File 9846
Envelop
To –
The Honourable Montgomery Stewart, Mrs. No.6 Berners Street, London
(postmark – Lewes – 50)
8 March 1794. Release of G.E. Graham for his Mother’s Estates.
(Mr?) Marsh will find my letter in Norfolk Street, with best compliments to Mrs Steward,
Yours Truly, G.E.Graham.
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Saturday, 15th November 1794
My son was married to Miss Francis Graham at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, present Mrs Graham [Mary Graham nee Shewen] her mother, Sir Henry Dashwood, her sister’s husband, with his lady [Mary Helen Lady Dashwood] and their daughter and son, Miss Graham’s three brothers and myself [one brother being Col George Edward Graham].
William Marsh
1755-1846
Frances Marsh nee Graham
1770-1805
Mary Graham nee Shewen
1737?-1798
Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood
1745-1828
Mary Helen Lady Dashwood
1763-1796
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File 9796
Memorandum
I have this year helped the distressed and given as much in Charity as I could reasonably do from my income. I have endeavoured carefully to avoid any kind of oppression, injustice or incivility, and most earnestly and heartily laid hold on every opportunity to endeavour by acts of kindness, to make those happy who are worthy and have fallen within my circle of action.
I have been constantly on my guard, to bear the Prosperity I am blessed with, so as not to behave arrogantly or to forget from whom it came; or to fall into the luxury and dissipation which is too often the consequence of Wealth and Power.
Have lived regularly and comfortably within my income; enjoyed every necessary of Lift. Have employed my mind and exercised my body constantly, whereby I have been blessed with good Spirits and health accompanied with the (asfulness?) and happiness; and upon reflection from this conduct, have obtained as fully perhaps as possible that inestimable possession – My own approbation.
George Marsh
31 December 1795(?)
Note, my pleasure has been lately greatly increased by my dear son William’s marriage from which, in consequence of the good sense, and good disposition of his wife and the possession of every other necessary, they have greatest prospects of happiness.