A few days after the receipt of your letter of the 10th last Month enclosing some orders for me to collect for you, my young Man sat off for Westmoreland, and has not yet returned, which put it out of my power to have them p… Continue Reading From Corbin Washington, 5 Jan. 1798

     Your letter by Mr Walter Jones covering the Transfer &c.

     You will now receive enclosed the Power of Attorney altered and put exactly in the form you desired, which I have been very much puzzled to get done in time to go down by Mr Jones— After I had picked out the Sheep & Catt… Continue Reading From Corbin Washington, 4 Feb. 1795

     I have been flattering myself for some months past that I should soon get the various business in which I am concerned so arranged as to have been permitted to have spent some little time with you at your own house; but all… Continue Reading From Corbin Washington, 27 Feb. 1795

     I should have written to you long ago, but my Wife has been so weak & unwell ever since we came home that I could not leave her long enough to ascertain with tolerable accuracy the number of Fruit Trees at Bushfield— The… Continue Reading From Corbin Washington, 14 Sept. 1795

     We are in the deepest Distress at this place at this Time— poor Judy Blackburn who was deliver'd about ten Days ago of Twins, died Yesterday about Noon at the Mother's just as Mrs Blackburn & I had got to Dumfries to see… Continue Reading From Thomas Blackburn, 21 Oct. 1795

     Your letter of the 26 Septr never reached me until last monday, or I should have acknowledged the receipt of it before now— I am exceedingly obliged to you for the trouble you have taken respecting my advertisements, and esp… Continue Reading From Corbin Washington, 31 Oct. 1795

     Yours of the 7th of the present month I found at Hay Wood the day before yesterday enclosing an order drawn by Mr R. B. Carter, which, as well as your other business, shall be punctually attended to.

     In order to complete the conquest which Mrs Washington has happily made in part over her Attachment to Laudanum, it will be proper for her to continue to lessen the dose of it gradually Until she ceases to take it altogether… Continue Reading From Benjamin Rush, 2 May 1812

     Your last letter, in addition to the statement made me by Geo. Washington, will induce me to dismiss Bushrods Suit against you, & to take the provision made by his fathers will in discharge of the Sum which Colo.… Continue Reading To Robert Beverley, 28 March 1813

The grand Sachem, one of your acknowledged Uncles, not having been much accustomed to admiralty proceedings has propounded a question to me, about which he entertains some doubt, and wi… Continue Reading To Richard Peters, 19 July 1813

     I have the pleasure of addressing to you this note, to serve as a memorandum of—what possibly in the multiplicity of more important engagements might for a time escape your recollection—the conversation we held and the promi… Continue Reading From Charles Caldwell, 13 May 1814

I have not yet completed my Circuit & shall defer to a future time a statement of the decisions which have been already made— My present object in writing is to ascertain what has been the practice, if any, in the District or circuit Courts of… Continue Reading From Joseph Story, 11 Nov. 1816

     In Consequence of your letter of the 18th of May <mutilated> my Nephew, I have authorised my friend Mr Andrew Parks of <mutilated> County to dispose of my 400 acres of Land on Kenhawa on such <mutilated… Continue Reading To Thomas Newman, 18 June 1817