Today in Johnson City History, Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Boucher writes to Washington, happenings in Elizabethton and Valle Crusis
Sunday, August 6, 1775: Two hundred and fifty years ago today, Jonathan Boucher wrote a letter to George Washington. The original spellings, punctuations, etc., have been preserved.
“From Jonathan Boucher
"The Lodge, Aug. 6th, 1775.
“Dear Sir,—I thought it far from the least pleasing circumstance attending my removal hither that it placed me in your immediate neighbourhood. For having now been happy in your acquaintance several years, I could not help considering myself, nor indeed help hoping that I was considered by you, as an old friend; and of course I counted on our living together in the pleasing intercourse of giving and receiving the mutual good offices of neighbourhood and friendship.