541To George Washington from Robert Rutherford, 28 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
I am hond by your excellency’s letter of the 8th instant, and am very unhappy in not Complying with your utmost wish, & at the Same time to have acted up to the warm & grateful dictates of my own heart on the occasion. The very great & unequal loss of at least £10,000 Specie Value Sustained by the Continental money not to mention the entire neglect of every domestic Concern, the whole time of...
542To George Washington from James Rumsey, 29 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
This will be handed to you by Mr Brindley, we have had the pleasure of his, and Mr Harris’s Company Since yesterday, and they Boath approve of what is Done and proposed Here. On Sunday Evening the 26th of this Inst. I Receivd your fovor of the 20th Respecting The Conduct of the people working here, It Distress me that you had Accation to Write on Such a Subject. what follows is as near what...
543From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 30 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
Having had cause, lately, to apprehend a miscarriage of the letter of which the inclosed is a duplicate, I do myself the honor of forwarding this copy, as the best apology I can make for a silence that might, otherwise, be ascribed to motives of inattention; wch would give me pain; as I have pleasure in your corrispondence, and would wish to keep up a friendly intercourse with you by letter....
544From George Washington to John Fitzgerald and George Gilpin, 31 March–2 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday Mr Brindley, in company with a Mr Harris (Manager for the James River company, and sent by the Directors thereof for the former) left this on their way to Richmond: from whence Mr Brindley expected to be returned as far as Alexandria, by the 4th of next Month. I have engaged him to call upon Colo. Gilpin on his rout back. Mr Brindley and Mr Harris took the Great Falls in their way...
545To George Washington from Noah Webster, 31 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
I am happy in the opportunity, which Mr Lee’s politeness has offered, of presenting Your Excellency a copy of Mr Dwights Poem. Whatever faults may be found in this performance, its merit cannot fail to recommend it to every friend of America & of virtue. I flatter myself that in three or four weeks I shall be able to furnish you with an Instructor, as several Gentlemen will assist me in...
546To George Washington from John Wilton, 31 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
peruseing the Bath peaper of this week I saw A Letter of your Exelencesees Adress to Mrs Mackauley Where you seemes to Desier to heave A Engelish farmer Ingeaged, to Come to America, Wich has been long my Desier, Not only to Come to America but to bee A Real subject of that Cunterye, I am A young man twenty Six years of Age Never was from my father, who was all his life a farmer, and Rents...