Hens. See Fowls.

INDEX

609

Hepburn & Dundas, letter to, 436; land dispute, 436.

Herbert, William, letters to, 250, 347, 351, 397; Washington's note, 250,
347, 351, 352, 397; land, 397, 442.

Hercules, slave cook, presidential mansion, 571, 573; fugitive, 578.

Herzog, John J., acknowledgment to, 568 n.

Hessian fly, as pest, 95, 338, 452.

Heth, William, letters to, 91, 205; Pinckney, reception, 91; selection of

officers, 205-207, 227, 228, 242n, 333.

Hickory nuts, trees for Thornton, 148.

Highlands, N. Y., occupation, 534.
Hill,, livery clothes, 576.

Hill, James, Washington's affairs, 500.

Hill, Rev. William, chaplaincy, 406, 413.

Hill, Wills. See Hillsborough.

Hillsborough, Wills Hill, earl of, Proclamation of 1763, 506.

Historical Review of Berks County, material from, 581 n.

Historical Society of Philadelphia, material from, 29n, 30n, 9on, 102,
119, 135, 186, 247, 406, 426, 430, 438, 474, 537 m, 559.

Hite,, cavalry appointment, 114.

Hite, Abraham, Kentucky land, 156.

Hite, John, account, 501.

Hite, Jost, estate, land claim, litigation and award, 567; bond, 568.
Hobbs Hole, Va., rendezvous, 181.

Hodge,, account, 500.

Hodgzard, William, bill of exchange, 509.

Hoff, Mrs. G. Whitney, material from collection, 496n.

Hogs, proposed gift, 216; schedule of Mount Vernon, 302; Chinese, 449;

high grade, feeding, 467.

Holly, Mount Vernon hedges, 535.

Holtzendorff, Baron de, deputy inspector generalship, 547.

Hominy, to England, 502.

Hood, John, land, 284.

Hooe, James H., letter to, 425 n; dancing academy, 425 n.

Hooe, Robert Townsend, West, 186.

Horns Hook, N. Y., post, 529.

Horses, care, 6; Washington's military purchase, 84; horse mill, 144, 176;
for army, 243; schedule of Mount Vernon, 302; feeding, soiling,
466; Mount Vernon family, purchase, 535-537, 576.

Horticulture, peach orchard, 2; hot beds, 5; seeds from East Indies, 186;
subscription fruit trees, 448, 454.

Hospitals, marine, 342.

Houses, Washington's, in federal district, construction, rent rate, 62, 78-
80, 104, 115, 116, 132, 133, 148, 149, 184, 233, 269, 270, 300n, 322,
336, 337, 342-345, 353, 359, 371, 375, 376, 382, 386-388, 391, 392,
430, 435, 443, 449, 583; in Washington's will, 276; articles for
Fairfax, 486.

Houstoun, John, and justiceship, ability, 574.

Houstoun, William, Habersham, 574.

Howard, John Eager, army command, 60; selection of officers, 271.

Howe, Richard, viscount, reconciliation mission, 532.

Howe, Gen. Robert, joint campaign (1781), 554.

Humor, Washington's, 484.

Hunter,, land affairs, 505, 562.

Hunting, at Mount Vernon, forbidden, 194, 195.

Huntingdon, Selina (Shirley) Hastings, countess of, Washington's rela-
tionship, 94.

Huntington Library, material from, 26, 152, 174, 213, 269n, 478, 484,
497, 510, 514, 515, 548n.

Hurling, —, shipmaster, 485.

Hutchins, W. Stilson, acknowledgment to, 155n.

Huts, winter cantonment, 380, 401, 404.

Hydrophobia, cure, 581.

Implements, chaff machine, 85; posthole borer, 85; mechanic rake, 196,
220; care, 462.

Independence, right, 70.

Indians, Delaware chiefs at camp, 548; letters of protection, 581 n.

Ingle, Betty L., acknowledgment to, 485 n.

Ingles & Long, bill of exchange, 509.

Ingraham, Dr., 340.

