68341From George Washington to Myles Cooper, 15 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
The favourable account you was pleas’d to transmit me of Mr Custis’s conduct at College, gave me very great satisfaction; & I hoped to have felt an increase of it by his continuance at that place under a Gentleman so capable of instructing him in every branch of useful knowledge, as you are: but these hopes are at an end; & at length, I have yielded, contrary to my judgment, & much against my...
68342From George Washington to Edward Snickers, 15 December 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Edward Snickers, 15 Dec. 1773. On 2 Feb. 1774 Snickers wrote GW : “I Receved youres Dated 15 of Desember.”
68343From George Washington to John Vardill, 15 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Had I not expected to have acknowledged the rect of your obliging favor of Septemr last by the return of Mr Custis I shou’d not have remained silent ’till now. The pleasure which I received from your favourable account of this young Gentleman’s conduct at College cou’d only have been increased by his continuance at that place, & in the same pursuits—But this is at an end, and I am obliged to...
68344From George Washington to William Milnor, 16 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Leaving home about the middle of Octr for Williamsburg and not returng to it again till Thursday last, is the excuse I offer for not taking earlier notice of your favour of the 19th of October. I have now to thank you for the Boulting Cloth you sent me wch is exceeding good & very applicable to the use it was designd. I have also to thank you for your care of the Goods brought in by Captn Cox...
68345To George Washington from George Mason, 21 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
The embarrass’d Situation of my Friend Mr Jas Mercer’s Affairs gives Me much more Concern than Surprize. I always feared that his Aversion to selling the Lands & Slaves, in Expectation of paying the Debts with the Crops & Profits of the Estate, whilst a heavy Interest was still accumulating, wou’d be attended with bad Consequences, independant of his Brother’s Difficultys in England; having...
68346To George Washington from Francis Willis, Jr., 22 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
I thank you for your Trouble of contriving up a Sum of Money which I very much wanted, to enable me to dispatch five or six Hands out to Red Stone. If you have not had any information from Mr Thruston relative to that Country it may not be amis to inform you he is very much pleasd with it and I have understood particularly your property their, My Brother will start very soon & would gladly...
68347From George Washington to Sarah Bomford, 23 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Your tender feeling on account of the distressed Mrs Savage is exceedingly praiseworthy; & your last favor of the 21st of Septr, which is just come to hand, exhibits a pleasing specimen of your humanity, & benevolent way of thinking. Apologies, in a cause like this, are entirely unnecessary; especially to a person, who conceives himself honored by your corrispondence, though begun, & like to...
68348To George Washington from John Connolly, 23 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
I am extremely sorry that I am forced to debar myself the pleasure of waiting upon you agreeable to my proposal & wish; but when you consider the Season of the year, & the distance I have before me, I hope I shall stand exculpated in your opinion. I have very luckily succeeded as far as I could well have expected, so that I have the satisfaction to find my Fatigue & trouble hath not been for...
68349To George Washington from John Armstrong, 24 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Your favours of the 28th Sepr from Annapolis, and that of the 10th Octobr from your Own House, I now most gratefully acknowledge, and shou’d have done it Sooner, had any promising conveyance occur’d. I have communicated your Sentiments and representation of the matter in question to sundry Gentlemen in Pennsylvania belonging to our reduc’d Tribe, who are all thankfully Sensible of that obvious...
68350To George Washington from George Muse, 24 December 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from George Muse, 24 Dec. 1773. On 29 Jan. 1774 GW wrote Muse : “Your impertinent Letter of the 24th ulto, was delivered to me yesterday.”