Title: Invoice from Robert Cary & Company, 28 September 1768
From: Robert Cary & Company
To: Washington, George

London 28 Septr 1768.

Invoice of Cost & Charges of Goods Shipd on board the Lord Cambden John Johnstoun Comr for Virginia upon the Acct & risque of Colo. Geo: Washington & to him consignd. Vizt

Alexr Duning Biscuit

White Bread o C. 1 Q. 22 lb. @ 28/
.12. 6

Cask, Package, & Waterage
. 3. 6

Saml Ballamy Iron

In a Cask
. 2. 6

3 M 30d. Nails at 15/
2. 5. 0

6 Inch headg Chisls 6/
. 3.

6 ¾ Inch Do 6/
. 3.

6 ½ Inch Do 5/
. 2. 6

4 best Curry Combs & B[rushes]
. 9.

4 best sec[re]t Portmu Padlks
. 6.

In a Cask
. 2. 6

21 M 20 flat p⟨ns⟩ 6/5
6.14. 9

Josh Middleditch Grocy

Mace ¼ lb. 20/
. 5.

Nutmegs ¼ 9/4
. 2. 4

Cinnamon 1/4 17/
. 4. 3

Cloves ¼ 12/
. 3.

White Ginger 2 10d.
. 1. 8

Salt Petre 25 10½
1. 1.10

Roach Allum 10 6d.
. 5.

Jordan Almds 15 15
.18. 9

1 Jar new Raisons 1.20 Nett 1.5 @ 60/
.17. 8

1 Do Do Currts 1.7 Nett 60/
.18. 9

2 Jarr’s 5/ Cask 3/6
. 8. 6

Jno. Bradshaw Sein

One Saine 65 fathom long 9 feet deep in the middle, 7 feet at ends, ¾ Inch Mesh in the middle 3 strand twine
8.18. 0

2 Coils white rope weight 1 C. o Q. 14 lb. @ 45/
2.10. 7 1/2

2 Cable laid deepsea lines 4/
. 8.

A Cask
. 5.

Chas Brown Corks

10 Groce Velvet Corks 2/
1. 0. 0

Chas Wilkens Oil &ca

6 half pound bottles Mustard @ 1/
. 6.

2 Quarts fine Oil
. 5.

2 Bottles for Ditto
.  . 6

4 Quarts Capers
.12.

4 Bottles for Do
. 1.

4 Quarts of french Olives
.10.

⟨4⟩ Bottles for Do
. 1.

1 Box for the above
. 1. 6

Frans Nalder Cheese

To 1 Cheshe Cheese 59½ lb. @ 5½d.
1. 7. 3

To 3 dble Glostr Do 56 6
1. 8. 0

A Case to Do
. 1. 8

Benja. Kenton Porter

To 12 dozn Porter, bottled, packd & wir’d at 6/6
3.18. 0

To 1 Cask 5/6 Cartage &ca 3/
. 8. 6

Walr Humphreys Blan[ke]ts

2 Ps. best D[utch] Blankets 87/6
8.15. 0

4 dozn best plad hose No. 5 14/
2.16.

Pack cloth 1 Truss
. 5.

Jno. Walker Sugar

10 Single Loaves 1. 0. 8 72/
3.17. 1

10 dble Ditto 2. 24 92/
3. 5. 8

A Cask
. 2. 8

Jas Bryant Trunk

To a large str[on]g travelg lea: Chaize Trunk with oil cloth cover,
3. 3. 0

To Mattg & Cordg Ditto
. 1. 6

Jno. Didsbury Shoes

1 pr Boots s’d tops & lea[the]rs
1. 8. 0

4 pr dress shoes
1.14. 0

6 pr W: bla: Calla Pumps
1.13.

Eliza. Nichols B[lacking] Balls

2 Setts best Shoe Brushs
. 3. 4

1 dozn la: blackg Balls
. 9.

J. Brotherton Books

Beverley’s Histy of Virga
. 5.

¼ lb. Sealing Wax
. 1.10 1/2

Sterry & Co. Leathr

2 Grain Skins
.18.

2 Wax ditto
.19.

1 dozn Orap Soles
. 8.

1 dozn Butt Ditto
.15.

Richards & Co. Hose

1 Mans fine Hatt
1. 0. 0

4 pr Men’s large spun silk hose @ 7/
1. 8.