Inspector general department, provisional army, officers, uniform, 49,
50, 52; Revolutionary, reorganization, duties, officers, 545–548.

Insurance, wartime tobacco shipments, 486.

Insurgente, French warship, Constellation fight, 255.

Intelligence, British before New York, 527, 528; British fleet (1780), 551.

Intercourse with enemy, siege of Boston, 519.

Invoices, shipments, complaints, 490, 491, 493.

Iron, ore on Washington's Kentucky land, 299; military order, 480.
Isham, Mary L., acknowledgment to, 185n.

James Navigation Company, gift stock, disposal, 279, 281; bought stock,

value, 302.

Jameson, Maj. John, intelligence, 551.

Javins, John, as neighbor tenant, 123.

Jay, John, letter to, 526; examination of Forbes, 526; Correspondence,
material from, 526n; judicial opinion on neutrality, 575.

Jefferson, Thomas, Logan, 19; Langhorne affair, 81; Kentucky Resolu-
tions, 88n; letter to, 575; Supreme Court opinion on neutrality, 575.
Jefferson County, W. Va. (Va.), Washington's land, 295 n.
Jefferson Papers, material from, 575n.

Johnson, John, shipmaster, 491.

Johnson, Sir William, Cherokees, 478.

Johnston, —, bears letter, 445.

Johnston, George, land, 568.

Jolly, Charles, letter to, 319; Ritchie's bond, 319.

Julian, Charles, army appointment, 255.

Kalb, Gen. Johann, (baron) de, Conway promotion, 541; quartermaster
generalship, 545.

Kaskaskia Indians, letter of protection, 581 n.

Keene, Richard Raynal, letter to, 72; aid refused, 72, 73.

Keep Trieste Furnace, land, 380.

Keith, James, letter to, 459; Potomac Company, 459.

Kennedy,, replevin, 497.

Kennedy, Dr. Samuel, letter to, 541; Philadelphia campagin sick, 541;

service, 541 n.

Kentucky, Washington's land, addition, 156; value, 299; recording deed,

320-322.

Kentucky Resolutions, 88, 93.

Kercheval, —, as tenant, 338, 339.

King, Ray, clover seed, 458.

King, Rufus, secretary, 108, 166; commercial negotiations, 1327; in-
formation, 242.

King George County, Va., letter from, 477.

Kirkland, Moses, to Congress for examination, 5177.

Kitt, Frederick, fugitive slave, 578; clearing presidential mansion, 578.

Knox, Henry, letters to, 212, 574; Wormeley, 212; Dorchester Heights,
521; information for president, 574; movements, 574′′; education
of son, 572.

Labor. See Apprenticeship; Servants; Slaves.

Ladd, John G., plaster of Paris, 448.

Lafayette, George Washington L. G. Motier de, letter to, 63.
Lafayette, Marie Adrienne, marquise de, movements, 70.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph P. Y. R. G. du Motier, marquis de, Logan, 18;
letter to, 64; release, congratulations, 65; correspondence, 65; pro-
posed visit deprecated, 65, 400, 418, 419; Franco-American crisis
67, 325; Washington's bequest, 286; letters from (1782), 558.
Land, Dismal swamp, Lee affair, 4, 10, 81, 82, 236, 284, 297; troublesome
neighbors, lease to eliminate, 9, 11, 12, 105, 122–124, 178-180, 210,
211; Rootes purchase, 82; Pennsylvania, payment difficulties, 85-87,
146, 232, 251-253, 284, 298, 315, 319, 439, 579, 580; tenants, rent,
104, 338; Maryland, rent, value, 106, 234, 253, 298, 309, 337; federal
district lots, 117, 291, 300, 334, 335, 371, 430; Gloucester, payment,
148-151, 296, 374, 375; possible Fairfax County purchase, 152, 153;
Kentucky, addition, deed, 156, 299, 320–322; Four Mile Run, sur-
vey, 174, 195, 229, 230, 291, 306; Great Kanawha, Welch affair,
value, 176, 215, 284, 297, 298; real and fanciful rent rate, 179, 180;
provisions in Washington's will, 276, 283-285, 288–291; Alexandria
lots, 276, 300; Fredericksburg lots, 283; Manchester and Richmond
lots, 283; Edinsburgh, lots, 284; Difficult Run, cancellation of sale,
boundary, 284, 295, 390, 394, 397, 398, 421-425, 431-435, 440-448,
450; upper Potomac, trespass, rent, 296, 396, 505; Ohio River, dis-
posal, 297, 416, 496; general directions to executors, 293; schedule of
holdings, value, 295-301; plantations for superfluous slaves, 339;
Fort Necessity grant, 437; repurchase of leases, 453; Mississippi
Company, 487; family tract near Fredericksburg, advertisement for
sale, 496; Custis purchase, 503; undated list of tenants, 548n; Wash-
ington's Pennsylvania, after Virginia boundry settlement, 555; Hite
claim, 567, 568; Genesee, 582. See also Fort Necessity; Mount
Vernon.

