Newly arrived from the successful siege of Boston, George Washington writes to the New York Committee of Safety regarding its fellow citizens engaged in trading with the British.Continue Reading
Secretary of the TreasuryAlexander Hamilton, in keeping with his tenacious spirit, writes a detailed and lengthy letter to President George Washington regarding “a great, a difficult & perilous crisis in the affairs of this country.”Continue Reading
Born of modest, lesser gentry, no one would ever have guessed that this son of a frontier tobacco grower would go down in history as one of the most important and influential men America ever produced.Continue Reading
George Washington’s father, Augustine, died, leaving his eleven-year-old son Ferry Farm, several lots in Fredericksburg, and ten slavesContinue Reading
President Washington sent a letter to the painter Gilbert Stuart inquiring whether he was to come to his residence to sit for a portrait.Continue Reading
On April 10, 1789, George Washington is notified by letter at Mt. Vernon of his election as the first ever President of the United States.Continue Reading
Sixteen-year-old George Washington, nearing the end of his survey expedition with his neighbor, George William Fairfax, pens an entry in his journal.Continue Reading
