The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

PART I.] PRIVATE LETTERS. 375
take to determine it; but hope, if, contrary to my expectation, you should find him inclined to run into any
kind of extravagance, you will be so good, by your
friendly admonition, as to check its progress.
As Mr. Custis may probably want clothing and other
necessaries, you will please to establish a credit in his
behalf with such merchants as you can recommend; and
when the deposit now lodged with you is expended in
this and other payments, be so good as to transmit me
a copy of the disbursements, and I shall furnish you
with other bills whereby to lay in a new fund.
I have nothing further to add at present, except that
at the next vacation, or at any other time, I shall think
myself very happy in seeing you in Virginia, and that I
am, with very great respect and esteem, your most obedient humble servant.
TO WILLIAM CRAWFORD.
Mount Vernon, 25 September, 1773.
DEAR SIR,
I have heard, (the truth of which, if you saw Lord
Dunmore in his way to or from Pittsburg you possibly
are better acquainted with than I am,) that his Lordship
will grant patents for lands lying below the Scioto, to
the officers and soldiers, who claim under the proclamation of October, 1763. If so, I think no time should be
lost in having them surveyed, lest some new revolution
should happen in our political system. I have, therefore, by this conveyance, written to Captain Bullitt,
to desire he will have ten thousand acres surveyed for
me; five thousand of which I am entitled to in my own
right, the other five thousand by purchase from a captain and lieutenant.