In addition to serving as a means of making money, the Sunday market was a good place to befriend slaves from Alexandria and from outlying plantations. Toward the end of George Washington's life ...

“One fourth of the money to be paid down - the other three fourths in three annual payments, with interest,” he added. Washington wrote the letter just months before he would arrive in ...

George Washington came up with a way to sway any thoughts of rebellion. Congress was running out of money after years of war. Troops were hungry and unpaid and there was talk of mutiny.