To George Washington from Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 19 November 1799
From the Commissioners for the District of Columbia
Washington, 19th Novr 1799.
Sir,
We were this morning favored with your letter of yesterday—Your check has been paid, and the Balance of your Dividend being 93 53/100 Dolls. is enclosed in a post note of the Bank of Columbia1—We are, with Sentiments &c.,
G. Scott
A. White
LB, DNA: RG 42, Records of the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, Letters Sent.
1. In his letter to the commissioners of 18 Nov., GW enclosed a check “on the Bank of Columbia for” the dividend he had received on his shares of that bank’s stock. GW sent the check as payment for the second installment on a Federal City lot he had purchased from the commissioners in 1798. He promised to pay, in bank notes, any balance still owing (commissioners to GW, 13 Nov. 1799, n.2). For more on the lots that GW purchased near the Capitol and on which he built two connected houses, see Alexander White to GW, 8 Sept. 1798, and GW to the commissioners, 28 Sept. 1798, and n.2.