...as you would for yourself, and more than this I cannot expect." "Let the Hospitality of the House, with respect to the poor, be kept up; Let no one go hungry away. If any of these kind of People should be in want of Corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage...

...Lund Washington, who had charge of his affairs at Mount Vernon: "Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to the poor, be kept up. Let no one go...of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no objection to your giving...

...we find Washington writes meanwhile in the most kindly spirit : ' Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away. * * * * You are to consider that neither myself nor wife is now in the way to do these good offices.'...

...Cambridge, November 26, 1775, to his representative at Mt. Vernon: Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to the poor, be kept up. Let no one go...hungry away. If any of this kind of people should be there in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and...

...Late in 1775, he wrote his cousin, Lund Washington: "Let the hospitality of the house [Mount Vernon], with respect to the poor, be kept up. Let no one go hungry away."4 In May 1769 Washington emerged with George Mason, Patrick Henry, and Richard Henry Lee as an...

...: ing from Cambridge in i775. Washington told Lund Washington to "Let the Hospitahty of the House. with respect to the poor. be kept up; Let no one go hungry away. lf any of these kind of People should be in want of Corn. supply their necessities." though he added...

...of his estate at Mt. Vernon that stressed, in effect, open house: Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to the poor, be kept up. Let no one go away hungry. If any of this kind of people shall be in want . . . supply their necessities . . . ;...

...up," he wrote during the war to Lund Washington, the Mount Vernon manager. "Let no one go away hungry. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness, and I have no objection to your giving...

...command the army, he left instructions about running the plantation: "Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away."32 We Couldn't Have Done It Without the French For almost the first two-and-one-half years of...

...and the footing on which he left his household at Mount Vernon. " Let the hospitalities of the house, with respect to the poor, be kept up. Let no one go...of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness ; and I have no objection to your giving...