Box 66
Container
Contains 12 Results:
John Augustine Washington III, Mount Vernon, to Dennis Johnston, West Grove, 1844 December 22
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1844.12.22
Identifier: 2017-SC-008-007
Scope and Contents
Retained copy of letter written by John Augustine Washington III to Fairfax County magistrate and landowner Dennis Johnston. In the letter, John Augustine states that based on a conversation with West Ford he believes Johnston is misinformed about the terms of Johnston's contract for cutting, hauling, and cording wood on the Mount Vernon estate.
Dates:
1844 December 22
Jane C. Washington to John Augustine Washington III, Mount Vernon, 1844 July 16
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1844.07.16
Identifier: 2017-SC-008-009
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter intialed with integral address panel. Jane writes about the baptism of John Augustine's daughter Louisa and other family news, including the sale of Selby by Hannah Lee Washington and the marriage of her son Richard to his cousin Christian Maria. She also writes about crops and finding a good overseer. She adds, "I am very sorry you cannot commence the repairs at [Mount Vernon] this autumn. The buildings are getting in ruinous condition."
Dates:
1844 July 16
R. D. Coverte, Brooklyn, to John Augustine Washington III, Mount Vernon, 1844 October 14
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1844.10.14
Identifier: 2018-SC-086-001
Scope and Contents
R. D. Coverte writes from Brooklyn following a visit to Mount Vernon in which he got the impression that John Augustine did not want to become a planter. Coverte inquires if he can rent Mount Vernon and 500 surrounding acres for a fair price.
Dates:
1844 October 14
Manuscripts Box 66, June 1844 - October 1845
Box — Box: 66
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection of historic manuscripts dates from 1607-1933, with the bulk of materials dating from 1738-1868. The correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial records, estate documents, and printed ephemera in the collection primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia.
Portions of this collection have been digitized, as noted in the item-level descriptions.
Portions of this collection have been digitized, as noted in the item-level descriptions.
Dates:
June 1844 - October 1845
N. Herbert, Leesburg, to John Augustine Washington III, 1845 February 11
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1845.02.11, Folder: OUT
Identifier: 2018-SC-076-001
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed. N. Herbert, a cousin of John Augustine, writes about Alfred, an enslaved man who escaped from Mount Vernon and voluntarily surrendered himself to the Loudon County Jail in Leesburg. Herbert writes that slave traders Joseph Bruin of Alexandria and William Bale of Exeter were inquiring about Alfred but recommends that Augustine keep him.
Dates:
1845 February 11
West Ford, Mount Vernon, to John Augustine Washington III, Blakeley, 1844 September 6
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1844.09.06
Identifier: 2017-SC-010-002
Scope and Contents
West Ford reports on illnesses at Mount Vernon: "i am very sorry to say to you that we have had a great deal of sickness Jessie Clark was take the 3 day of the month he was as crazy as he could be he did not know any person i had to send for doctor Powel." He also mentions that Jim Mitchell has been "laid up" and that July and Hannah, though "not yet confined," have been scarcely able to work. Andrew is also still sick. Ford also reports that he has begun breaking up and clearing land but has...
Dates:
1844 September 6
Joseph Bruin, Alexandria, to John Augustine Washington III, 1845 August 8
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1845.08.08
Identifier: 2017-SC-010-004
Scope and Contents
Letter from Alexandria slave dealer Joseph Bruin of the firm Bruin and Hill to John Augustine Washington III regarding an enslaved man named Gabriel who escaped from Mount Vernon and is now being held at Bruin's Slave Jail. Bruin writes, "I have to inform you of what I am willing to pay for your man now in my Jail we will give you $565 neat for him at this time if the prices should improve we are willing to pay what ever the prices may be but when you come down I am inclined to think we...
Dates:
1845 August 8
Henry P. Hill, Alexandria, to John Augustine Washington III, 1845 August 19
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1845.08.19
Identifier: 2017-SC-010-005
Scope and Contents
Letter from Alexandria slave dealer Henry P. Hill of the firm Bruin and Hill writing to John Augustine Washington III about an enslaved man named Gabriel who has escaped from Mount Vernon and is being held at Bruin's Slave Jail. Hill writes, "your man Gabriel by strict measurement is five feet five and a half inches... He is likely and a very good man of his stature and if you are offered more than we priced him at I think if you will excuse a stranger for the expression of his opinion in all...
Dates:
1845 August 19
Joseph McFarland, Mount Vernon, to John Augustine Washington III, 1845 August 3
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1845.08.03
Identifier: 2018-SC-058-003
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed. John Augustine's overseer, Joseph McFarland, writes that he has had "a great deal of difficulty" with the enslaved worker Gabriel Johnson and has had to put Gabriel in Bruin's Slave Jail in Alexandria.McFarland describes a scene in which Gabriel was "cursing & fighting" against some horses, and then began cursing McFarland when McFarland took the horse whip away from Gabriel. McFarland writes, "I put him with Mr. Bruen at 25 cts a day. Mr. Bruen thinks he would...
Dates:
1845 August 3
Gabriel Johnson, Alexandria, to John Augustine Washington III, 1845 August 6
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1845.08.06
Identifier: 2018-SC-058-004
Scope and Contents
Letter in the hand of Henry P. Hill, likely dictated by Gabriel Johnson from Bruin's Slave Jail in Alexandria. Gabriel tells his side of the story following an disagreement with Joseph McFarland, John Augustine's overseer at Mount Vernon. According to Gabriel, McFarland threatened to whip him, but Gabriel "told him that he could not whip me as I did not think any person but my master out to do it or at least to authorize it." McFarland tied Gabriel up, but he escaped. When he was recaptured, he...
Dates:
1845 August 6
Jared Sparks, Cambridge, to John Augustine Washington III, Mount Vernon, 1844 June 5
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1844.06.05
Identifier: 2017-SC-008-004
Scope and Contents
Letter from historian and George Washington biographer Jared Sparks to John Augustine Washington III proposing he write a life of Lawrence Washington. Sparks writes "I was already acquainted with the principal incidents in the life of Lawrence Washington, and although the papers would not seem to furnish materials for a biography of much extent, yet I think a Life of moderate length might be written, which would be interesting and fill a proper space in the 'Library of American Biography.' If...
Dates:
1844 June 5
H. T. Harrison, Leesburg, to John Augustine Washington III, 1845 July 14
Item — Box: 66, Folder: 1845.07.14
Identifier: 2018-SC-016-001
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed. Harrison declines buying an enslaved woman named Julia from Augustine, claiming "she will not suit at all."
Dates:
1845 July 14
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