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- GLC#
- GLC07546
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 5 May 1787
- Author/Creator
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Title
- to David Stuart
- Place Written
- Mount Vernon, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23.2 cm, Width: 18.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Washington thanks Stuart for his observations on the fitness of the Potomac for the fur trade with China. Asks if Stuart has informed Colonel John Fitzgerald and Colonel Howe of his observations and inquires if he gave them reason to believe those ideas "would be recommended to Mr. Jefferson?" Washington also writes that he will soon journey to Philadelphia by way of Annapolis (to attend the Constitutional Convention). Discusses a debt owed to him by Stuart. Washington desires payment in bills that will not cause delay, because he wants to use the money to pay a debt and buy some goods.
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