Box for the Hat
.  . 8

Robt Harrell W. Cds

To 4 pr Wool Cards 16d.
. 5. 4

Price & Nalder Gloves

0.7. Woms. best purple & Crim. Grain Kid Glo[ve]s & Mitts flod 24/
.14.

0.7. Woms. best whe grain Kid Glo: & Mitts 21/
.12. 3

Lardner & B[aratt]y Hab[erdasher]y

6 M best s[hor]t wt. pins 8d.
. 4. 0

4 M do Corkg Do 12d.
. 4.

500 do Londn Needles 8d.
. 3. 4

1 Gro: fine wire shirt Butns
. 3.

Mary Scott & Son Cut[ler]y

3 Gro: platd high Butns on Iv[or]y 5/
.15.

1½ gro: Do Coat 10/
.15.

3 Setts [s]tro[n]g Pinchbeck buck. 2/6
. 7. 6

3 gro. bla: horn breast 10d.
. 2. 6

2 gro. Ditto Coat 18d.
. 3.

1 pr cuttg out Scissars
. 1. 2

1 pr pocket Ditto
. 1. 6

1 pr finer Ditto
. 2.

1 Shott Bag
. 2.

Geo. Ribright Telas[cop]e

To a Mahagony 5 foot 6 Glass Telascope
2.12. 6

A Chest, Cord, & Cording
.19.

Chas Lawrence Taylr

To makg yr mixture in grain Suit, & spare pr of Breech’s
1. 3. 0

To 3½ dozn of rich gold wire Coat Buttons @ 9/
1.11. 6

To 4½ dozn breast Do 4/6
1. 0. 3

To sowg Silk, Silk twist, Buck[ra]m Stays &ca
.10.

To fine pillow fustion for 2 pr Breechs & 2 pair of Silk Garters
.13.

To Dimoty to the Waistcoat Pockets to the Coat & Wastecoat & Sleeves
. 7.

Leaver Legg Cloth

5½ yds best superfine Cloth in Grain high
5.10. 0

6 yds fine Shalloon 2/
.12.

Wm Hallier Tinn

12 la: Tinn Sheets
. 8.

1 plate Basket
. 4. 6

Dennis & Co. Sadlery

2 Very best broad Woolen Cirsingles, lind with Nt[s] leather with Steel Buckles & broad straps
. 5.

2 pieces of Spunge
. 2.

Ann Harris

Paid for 22 yds laylock Tobine @ 9/3 pr yd
10. 3. 6

Paid for 3 yds Persian 2/2
. 6. 6

Pd for 4 dozn Trimgs 3/6
.14.

Makg the Negligee & Coat
1. 1. 0

Body, Sleeve lin[in]g & ferrt
. 3. 6

Making a Stomacher
. 2.

James Gordon Seeds

10 lb. true turnep Cabbege
2.10.

20 lb. Burnett
. 6. 8

20 lb. Lucerne
.16. 8

1 Peck earliest Peas
. 3.

1 Galln whe Nonparil
. 2.

1 Galln dwarf Marrow do
. 1. 4

1 Oz. Sugr loaf Cabbage
. 1.

1 Oz. late Do
. 1.

1 Oz. Savoy
.  . 6

3 Baggs
. 2. 3

Chest, Cord, & Cording
.19.

Jno. Stabler Linn

3 ps. headen Rolls off 4 207 203 101½ 6d.
2.10. 9

1 ps. Irish ⅞ wide high bleachd No. 2 23 yd 15d.
1. 8. 9

1 ps. Do yd do No. 44 25 yds: 2/
2.10.

1 ps. fine Do do No. 50 25 [yds.] 3/9
4.13. 9

1 ps. superfine Do 15 25 [yds.] 5/2
6. 9. 2

1 ps. suprfine Cambk 944 ⟨&⟩ Duty 80/
4.

Box
4.

Mauduit & Co. Woolen

1 ps. 6/4 light col[ore]d Duffield 26 yards @ 3/
3.18.

1 ps. 6/4 dark col[ore]d Do 25 yds @ 3/
3.15.

1 ps. Scarlt Calaman[c]a 40 yds
2. 4.

Robt Cartony Tea

3 lb. finest Hyson Tea 18/
2.14.

6 lb. fine Green Do 14/
4. 4.

Canister & Box
. 6.

S. Thorpe Mill[iner]y

A Whe Stomacher & Sleeve knots of Queen’s Ribbon
.15.

A Do of Pink Shot ribbon
.15.

