The case was tried in 1786 before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and resulted in Washington's favor.
In 1796 Washington sold the tract to a certain Matthew Richey for twelve thousand dollars, of which three thousand one hundred eighty dollars was to be paid in cash and the rest in three annual instalments.

Richey died in 1798, and Washington's heirs had difficulties in their attempts to collect the remainder.
Leaving these legal matters to be disposed of by lawyers, Washington turned back without visiting his Kanawha or Ohio lands, and on October fourth reached Mount Vernon, having traveled on horseback about six hundred eighty miles.

One result of his trip was the formation of the Potomac Company, but this is a subject that lies without the scope of this book.
[Illustration: The Seed House, Beyond Lay the Vegetable Garden] [Illustration: One of the Artificial Mounds.

The Tree upon It was Set out by Mrs.Grover Cleveland.] From that time onward he bought occasional tracts of lands in various parts of the country or acquired them in discharge of debts.

By the death of his mother he acquired her land on Accokeek Creek in Stafford County, near where his father had operated an iron furnace.
Washington's landed estate as listed in his will amounted to about sixty thousand two hundred two acres, besides lots in Washington, Alexandria, Winchester, Bath, Manchester, Edinburgh and Richmond.