- George Mason letter to George Washington.
Gunston Hall, VA - 14 October 1775
During the first part of the Convention, parties ran so high, that we had frequently no other way of preventing improper measures, but by procrastination, urging the previous question, and giving men time to reflect.
- George Mason letter to George Washington.
Gunston Hall, VA - 2 April 1776
We have just received the welcome news of your having, with so much address and success, dislodged the Ministerial troops, and taken possession of the town of Boston.
- George Mason letter to George Washington.
Richmond, VA - 6 November 1787
A resolution this day passed for an absolute prohibition of all imported spirits, with some others, in my opinion, almost equally impolitic, and calculated to subject the eastern part of the State to the arbitrary impositions of the western.
