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Letter from George Washington to George Augustine Washington (1787)

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“From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 9 September 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/cp6u.


Dear George,

This acknowledgment of your letter of the 2d of this Month is probably the last letter that I shall write you from this place, as the probability is that the Convention will have compleated the business which brought the delegated together in the course of this Week. God grant I may not be disappointed in this expectation, as I am quite homesick…

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