The record-union., 1893-03-09
OF WASHINGTON.
An Old Woman Quaint Letters
Washington Sang.


Mrs. Christina Bordner, living at Lewis
town, ILL.,, was 10 years old when WASH
ington died, and distinctly remembers
the sorrow of the people on that occasion.
Her husband, Peter Bordner, died in
1881, when he was but ten months from
being 100 years old. Thirteen children
were born TO them, of whom ten are liv-
ing, and their descendants. including
twenty-four great grandchildren, now
number 353 persons.
GEORGE wAsHIN GToN BARTERS "a ROGUE
AND A RUNAWAY."'
The New York EUening Post prints
number of letters from General George
Washington, heretofore unpublished.
Among them are the following:
MOUNT VERNON, 2 July. 1776.
To Captain job. Thompson:
SIR:
With this letter comes a negro (Tom),
which L beg the favor OF you to sell IN
any of the Islands you may go to, for
whatever he will fetch, and bring me in
return from him:
One hid of best molasseS
One ditto of best rum
One barrel of lymes, if good and cheap.
One pot of tamarinds. containing about
ten pounds.
about five pounds each.
And the residue, much or little, in
good old spirits.
That this fellow is both rogue and
runaway tho he was by no means re-
markable for the former, and never
practised the latter till of latel shall not
pretend to deny, but that he is exceed
ingly healthy, strong and good at the hoe
the whole neighborhood can testify, and
particularly MIR. johnson and his son,
who have both had him under them as
foreman OF the gang; which gives me
reason to hope he may, with your good
management, sell well, if kept clean and
trlm'd up little when offered for sale.
Shall very cheerfully allow you the
| customary commissions on this affair,
and must beg the favor of you Qest he
should attempt his eScape) to keep him
handcutfed till you get to sea, or in the
bay, after which l doubt not you may
make him very useful to you.
| wish you a pleasant and prosperous
passage, and a sale and speedy return.
OBJECTS TO HAVING HIS CLAIM JUMPED.
Letter to Michael Cresap.l
MOUNT VERNON, Septemr 26th
l773.
SIR.
In my passage down the Ohio in the
! Fall of the year l770, 1 made a choice of a
piece of Land, being the first bottom on
the SO East side of the river above Cap
teening, is also little above place
| Wh6IG luG SlIGCtS Oh hurricane appear
among the Trees, and opposite to a Creek
on the other side near the upper end OF
the bottom, ca'Fd Pike Creek. The next
Spring, when Capt: Crawford went down
the Ohio to survey, l desired him to run
out this Land for me, which he accord
ingly did, IL returned me the Plat of it,
as you may see by the inclosed copy; in
tending as soon as Patent could be OBJ
tanned, to apply for me. The summer
following, hearing that Doctor Brisco had
taken possession of this bottom, (altho'
infornl'd of my claim to it, 1 wrote him
a letter Of which the inclosed is a copy
And within these few days l have heard
| (the truth of which L know not that you,
upon the Doctors quitting of it, have
! also taken possession of it. If this infor-
nation be true, L own l can conceive no
reason why you or any other person
should attempt to disturb me in
my claim to this Land, as
have not, to my knowledge, injur'd or at
tempted to iniure. any other man in his
pretensions to Land in that country; it is
little hard, therefore, upon me that L
cannot be allowed to hold this bottom
! (Which is but a small one) in peace and
| quietness, till legal right can be OBJ
tanned, which I have always been and