Ms. Kercheval Bennett:
From the Papers of George Washington: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html>
[Thursday December 15 1785]
Thursday 15th. Thermometer at 40 in the Morng. 45 at Noon and [ ] at Night.
Moderate & clear all the fore part of the day with the Wind at So. East, but not fresh. In the Afternoon it began to lower--at Dusk turned very cloudy and in the Night set in to a constant rain.
Mr. Shaw went up to Alexandria, after dinner, to a Ball I presume. And in the Evening Joseph Winzor & Willm. Kirchwall 2 of my tenants from Frederick came in & stayed all Night.
TENANTS FROM FREDERICK: GW had bought two lots totaling about 570 acres at George Mercer's 1774 sale of a 6,500-acre tract in Frederick County. The land, now in Clarke County, was on the Shenandoah River near the present town of Berryville. Late in 1784 Joseph Winzor of Maryland bargained with Edward Snickers, who was acting as GW's agent in the matter, for a 14-year lease on 172 acres of the land. Although GW preferred a shorter lease, he honored Snickers's agreement with Winzor for a lease commencing 1 Jan. 1785 and ending 31 Dec. 1798, at a rent of £17 4s. per year. William Kirchwall's (Kercheval) lease for 172 acres was for 13 years, commencing 1 Jan. 1786 and ending 31 Dec. 1798 at a rental of £17 6s. per year. Both men had their rent increased slightly after the 1789 resurvey, when their farms were discovered to total 1741/2 acres each (CHAPPELEAR [3], 33--36; GW to Battaile Muse, 28 July 1785, DLC:GW; GW's rental accounts, 1788--90 and 1791, ViMtV).
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Dear Listers:
I have some copies of correspondence from my ancestor (William
Kercheval) to Lawrence Lewis. They were written in 1800, 1801, and 1802.
He seems to have been managing Mr. Lewis' property. I believe that this
ancestor was a tenant farmer of George Washington's near Winchester. My
questions are:
1. Who is Lawrence Lewis - a descendant or ???
2. My ancestor's contract was completed in January 1799. what would have
happened then in that George died that year?
3. What is the difference between a tenant farmer and a manager of a
farm.?
Any help along this line would be very helpful.
Diana Kercheval Bennett
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