...most concern is, that you should go on board the enemy's vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, anil making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them f with a view to prevent a conflagration. ********...

...gone on board the vessels of the enemy and furnished them with refreshments. It would have been a lens painful circumstance to me to have heard, that in...non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my home and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to nave considered yourself as my representative,...

...letter: » SIR—It gives me extreme concern to hear that " you furnished the enemy with refreshments. It " would have been a less painful circumstance to...me, '* to have heard, that, in consequence of your non" compliance with their request, they had laid ray «* plantation in ruins. GEORGE WASHUWTON." BUT,...

...most concern is, that you should go on board the enemy's vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,...

...letter : " Sir — -It gives me extreme concern to hear that you furnished the enemy with refreshments. It Would have been a less painful circumstance to...of your non-compliance with their request, they had laid my plantation in ruins. GEOHGE WASHINGTON." But, among all his splendid acts of patriotism, there...

...and requested that the buildings might be spared. For this Washington severely reprimanded him : " It would have been a less painful circumstance to...heard, that, in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in ruins. Yon ought to...

...the general might be spared. Washington was indignant at this proceeding. " It would," he writes, " have been a less painful circumstance to me to have...heard that, in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in rums. You ought to...

...the general might be spared. Washington was indignant at this proceeding. " It would," he writes, " have been a less painful circumstance to me to have...heard that, in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought to...

...most concern is, that you should go on board the enemy's vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in rums. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflected on the...

...proceeding, as will appear by the following extract of a letter to his overseer. " It would," he writes, " have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that, in consequence of your noucompliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in...