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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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Extract from a letter praising General Washington's character, public service, and agricultural practices at his 10,000-acre estate, detailing crops sown in 1787, livestock, and 1786 hog production.
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FROM THE ESSEX JOURNAL.
MR. HOYT,
BY giving the following extract of a letter (which lately fell into my hands) from a gentleman who resided several years with our illustrious PRESIDENT of the United States, a place in your useful paper, you will oblige one of the many thousand of his admirers, who, although he has not a personal acquaintance, is nevertheless under very particular as well as general obligations to him, and wishes that all the good people of these States may be sensible of his unbounded disinterestedness, formerly in relinquishing the pleasures and enjoyments of affluence and domestic quiet, at the risque of life, to rescue his country from slavery and oppression; and now, at the repeated call of his fellow citizens, in devoting himself to their service in devising measures to preserve and secure that liberty, which, 'by the divine munificence,' he had by his wisdom and valour procured: And all this without any other compensation than the satisfaction of doing good!
In addition to all this, from unequivocal authority I am able to assert, that his whole influence is exerted to patronize and befriend the liberal arts and science.
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"General WASHINGTON possesses 10,000 acres of land in one body, where he lives—constantly employs 250 hands—keeps 24 ploughs going all the year, when the weather will permit—sowed in 1787, 600 bushels of oats, 700 acres of wheat, and prepared as much for corn, barley, potatoes, beans, peas, &c.—has near 500 acres in grass—and sowed 150 with turnips—Stock, 140 horses, 112 cows, 235 working oxen, heifers and steers, and 500 sheep.
The lands about his seat are all laid down in grass—the farms are scattered round at the distance of 2, 3, 4, or 5 miles which the General visits every day, unless the weather is absolutely stormy.—He is constantly making various and extensive experiments for the improvement of agriculture: He is stimulated with that laudable ambition of doing good to his country and benefit mankind. In 1786 he killed 150 hogs, weighing 18,560 lb. for his family use (exclusive of provisions for his negroes) which was made into bacon."
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1786 1787
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General WASHINGTON possesses 10,000 acres of land in one body, where he lives—constantly employs 250 hands—keeps 24 ploughs going all the year, when the weather will permit—sowed in 1787, 600 bushels of oats, 700 acres of wheat, and prepared as much for corn, barley, potatoes, beans, peas, &c.—has near 500 acres in grass—and sowed 150 with turnips—Stock, 140 horses, 112 cows, 235 working oxen, heifers and steers, and 500 sheep. The lands about his seat are all laid down in grass—the farms are scattered round at the distance of 2, 3, 4, or 5 miles which the General visits every day, unless the weather is absolutely stormy.—He is constantly making various and extensive experiments for the improvement of agriculture. In 1786 he killed 150 hogs, weighing 18,560 lb. for his family use (exclusive of provisions for his negroes) which was made into bacon.