A Green Sattin Coat
3. 0. 0

A Straw Bonnet lind rd & trimd wt. gn ribbon
.10. 6

2 Band Boxes
. 1.

A Deal Box
. 1. 6

Bevan & Son Apothy

Venice Treacle 4/6 lb.
. 4. 6

Diascordium 2/6 lb.
. 2. 6

Spt Turpentine 1/6 lbs. 3 oz. 6
. 5.

Strong Cinnam. Water 2/8 ⟨lbs.⟩ 2
. 5. 4

Green Phials 9d. 6 Dn
. 4. 6

Phial Corks 4d. 5 Groce
. 1. 8

Bottles & Potts
. 1. 3

Box & Cord
. 2. 6

      Christr Reeves Chariot &ca

To a new handsome Chariot, made of best Materials, handsomely carvd, carvd anticks to middle of Pillars, & carvd scrowl Corners to top of Pillars & roof, Batten sides, Sweeps of Sides & mouldings rd the roof carvd; with dble ribings, hind batten’s & fore battens archd and carvd; panneld back & Sides Japand & Polishd, & roof Japand; lined wt. green Morocco Leather trimmd with Cuffey Lace, an oval behind, a large Trunk under the Seat, the bottom coverd with red leather, & a handsome carpit to bottom: Plate Glass diamd cut, handsomely Paintd the Body & Carridge, & Whls paintd a glazd green; all the framd Work of Body gilt, handsome scrowl, shields Ornamend wt. flowers all over the Panls, body & Car[riag]e Oil varnishd; the car[riag]e wt. Iron Axletree screwd at end handsomely carvd scrowl Stand[ar]ds twisted behind & before, & Stays of foot board barrs & beads carvd with Scrowls & Paneled; Patent woorm Springs wt. brass Sockets; a boot coverd wt. lea[the]r Japand & garnishd, brass Nails, a han[dsome]e Seat cloth bd wt. brd la[ce] & 2 rows of hand[som]e fringe wt. gimp head, all compt
103. 0. 0

To 4 Venetion Patt. Blinds with Mahy frames
5.10.

To 4 handsome harness, bridles, brass ornamt pieces on the Straps, brass arch’d Molden Housg & Winkers, polisht Bitts all compleat
14.10.

To 2 ridg Sadles, stirps & Girths
2.16.

To 2 Setts of Splinters & 2 main barrs wt. Ironwork
1.16.

To 2 brass waterg & Plates with high rings
. 5.

To 4 high brass rings, & 2 Waterg Locks & Plates
. 8.

To a new covr made of Green Bays
1.15.

To a strong deal case & casing ⟨of⟩ the Body
2.10.

To Packing up the carridge & wheels
.10.

To Carriage to Waterside
   . 4.

288.18.

Entry out Searchrs fees & shipg charges
3.17. 6

Freight Primage & Bills of Loadg
  8.10. 6

 12. 8.

Premo of £320 Insd at 2½ prCt & Policy
6.13. 6

Comn @ 2½ prCt
    7.14.

£315.13. 6

Errors Excepted pr Robt Cary & Co.


Title: To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 11 October 1768
From: Capel & Osgood Hanbury
To: Washington, George

Esteem’d Friend
London Octor 11th 1768

Inclos’d we send thy Account Current to the 1st of August last the recet of which please to acknowledge & that it proves right, or if otherwise to point out the Error, and it shall be rectified.
We have the pleasure to advise the receipt of 9 Hhds Tobacco per Capt. Esten belonging to Master Custis, which we are using our best endeavors to make the most of, and shall forward the Sales as soon as it is in our power.
It would give us great pleasure to partake of thy own Consignments, in the disposal of which we should be particularly ⟨attentive⟩ to thy Interest—Not having any of thy favors by us unanswer’d, we have only to advise that since the last Ships arrived, Tobacco has declin’d in price, The buyers conceiving a very strong Opinion that the Crops of Tobacco made in Virginia & Maryland this year will turn out very large, how far they may be right in their Sentiments time only can discover—the price at this time is from 3¼ to 3¾ upon Export, & from 10d. to 11d. upon Home Consumption but little fetches the latter of these prices. We are wit⟨h⟩ great Esteem Thy assured Friends

C. & O. Hanbury


Title: From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 20 October 1768
From: Washington, George
To: Boucher, Jonathan

Octr 20th, 1768.

