1From Thomas Jefferson to Joshua Fry, 8 March 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 25. came to hand ten days ago. I mentioned, if you recollect, that Hopkins would come here if [three] persons would take each of them a patent licence (at £50.) [each?] or if one would undertake the business on partnership account. The former was what I should have undertaken, as I meditated to have the whole benefit proceeding from my own timber. Since you were here, Mr....
2From George Washington to Joshua Fry, 23 May 1754 (Washington Papers)
This day I returned from my discoveries down the Youghiogany, which, I am sorry to say, can never be made navigable. We traced the watercourse near thirty miles, with the full expectation of succeeding in the much desired aim; but, at length, we came to a fall, which continued rough, rocky, and scarcely passable, for two miles, and then fell, within the space of fifty yards, nearly forty feet...
3From George Washington to Joshua Fry, 29 May 1754 (Washington Papers)
This by an imediate express, I send to infm you that Yesterday I engagd a party of French whereof 11 were kill’d and 20 taken with the loss of only 1 of mine killd and 2 or 3 wounded among which was Lieutt Waggener: by some of their Paper’s we can discover that large detachts are expected every day, which we may reasonably suppose are to attack us especially since we have began. This is...