JANUARY 29th

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To Battaile Muse

Philadelphia, 27 December 1790

Sir, 

A letter which will be shewn to you by my Nephew (if the facts be true as I presume they are) is from a near relation of mine. Feeling for her situation I am desirous of affording relief, and therefore, request if there is any vacant tenement of mine in Berkeley, Frederick, Fauquier, or Loudoun, under your care that you will give her a lease, for it, rent free, for the natural lives of herself and Daughter, Sally Ball Haynie, and, moreover, by pecuniary aids (to be drawn from your collection of my rents) to enable her to put the place in a little repair. If there are more than one lot vacant, She may take her choice of them. I am &c.*

A photograph of George Washington's will detailing his gift to Sallie Haynie.
Washington’s Last Will and Testament Regarding Sally Haynie
Fairfax County Circuit Court, Virginia

* Washington bequeathed, through his last will and testament, three hundred dollars to Sally Haynie.

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