. when my last was dated, or from whence, I cannot at this time recollect; but with truth can assure, that it is not owing to a want of Inclination that you do not hear from me oftener—nor is it altogether to be ascribed to the hurry of business in which I am immerc’d; but to your living out of the Post Road, and my want of...
16From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 27 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter by my Nephew Thornton, begun on the 20th of last Mo. and ended the 22d came safe to my hands. I am very glad Colo. Lewis purchased a Lott or two for me at the Warm Springs, as it was always my Intention to become a Proprietor there if a Town should be laid off at that place. Two Lotts is not more than I wish’d to possess, but if he is altogether disappointed, and cannot be...
17From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 22 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
This Letter will be delivered to you, I expect, by Colo. Thruston; from whom you will be able to receive a more circumstantial Acct of the situation of Affairs in this Quarter than can be conveyed well, in a Letter. We have been kept in an anxious state of Suspence respecting the designs of the Enemy; nor are we able, at this time, to form any precise Ideas and judgment of their ultimate...
18From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 31 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 31st Ult. came to my hands by the last Post, from Philadelphia—It gave me much concern to find by it, that you were in such bad health. I hope this, if it should arrive safe, will find you much amended. It is a considerable time since I wrote to you —in truth it is rare for me to put pen to paper for private corrispondencies, so much is my time and attention engrossed by...
19From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 12 July 1797 (Washington Papers)
I perceive by your letter of the 7th Instant that you are under the same mistake that many others are, in supposing that I have money always at Command. The case is so much the reverse of it, that I found it expedient before I retired from public life to sell all my Lands (near 5000 Acres) in Pennsylvania in the Counties of Washington and Fayette, and my lands in the Great Dismal swamp in...
20From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 31 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
Into what channel you put your letter of the 7th of November—is not for me to say, but this I can add, that it never came to my hands until the 13 th Instant; when, if you had put it into any Post-Office, it would have been received at this place in three or four days, and whilst I was in Philadelphia in three or four days more. It is of little avail, to investigate now, what has produced the...
21From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 2 April 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 28th of last Month came to my hands last night. Inconvenient as it is to me (and nothing can be more so, than it is at this time) to part with what little money I have in the Bank of Alexandria; yet, rather than suffer your Negros to be taken in Execution, and sold perhaps at half price, I will answer your draughts to the amount of One thousand dollars, but not one cent...
22From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 22 September 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your letter, announcing the death of my Brother, came to hand last night. One from Colo. Ball, informing me of that event, arrived the evening before. I very sincerely condole with your mother and the family on this occasion. But as death, in this case, was regular in its approaches; and evident, long before it happened; she, and all of you, must have been prepared for the stroke. Of course,...