1. White again wrote GW from Washington on Wednesday, 20 July: “I returned to this place and took my Seat at the Board on Monday morning—Our Crops over the mountain are very fine. the Harvest being great and the labourers few rendered the securing our grain a tedious business. there was still some uncut, and much standing out, the end of last week. Mr Ames and Mr Rundle were highly pleased with that Country, they said it far exceeded their expectations; they went from Winchester to Bath where I heard they were yesterday week” (ALS, DLC:GW). Massachussetts congressman Fisher Ames wrote New Hampshire congressman Jeremiah Smith from Dedham, Mass., on 4 Sept.: “I saw Virginia, and it is not in a state to brag of; the land is good, but the inhabitants scattered, and as bad farmers as politicians. … A federal party is certainly rising up there, and though (as a party) it is the weaker, the citizens are now more impressible by them than by the Jacobins” (Ames, Works, description begins Seth Ames, ed. Works of Fisher Ames with a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence. 2 vols. 1854. Reprint. New York, 1971. description ends 1: 198–99).

Philadelphia merchant Richard Rundle (c.1747–1826) was a friend of Ames and may have been his travelling companion (see Ames to Richard Peters, 14 Dec. 1806, in Ames, Works, description begins Seth Ames, ed. Works of Fisher Ames with a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence. 2 vols. 1854. Reprint. New York, 1971. description ends 1:377–78).

White next wrote GW from Washington on 29 July: “I informed you of my return to the City on the morning of Monday Se’night—Next Tuesday being Frederick Court where I expect several trials will come on at which my presence will be essential, I shall set out for Virginia this afternoon or early tomorrow morning, from whence I mean to return in time to take my Seat at the Board on Monday the 8th of August; the last week of that month it will be equally necessary for me to attend Berkeley Court, and it would be a very desirable thing to remain in that Country during the whole month, as the state of Mrs Whites health renders it necessary for her to go to Bath, I should wish to accompany her, and indeed it is not much less necessary for me than for her to spend some time there—I have been accustomed to do so at least every other year for 30 yrs. I have already omitted two successive seasons—and will omit the third rather than incur the imputation of neglect, at a time when so much is said about the non residence of the Commissioners—altho I consider those Waters as the great preservative of my health, particularly against the Rheumatism, of which I had a severe attack eleven years ago, and feel very serious symptoms of its return” (ALS, DLC:GW).

White’s second wife was Sarah Cotter Hite White (c.1750–1830), widow of John Hite.