I have the Satisfaction of forwarding to you a Draught on the Agent of the Dis: Swamp Co[mpan]y for sixteen hundred Dollars. Your letter for me to represent you at the general Meeting of the D.S.

Upon the receipt of your letter I communicated to the intended purchaser my being impowered to sell, and at same time informed him, that I was offered at the rate of One Hundred dollars more, by Mr Minton, for your undivided thir… Continue Reading From Robert Barraud Taylor, 30 Sept. 1812

Some days ago my nephew Bush. Washington conveyed property to me in Trust for the payment of his debts.

I have just returned home from a meeting of the Proprietors of the D. S. land Company which was held at Suffolk last week; and now forward to you the managers Dft on their Treasurer at Norfolk for eighteen hundred Dollars.… Continue Reading From James Henderson, 21 May 1817

I regret extremely that I did not, until yesterday, receive your fav.

     On receipt of your Last letter I wrote to Mr Doddridge requesting to know at what time & place I could see him, when I would attend with the papers for his inspection, that he might make up… Continue Reading From Archibald McClean, 12 Jan. 1824

     I have just received by yesterday’s mail your favor of the 15th instant.

     In a late official communication by Govr Troup to the Legislature of Georgia, I find myself charged with having maintained before the Supreme Court of the United States, at the last term,… Continue Reading From William Wirt, 2 July 1825

Your letter of the 13th inst. did not reach me until last Saturday, and I now reply to it by the first mail from Charles City Court house.

I wrote to you some months since in reply to a letter of yours on the subject of your concerns in the Dismal S. Land Company. You were desirous I should deposit your dividends in th branch bank of Va.

After an absence of six weeks I returned here yesterday and found your favor of the 3d inst[ant].

I have just returned from Clarksburg while there I examined the record in the case of Cresap vs. M Lean, which I find is complete.

     As my official engagements occupy too much of my time to permit me to answer your separate letters, you must receive this conjointly, and it affords me great pleasure to assure you, in the… Continue Reading To Spotswood Augustine Washington & George Washington, 25 Feb. 1827

     Inclosed is a copy of so much of a record of a suit between Crisp and Holiman in Cumberland County Court, as contains the point now in controversy, and which is submitted to you, on this question—Can judgment of the Co… Continue Reading From Creed Taylor, 7 Feb. 1796

With much respect for your personal character & with such freedom, as I may presume to take with your official character as President of the Colonization Society, I now address you.

In march last I reported the case of Alexander vs. Washington for which my fee amounted to $11:23 of which I wrote you & have not since been favoured with a reply. With much respect yr obt Srt

     I take the liberty of availing myself of your kind offer in behalf of Mrs Jones and if you will beso good as to send one of your servants with the bearer to point out the Houhound, I shall bemuch obliged to you.… Continue Reading From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, [1796-1798]

This is doubtless one of the finest Islands in the West Indies, whether we consider its general Soil, ... capable of bearing all the productions of the Tropics in the richest abundance; its variety of Climate, ...… Continue Reading From John Fanning Watson, 4 Dec. 1818

Agreeable to an order of the Prest.

J. Madison presents his respects to Judge Washington, and encloses the memorandum of Mr Taylor, with such additions as will give all the information necessary on the law stated by Judge Washington.