This Letter will be delivered to you by Jacky Custis, who has been detained from School longer than was intended, owing first to his own ill health, and then to his Mamma’s; who did not care to part with him till she had got the better of an Indisposition which confined her some days. He now promises to stick close to his Book, and endeavour by diligent study to recover his lost time—he will have nothing (that we know of) to interupt him till the intervention of the Christmas Hollidays, when you will please to give him leave to return home. Revd Sir Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go Washington.


Title: To George Washington from James Gildart, 31 October 1768
From: Gildart, James
To: Washington, George

Sir
Leverpool [England] Octor 31st 1768

I received your kind favor of the 25th June ⟨mutilated⟩ extreamly sorry to hear the 25 Sacks of Salt Sent you ⅌ the Oak McDaniel came in such bad order and so unseason[a]bly that Ship was intendd for Geo. Town to take in a Cargoe of Grain my Agt had bought of one Mr Ballandine who disapointed him that on the Ship Arrivall at St Marys after a passage of 17 weekes, he the Agent ordered her to Baltimore, & the Stupid Ignorant Master took the Salt up with him instead of forwarding that it

was tumbled about for 5 months ere it Came to your hands & I put to the Lord knowns what Charge thereon As to the Sacking it was most Certain as you say very bad but give me leave to Assure you quite New from the Makers when it went from hence, I have more pleasure in getting Sacking than In All the Goods I buy & I never ⟨bought illegible⟩ In my ⟨Life wth a mutilated⟩ ready money for it. I have now been ⟨4⟩ months ⟨in Cmutilateding⟩ sufficient for this Ship. & after All its errant Track ⟨liker⟩ Crocus than Sacking; I blame my Self for not markg the Sacks According to your order & for wc. I begg your Pardon, herewith you have the Accot Sales of young Mr Custises four hhd Tobo recd ⅌ the JnoSon Ntt Proceeds £40.12.2 with my Acct Currt as you desire wch hope will be found right & that you will be pleased to Note it Accordg. Tobo are now in demand Selling from 2¾ to 3¼ that I hope the small ⟨Stocke⟩ we have on hand will very soon be run off & the early New Tobo come to a good Markett this has Induced me Sending the Totness for Rappk directly to take in what early Tobos my Friends incline to ship & for dispatch fill up wth wheat wch is Now from 6/ to 6/4 70 ⟨Lb.⟩ our Parliamt which meet In a few days I hope will prolong the time for its Importatn duty free from America or I am Sure our Poor will be half Starved. I have seen a sample of your last Crop which was most Curious Grain a fine Colour & will feed. hope that fine Crop will enrich your farmers bravely are they are Certain of a demand from Italy &c. our Rope makers give no encouragt for your hemp Complaining of its being so Ill dressed & such a Vast Loss in the Manufac⟨ture⟩.
I Shall ⟨mutilated⟩ Sen⟨mutilated⟩ small Ship for york River ⟨tobo⟩ & hope for a Continuance Friendship & assistance ⟨towd⟩ her loading & am with much respt Sir Yr Most Ob. Set

Jame. Gildart


Title: Cash Accounts, November 1768
From: Washington, George
To:

[November 1768]

Cash

Novr 5—
To Ditto [cash] of Mr [Hector] Ross
£ 56. 0.0

Do—
To Ditto of Mr Jos[ep]h Valentine
107.18.3

To Cash recd for the following Bills sold Mr Jas Gibson viz.

GW on Hanbury sterlg
£100. 0.0

Jas Kirk on Crosbie &ca
100.

Bland on Bland
   94.14.8

294.14.8

25 prCt Excha. on Ditto
73.13.8
368. 8.4

6—
To Cash of Mr Hectr Ross
10.12.0

21—
To Ditto of Mrs Ann Washington by Mr Jno. Washington Balle Acct
11. 9.3

28—
To Cash of Miss Wade
3. 2.0

30—
To Ditto of Mrs Sheridine
0.13.3

Contra

Novr 1—
By mendg my Chair Wheels 3/. a Pencil 2/
0. 5.0

By Mr [Edmund] Pendleton drawing a Deed
1. 0.0

3—
By Mr Jno. Washington to pay for 4 pr Shoes
0.18.0

By Dinner & Club 5/. 1 oz. Tarter 1/3
0. 6.3

4—
By Cards
1. 5.0

By Barber 13/9. By Charity 1/3
0.15.0

5—
By 100 Leases at the Printg Office 6d.
2.10.0

5—
By Cash paid Mr Jas Gibson on Acct of Majr Riddicks order, in favr of Marmaduke Norfleet for Land bot of him
300. 0.0

