In 1784, GW appointed Thomas Freeman, then residing at Redstone, Pa., as his land agent to superintend his "affairs on the Western Waters in the State of Pennsylvania & Virginia". In September of that year GW gave Freeman instructions for renting his holdings on the Ohio and Great Kanawha rivers, the tract at Washington’s Bottom in Fayette County, Pa., and the holding at Great Meadows in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (GW to Freeman, 23 Sept. 1784). In 1785 and 1786, while GW's Millers Run (or Chartiers Creek) tract was under dispute in Washington County, Freeman's role was to lend assistance to Thomas Smith, GW’s attorney who was seeking to eject the people who had settled on the Millers Run land. Freeman continued as GW's land agent in Pennsylvania until he left for Kentucky in 1787.