Langdon, John, Washington's regards, 570.

Langhorne, John, affair, 81.

Laths, for Fairfax, 486.

La Touche-Tréville, Louis René Madeline Lavassor, vicomte de, ship
captured, 558.

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, as engineer, 209.

Laumoy, Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier de, as engineer, 209.

Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut Biron, duc de, escapes capture, 558.
Laval, Anne A. M. S. J. de Montmorency Laval, marquis de, escapes

capture, 558.

Lavinia, 425.

Law, Elizabeth Parke (Custis), Washington's bequest, 292; Mount Ver-
non, 371, 378.

Law, Thomas, wife, 2927; Washington visits, 322; letters to, 334, 371;
federal district lots, 334, 335; Mount Vernon, 371, 378.

Lawns, Mount Vernon, 95, 115, 119.

Lawrence(?), Elisha, loyalist troops, 527.

Lear, Tobias, military secretary, to Philadelphia with Washington, 13;
letters written by, 13n, 14n, 17n, 22n, 45n, 58n, 62n, 74n, 115n,
1187, 122, 124, 139n, 141n, 14бn, 178n, 184n, 223 n, 226n, 228n,
229n, 236n, 242n−244n, 255n, 273n, 275n, 304n, 316n, 334n, 336n,
342n, 356n, 363n, 367 n, 393n, 394n, 398n, 403n, 405n, 406n, 408n,
41on, 413n, 415n, 421n, 452n, 473n, 584n; cavalry appointment for
young Custis, 77; movements, 148, 185, 373, 380; letters to, 151, 569,
57o, 572, 576, 577, 578, 580, 582 (two); illness, 151, 155, 185, 187,
583; Washington's bank stock, 251n; Washington's bequest, 287;
plume, 325; Harpers Ferry cantonment, 401, 417, 420; on Washing-
ton's last illness, 474n; moving to Philadelphia presidential man-
sion, 570-572; young Custis's education, 572; Washington's slaves
in Pennsylvania, 573; clearing presidential mansion, 576-579; stone
for distillery, 580; appointment as secretary, 582; Washington's fed-
eral district houses, 583.

Lebanon, Pa., letter from, 581 n.

Lee, Charles, attorney general, and French mission, 428n; on federal
district loan, 455.

Lee, Francis Lightfoot, letter to, 559; Mercer affair, 559-567.
Lee, Gen. Henry, Dismal Swamp affair, 4, 10, 81, 82, 236, 284, 297n; let-
ters to, 9, 82, 184; selection of officers, 9, 207, 224, 272, 333; election
to Congress, 182, 199, 200, 212; illness, 182; corn sale, 184; Mount
Vernon, 186; Simms, 186; Kentucky land, deed to Washington, 320,
321; land near Harpers Ferry, 380; deputy inspector generalship,
547.

Lee, Ludwell, letter to, 195; Four Mile Run land, 195; Washington's

will, 303.

Lee, Richard Henry, letter to, 541; Conway's promotion, 541; adjutant
general, 542; Board of War, 543.

Lee, Theoderic, army appointment, 178.

Lee, Thomas, land, 152, 153.

Lee, William (Billy), Washington's will on, 277.