By Cash paid Do on Acct Colo. Lewis & self
12.14.7

By Do paid Do on my own Acct
1.13.0

By Mr Thos Lawson for 3571 feet of Inch Pine Plank
11.11.0

By Cards 20/
1. 0.0

6—
By Mrs Campbells Acct for board &ca
3.18.9

By Dinnr & Club 5/—Servants 6/3
0.11.3

7—
By Exps. at Kg Wm Ct Ho. 7/9. Do at Parkers 7/6
0.15.3

16—
By Oysters 6/. Mrs Washington 20/
1. 6.0

1⟨7⟩—
By Mrs Washington 40/. Exps. at Race 5/6
2. 5.6

28—
By Mr [John] Barry Inspection of a Hhd of Tobo
0. 5.0

Do—
By Mr Alexr Henderson for Truro Parish
8. 0.0


Title: From George Washington to Robert Stewart, 1 November 1768 [letter not found]
From: Washington, George
To: Stewart, Robert

Letter not found: to Robert Stewart, 1 Nov. 1768. On 25 Jan. 1769 Stewart wrote to GW: “I had the immense pleasure to receive both your Affectionate and most acceptable Favors of the 5th August via Barbados and of the 1st Novemr.”


Title: From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 4 November 1768
From: Washington, George
To: Capel & Osgood Hanbury

Gentn
Williamsburg November 4th 1768

Of this date I have drawn upon you in favour of Mr James Gibson for One hundred pounds Sterling which please to pay, & place to Account of Mr John Parke Custis.
Since my coming to this place I have receivd a Letter from you by Captn Young (Inclosing another for Mr Custis, with an Acct of the Sales of some of his Tobacco) which I shall take an oppertunity of answering sometime hence. In the meanwhile I remain Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: To George Washington from Joseph Valentine, 23 November 1768
From: Valentine, Joseph
To: Washington, George

Sir
Novr 23d 1768

Jack now sets off from Queens ⟨mutilated⟩th Taylor and ⟨h⟩is family to soffolk ⟨he also mutilated⟩ the negro ⟨mutilated Sam⟩ & 85 lb. of wool from your Qur in K. Wm and 3 Casks of Cyder from Rockahock which is all the appels wod make[.] I am very shore th⟨ei⟩r was not half the appels ass I Saw their alittle while before they w⟨e⟩re got and people has ben ⟨seen⟩ toating them

off in the night how to prevent those things I Can’t tel ass ⟨thes⟩ Seen by negros. I am Very short of goods for Mr Custises people this year though I Shall get them all Cloahed with what I Can get th⟨em⟩ I shall Cloath 140 people of Mr Custises this year and you Can Judg Sir what Quantity of Cotten and linning it will take to Cloath so many people. I Remain Sir your most humble Sert

Joseph Valentine


Title: Cash Accounts, December 1768
From: Washington, George
To:

[December 1768]

Cash

Decr 11—
To Ditto [cash] of Mr Robt Alexander
£19. 0.0

To Sundry Sum’s receivd of Mr Jos. Valentine at the last Apl Genl Court (1768) & omitted entring till now viz.
60. 0.0

Contra

Decr  1—
By Jno. Orr keeping my Poll at the Election
1. 0.0

2—
By Richd Arrells Acct of Exps. on that occn
15. 5.9

By Cakes to Sundries
7.11.3

4—
By Mr Magowan Balle of Acct
1.10.0

By Servant 1/3—By Bishop given him 40/
2. 1.3

By renewing my Entry for L[an]d on Doeg run
0. 2.6

By Barber 2/6
0. 2.6

By Mr Muirs Acct £1.2.7 [and] Mr Ths Price’s Do 1.2.6 pr L[un]d W—n
2. 5.0

19—
By Cash paid for 6 lb. Shott
0. 2.6

By Do gave Betcy Dandridge
1. 0.0

22—
By Fish &ca of the New Englandman
1. 4.0

25—
By my overseer Morris gave him
1.10.0

By Mike Ditto
0.10.0

31—
By Cards

By Mrs Washington
1. 6.3

By Servants at Colo. Fairfax’s
1. 6.6


Title: Fairfax County Poll Sheet, 1 December 1768
From: Washington, George
To:

