From George Washington to Andrew Ellicott, 20 October 1792
To Andrew Ellicott
Philadelphia Oct. 20th 1792.
Sir,
The Honble Mr Cushing one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the U. States has some thought of passing through the Federal City in the Circuit he is about to make. Should this happen, I shall be obliged to you for shewing him such parts of it as he may incline to view.1 I am Sir Your very Hble Servt
Go: Washington
ALS, DSI.
1. William Cushing, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was currently riding the middle circuit, which consisted of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. On 23 Oct. he wrote John Jay from Newcastle, Del., that he intended to go “from Easton in Maryland for Kent [Island?], & thence across the Chesapeak an 8 or 9 mile ferry, to Annapolis, then to the federal city, perhaps buy a house lot there, & so onward to Richmond” ( 2:319).