We the undersigned, appointed a committee by a meeting at Lindsays store, on Saturday the 12th Instant, and authorised to solicit the cooperation of Committees in other parts of the County, to receive such contributions as the Patriotism and Generosity of the Citizens of our County may suggest,...
How truly welcome wou’d have been your kind favor of Augst 18th if it had not intimated your want of health your long silence induced me to think all was not as I wish’d with you, or that you had left the city on some excursion, that Idea, prevented my writing to appease my anxiety tho I felt...
This Indenture made on the 5th day of October 1812 between Christian Wertenbaker and Mary his wife on the One part & of Thomas Jefferson Randolph on the other part Witnesseth that in consideration of the sum of Twenty Dollars in hand paid by Thomas Mann Randolph the father of the said...
I have waited a long time in vain for an answer my dear Mrs Bache to my last letter, I will not think you have forgotten me, as the idea would be productive of real unhappiness but will account for it in some other way: I live so retir’d a life & have in the general way so little to...
This Indenture made on this twentieth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, Between John W Eppes and Jerman Baker executors and trustees of the late Francis Eppes esquire of Eppington in the county of Chesterfield, of the one part, and Archibald Thweatt formerly of Petersburg...
With pleasure my dear Aunt do I take up my pen to acknowledge your favour dated 6th December and assure you of my unfeigned thanks for the agreeable intelligence it conveyed spending your time to your satisfaction must be truly pleasing to a mind formed to enjoy congenial society such as you...
It is a long time My ever dear friend since I have had the satisfaction of hearing from you; hope indisposition has not caused your long silence not a day passes without thinking of you and shou’d write to you more frequently, but the fear of being too obtrusive, deters me, I want to hear if this...
I met Mr Norvel on Friday last who told me that your cousin Wayles and yourself were well and had written but that he had forgotten your letters and left them on his table at home. I have not heard from your grand papa since you left us. Robert Bolling is still at home—His Father means to try and...
Since the receipt of your kind letter my dear friend I have been very ill, which must plead my excuse for having so long delay’d to answer it. my health is now restored, or nearly so, & with pleasure I hasten to thank you for your prompt attention to my wishes—Poor Don Felix! I am truly sorry...
The last mail did not bring me a letter from you my darling Nicholas—I suppose you wrote to your grandmother Trist, who has the tenderest affection for you and you are the dearest object she has in this world, I feel confident you will never neglect giving every proof in your power of that...
Lieut Peyton has been ordered to recruit at Charlottesville, & I avail myself of the Opportunity of introducing him to your Acquaintance, as one of the more promising young officers of your Regiment— I have to day sent off a company to join Lt Col: Preston’s Detachment, which with the two...
A thousand thanks, My Dr Girl, for your kind letter of the 6th Feby, which I shou’d have acknowledged sooner had I not written to your Mother so recently. I shou’d have enjoy’d your sprightly strain if it had not been attended with an account of your want of health, a circumstance that really...
I am vexed and disappointed my beloved child at the departure of Farlan without my knowledge I took the trouble of sending three times to the river to desire he would not go without takikng a trunk which I had prepared for you, containing two pairs of pantaloons, a jacket, a latin Dictionary and...
When Chs L. Bankhead, mentioned that T. J. Randolph was gone to Warren—Ann. C. Bankhead expressed her utter astonishment—said that he had promised to go there no more, and had told her Cousin William the same thing. Mr. B said he was certainly gone with Dr. Carr, and was determined during this...
The miscarriages of the post I suppose has been the cause of my receiving no news from you for it is three months since I have received any I have had a fever but am now & totally recovered. I hope that you are well in good health as well as all my Dear cousins. The fourth of July was...
Doctor Mitchell will join you at Baltimore with the men of your company who were left at Fort Warburton sick and afterwards removed here. Two of them have chronical complaints and will be sent on to remain at the nearest recruiting rendezvous of the 20th Regiment, untill they get well or desire...
You will assemble the recruits & other parts of your Regiment whether in Virginia or Maryland & march them to Sackets harbor or to Fort George as Gen. Wilkinson may direct. The Sunbury (Pena) route will be the best. At Avon the roads to the two posts indicated, meet. I am Sir, with great...
After mature reflection I deem it inexpedient, to direct the immediate march of Capt Pollards Company, pursuant to the orders given by the Secretary of War, in his letter to you of the 11th Instant. Apprized some days ago of ...
Written immediately on my return home from the South West Mountains, and addressed to Miss R……h The Mountain tops no more appear All glitt’ring to mine eyes; For me no more they mark the year, Rich in Autumnal dyes. Mountains and Vales that charm’d my view, These I have left behind; But more...
TO MISS R******H, On her presenting me Godwin’s St. Leon as a mark of Friendship. An off’ring made at Friendship’s shrine, Must ever sacred be; Then know, sweet Girl! this pledge of thine, Shall much be prized by me. Yes, I will read it, o’er and o’er, Marking the Moral page, Which breathes like...
I hope you will have the goodness to pardon an unfortunate stranger in presuming to indrude himself on your notice, without his having heretofore had the honour or pleasure of your acquaintance, but under existing circumstances I flatter myself with the belief the you will readily pardon this...
General Orders. Capt. John Ritchie’s company of 2d Regt. of Artillery, now in Garrison at Fort Washington on the Potomac, will be relieved on the 18th Inst. by a Detachment from the 36th Regt. Infty—Consisting of one Captain, one first Lieut. one Second Lieut. & one third Lieut: five...
The feelings of a father for a beloved Son, urges me to address you in his behalf—You have the Command of the 20th Infantry in which Regt my Son George Evans holds the rank of a lieutenant, he is very young, of an ardent Temper & may often want the Councel & advice of more experiend Years...
You may perhaps be surprised at seeing my letter of this date My Mother who is now Madame St Julien Tournillon has been married to a gentleman of that name sent for me to be at the marriage. He is a very amiable man and will send Browse to College with me and I am very happy to find a...