From George Washington
10th Feby 1796
Dr Bushrod,
Go: Washington
Your are very welcome to a part of the Guinea—or Chinese Hogs which you saw at my Mill— But it is necessary to inform you, that except the Sow which you might have seen in a pen & her Pigs wch were running about it, I have none others, unmixed at that place. This happens from their running at large.
There is a Vessel now up (in this Port) for Norfolk & Richmond; to sail, by Advertisement, on Saturday. I mean therefore to send to <a> farm some distance from hence where mine came from, and if a supply can be had—and the Skipper will take them in—to send you half a dozen, or what I can get of the true breed, by her which will be much more convenient for you than sending to Mount Vernon for them.
If I succeed, I will write you again on this subject. Yours Affectly
ALS, CtY: Miscellaneous Collection, Annie Burr Jennings; Thomas Birch's Sons, Catalog 663, item 259.