1From George Washington to William Grayson, 12 December 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Grayson, 12 Dec. 1774. On 27 Dec. Grayson wrote GW : “I had the honor of your favor of the 12th of this instant.”
2From James Madison to William Grayson, ca. 15 August 1787 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. ca. 15 August 1787. Acknowledged in Grayson to JM, 31 Aug. 1787 . Requests Grayson to promote the appointment of Major George Turner to a position in the government of the Northwest Territory.
3From George Washington to William Grayson, 9 July 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Grayson, 9 July 1785. GW wrote in his diary on 9 July that on that day he wrote and gave Arnold Henry Dohrman a letter to Grayson ( Diaries Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington . 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. , 4:163 ).
4From George Washington to Col. William Grayson, 12 April 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Col. William Grayson, 12 April 1777. Tench Tilghman docketed Grayson’s letter to GW of 1 April in part: “Ansd 12th April.”
5From James Madison to William Grayson, 29 May 1785 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 29 May 1785. Mentioned by Grayson in his letter to JM, 27 June 1785 . JM to James Monroe, 7 August 1785 , notes that he had answered Grayson’s letter of 1 May 1785 with suggestions concerning the revision of Article IX of the Articles of Confederation.
6From George Washington to William Grayson, 2 April 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Grayson, 2 April 1775. On 5 April Grayson wrote GW that he had “the honor of your favor of the 2nd of Aprill.”
7From George Washington to Col. William Grayson, 1 March 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Col. William Grayson, 1 Mar. 1777. Grayson wrote to GW on 1 April : “I wrote you by the last post an answer to your letter of the first of March from Morris town.”
8From James Madison to William Grayson, ca. 7 November 1786 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. ca. 7 November 1786. Mentioned in Grayson’s letter of 22 November to JM . Referred to the election of the Virginia delegates to Congress and inquired after Grayson’s health.
9Colonels Charles O’Hara and Humphrey Stephens, and Captain Richard FitzPatrick to Colonel William Grayson, Lieutenant … (Hamilton Papers)
We have reported to Sir Wm. Howe your observations on his Commission to us for settling a Cartel for the Exchange of Prisoners; therefore if it will not be inconvenient, We will beg the favor of you to stay in German Town ’till ten o’clock, at which time We will do ourselves the honor of waiting on you to lay before you Sir Wm: Howe’s Sentiments on that matter. We are Gentlemen With due...
10Rufus King to William Grayson and Madison, 11 March 1787 (Madison Papers)
Extra[c]t of a Letter from a Gentleman in Boston of the 4th. March 1787. to R King— “—— has come back from Virginia with News that the Commissioners on the part of New York alarmed the Virginia Delegates, with an account that the Commissioners on the part of Massachusetts were for a monarchy ; & that those Delegates wrote their Legislature of it, who shut their Galaries and made a most serious...