Published in 1780, this broadside was part of an effort by women to raise money to provide badly-needed supplies to the Continental Army. The reverse of this document lists detailed instructions for collecting and processing funds. Esther De Berdt…

This is a list of MW's dower slaves, with their names and locations, in GW's hand. It is written on blank sheets in his 1760 copy of the Virginia Almanac (image courtesy of the Library of…

Follow-up to September 4, 1796 letter. Whipple describes to Wolcott his effort to capture Ona Judge.…

Letter in which Joseph Whipple accepts George Washington's assignment to return Ona Judge to slavery.…

Letter in which Whipple explains his failure to convince Judge to return to the Washingtons.…

After resigning his commission as General of the Continental Army, George Washington sent this detailed report of his personal expenses during the war to the Congress. He included his wife’s expenses incurred traveling to and from the…

Mount Vernon, September 20, 1765.

Sir: If you will permit me after six years silence, the time I have been married to your Niece, to pay my respects to you in this Epistolary way I shall think myself happy in beginning a corrispondance which…

Williamsburg, May 1, 1759.

Gentln. The Inclos'd is the Ministers Certificate of my Marriage with Mrs. Martha Custis, properly as I am told, Authenticated, You will therefore for the future please to address all your Letters which relate to the…