Mount Vernon, April 26, 1799.
Dear Sir:
Your occupation on Wednesday last, put it out of my power to speak to you with out giving interruption to more important business than I am now about to communicate.
Having good information that some land which I hold on four mile run was much depredated on, I went up some short time ago to run round the Lines, and found the fact to be as reported; but not being able to ascertain all the Corners, and those holding the adjacent Lands not being present, I forbore to re-mark any of the lines;1 but being desirous of doing this, and meeting with all the parties at the Election, Monday next is fixed upon for this purpose; who have engaged to meet me at the beginning Corner of Adams’s Patent (under which I hold) by nine o’clock on that morning; where, and when, being informed that you have Land adjoining mine, I should be glad to meet you. As you may not know where this Corner is, I shall pass a little house at the junction of the Leesburgh Road (a widows) half an hour before nine on my way.
With great esteem etc.
1 A facsimile of Washington’s survey of this Four Mile Run tract is published in The George Washington Atlas, pl. 21 (Washington: 1932), edited by Lawrence Martin.