941To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 2 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
Yr Letter of the 24th Ulto I recd—And as You observe the absolute Necessity of having a Company of Rangers, I agree to the raising sixty, seventy or 80 Men to be Commanded by Mr Rutherfurd, but You must be certain of his raising the Men, not to load the Country with a Charge, as formerly, without Men to the different Companies; I do not doubt of Yr keeping them strictly to their Duty—his Pay,...
942To George Washington from George Mercer, 2 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
Tho. I have not been favored with an Answer to one of the many Letters I have wrote you since I came here, yet I will not let any Opportunity slip, agreeable to my Promise; as I shall attribute this, to your Letters miscarrying, for I woud not suppose but you have wrote. Notwithstanding every Precaution which the Governor pretended he had taken, to have Us regularly paid, We have already been...
943To George Washington from John Robinson, 3 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
I received your favour by Brinker, and am sensibly affected with the Miserable Situation of the unhappy People in your part of the Country, and am greatly concerned at the uneasiness I know you suffer on their Acct in not having it [in] your Power to prevent their Miseries, or put a stop to the cruel and inhuman Murders committed upon them, I, and every Body else, must agree with you, that the...
944To George Washington from William Smith, 10 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
You’ll perceive your name in the list of those who ’tis hoped will encourage the enclosed Magazine, & I hope you’ll forgive the Liberty we have taken as you are placed in good Company & in a good design. Tis a work which may be rendered of very general Service to all the Colonies. We shall be under particular Obligations for every Subscriber you can procure, to give the work a general Run. I...
945Invoice from Richard Washington, 10 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
Invoice of Sundry Goods Shipd by Richd Washington on board the Peggy and Elizabeth, Jno. Whiting Master, bound to Virginia, on the proper Acct and risque of the Honble Geo. Washington. No. 1—A Cask £ . 2. 3 Six Inch brass casd Locks complt a 6/6 .19.6 3 Seven Inch ditto ditto a 7/6 1. 2.6 3 seven Inch brass coverplate ditto a 9/6 1. 8.6 3 eight Inch ditto ditto a 10/6 1.11.6 5 pr brass side...
946To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 14 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
Yr Letter of the 5th I duly recd & I am much surpriz’d at what You write that the Indn Affairs have been impeeded by a Train of Mismanagemt when I consider Mr Atkin’s Report that he had established every Thing in regard to those People in a most regular Manner I have wrote the Necessary to Ct. Gist on that Head, & order’d up a Quantity of Goods from Petersburg for that Service which I hope...
947To George Washington from William Peachey, 14 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
I received yr kind Letter of the 18th September about a Week ago, the Sight of which caused at almost the same Instant both a pleasing and disagreable Sensation; a pleasing, that I had so agreable a Frd and Correspondt; a disagreable, that I had once enjoy’d the Company of that Frd whom I had scarcely known to be such, but I lost the Sweets of a Friendship I had long and greatly desired, by...
948To George Washington from Robert Rutherford, 22 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
It is much against my desire, to give you trouble in your Circumstance; but as I am informed that it is your Misfortune not to be freed of Publick Business even now: I write you the Present Circumstance of the Company. I imagine by this time they are about 40 and as the Enemy is discovered Nigh Capn McKenzy’s, have Ordered Lieutt Swearingin with the men recruited by him, to scour the woods...
949To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 24 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
When big with the hopes of your speedy Recovery indulging myself in the pleasing thought and impatiently expecting the agreeable accot Jenkins handed me your very obliging & affectionate Epistle of the 20th Inst. But how great was my Disappointment on Accot of the bad State your obstinate & deeply rooted Disorder has reduc’d you to? I easily conceive how disagreeable it must be to a person of...
950To George Washington from James Craik, 25 November 1757 (Washington Papers)
The dissagreeable news I recd by Jenkins, of the Increase of your disorder, is real concern to me—I had been flatering my self with the Pleasant hope of seeing you here again soon—thinking that the change of Air, with the quiet Situation of Mount Vernon—would have been a Speedy means of your recovery—however as your disorder hath been of long Standing, and hath corrupted the whole mass of...