Mount Vernon, April 3, 1791. This letter is also in part on his private
affairs. It contains further complaints of this agent. In the closing
parts of it [there being at this time growing apprehensions of trouble
with the Indians] he makes the remark, that until we could restrain the
turbulence and disorderly conduct of our own borderers, it would be in
vain he feared to expect peace with the Indians; or that they would
govern their own people better than we did ours.

[It was in the following autumn that General St. Clair's
army was defeated by them in the neighborhood of the Miami
Villages.]

Mount Vernon, April 6, 1791. A short letter. It mentions his intention
of continuing his journey southward the next day; his horses being well
recruited, he hopes they will go on better than they have come from
Philadelphia. He incloses Mr. Lear, who remains in Philadelphia, some
letters to be put on file, and requests him to pay a man who had been
working in the garden.

[The journey southward next day was the commencement of his
tour to the Southern States, having made one into the
Northern States before he became President. Having completed
his tour, he passed several days in Georgetown to execute
the powers vested in him for fixing on a place for the
permanent seat of government for the United States under the
new constitution.]

Richmond, April 12, 1791. This is a letter of four closely written
pages, mainly, though not exclusively, about his servants and the