Letter, from Lund Washington, 1755

Containers:

Box 36, Folder 1755.10.15

Scope and content:

Letter to be delivered by Mr. Harrison who accepts invitation to camp--lists letters received from G.W.; never received others--some "villon" is intercepting letters--mentions construction & appearance of "wash house" which G.W. does not intend as a wash house--Jenifer Adams has sold timber off land--bad rains washed out nearly completed tumbling dam--coopers & miller again at work on it--sowing wheat delayed by rains--Bennett Jenkins from western lands arrived--claims Simpson & Crawford didn't pay him--paid in Pa. currency--Simpson & son coming to Mt.V.--bought 6M 20d nails and 4000 ft. of inch plank--"by the time the House is finishd that is now just Raised, we shall not have one foot of inch & 1/4 plank left beside what is put away for the addition of the great House"--bricklayers doing garden wall & chimney of wash house--stucco man still working on dining room--"the ceily. is not clumsey, I think it light & handsome it is altogether worck'd by Hand which makes it tedius - as to puty. down the plaster in the new Room, it will not make two days odds in his doing the Room, for he can plaister in one day more than our two men can in a week.--if the sides is done in plain stoco it will not take him long, as to the seilg. I can form no judgment how long it will take him ..."--Mrs. W. wants it finished so she can get into it this winter--she will talk to Col. [Fielding] Lewis about it--Webster making bricks--John [Broad] & the taylor & negroes sick--Mrs. W. not afraid of [Lord] Dunmore--valuables packed in trunks to be moved quickly if necessary--his papers will be sent away anyway--Sears still sick.

Language:

English.

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