1. GW responded from Mount Vernon on 26 Feb. in a letter marked “Private”: “My dear Sir I received your letter of the 18th instant yesterday. You refer me to enclosed letters for information on the subject therein mentioned. One letter only came, and that under a Seal to General Lee, which I shall forward, unopened, tomorrow by my Nephew Mr Bushrod Washington, who is a neighbour of his.

“Having written to you yesterday both an Official, and private letter, I have only to add in this, that with sincere esteem and Affectionate regard I am—My dear Sir Always Yours Go: Washington” (ALS, DLC: Hamilton Papers; letterpress copy, DLC:GW). Hamilton had enclosed in his letter to Henry Lee of 18 Feb. a letter to Col. Thomas Parker, in which he provided for “the division of Virginia into four districts and Twenty sub-districts or company rendezvouses, designating a place in each for the head Quarters of the rendezvous” (Hamilton to GW, 27 Mar.; see also note 2 of that document). See Hamilton’s letter to Lee in Syrett, Hamilton Papers, description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends 22:486–87; see also GW to Hamilton, 10 April 1799.