[1 December 1768]

Colo. George Washington
Colo. John West
Captn John Posey

Lord Fairfax
Lord Fairfax
Solomon Nicholas

George Fairfax Esqre
George Fairfax Esqre
Thomas Hornbuckle

Solomon Nicholas
David Thomas
Jno. Sarter

Thomas Hornbuckle
Eli Stone
William Coarts

John Sarter
Guy Broadwater
James Appleton

David Thomas
Thoms Douglas
John Gray

William Coarts
Daniel Mills
Drakeford Gray

Eli Stone
Zebedee Compton
John Riley

Guy Broadwater
Jno. West Junr
Zebedee Compton

Thomas Douglas
Richard Rakestray
Richard Rakestray

Daniel Mills
David Young
Michael Valandingham

James Appleton
Richard Lake
James Grimsley

John Gray
William Gunnell
David Young

Drakeford Gray
Sanford Ramey
Richard Lake

John Riley
Joseph Moxley
John Reid

John West Junr
Jno. Carlyle
William Rogers

Michael Valandingham
Daniel Talbot
Isaac Davis

James Grimsley
Michael Regan
Sanford Ramey

John Reid
James Gray
Joseph Moxley

William Rogers
Gerard Trammell
William Pool

Isaac Davis
Henry Gunnell
Robert Mosely

William Gunnell
Richard Sanford
Thomas Lewis

John Carlyle
Francis Summers Senr
Andrew Robertson

Daniel Talbot
John Dalton
William Johnston

Michael Regan
Harry Piper
Charles Cornish

Jams Gray
Thomas Doudle
William Johnson Senr

William Pool
Thomas Shaw
William Burk

Robert Mosely
Jno. Summers Senr
Samuel Smith

Gerrard Trammell
Jno. Summers
William Spencer

Henry Gunnell
Joseph Bennett
Aaron Thomas

Richard Sanford
Thomas Thompson
Benjn King

Francis Summers Senr
William Summers
Andrew Allan

John Dalton
Edward Williams
William Hardin

Harry Piper
Benjamin Talbot
William Barker

Thomas Doudle
Samuel Talbot
Moses Barker

Thomas Lewis
William Burk
William Simms

Andrew Robertson
Daniel Jenkins
Charles Craig

Thomas Shaw
Robert Davis
William Ferguson

Jno. Summers Senr
Robert Linsay
Augustus Darrell

Jno. Summers
Gilbert Simpson Senr
Thomas Harden

Joseph Bennett
Drummond Wheeler
William Keen

Samuel Thompson
Edward Dulin
Gervis Hammond

Charles Cornwish
John Askin
William Hawkins

William Summers
John Taylor
William Williams

Edward Williams
Thomas Grafford
George Mason Junr

Benjamin Talbot
Going Lamphire
Thomas Brounly

Samuel Talbot
Thomas Lewis Loudon
James Moor

William Johnston Senr
William Harden
Jacob Hall

Samuel Smith
John Barry
John Aliston

Daniel Jenkins
William Simms
Nicholas Garrett

Robert Davis
Flemming Paterson
Thomas Lucas

William Spencer
Thomas Lewis son of ⟨S.⟩
Thomas Windsor

Aaron Thomas
James Wren
William Kitchen

Benjamin King
Edward Davis
Thomas Bailey

Andrew Allan
Francis Summers
Daniel Jennings

Robert Lindsay
Daniel Summers
Lewis Saunders

Gilbert Simpson Senr
Presley Cox
Lutener Middleton

Drummond Wheeler
Thomas Triplett
Thomas Beach

Edward Dulin
Harrison Manley
John Cotton

John Taylor
William Hawkins
Ralph Cotton

Thomas Grafford
Thomas Lester
George Winn

Going Lamphire
Martin Cockburn
Thoms Hytch

Thomas Lewis Loudn
Thoms Kirkpatrick
Benjamin Halley

John Barry
Robert Sanford
James Halley Junr

William Barker
Moses Ball
Thomas Halbert

Moses Barker
Peregrin Magnus
Sampson Darrell

Fleming Paterson
Franklin Perry
Michael Gretter

Thoms Lewis Son of ⟨S.⟩
Henry Taylor
William Horseman

Charles Craig
Joseph Powell
William Stone

James Wren
John Dulin
Thoms Coffer

Edward Davis
William Tunnell
Robert Speake

Francis Summers
William Munday
Nathl Popejoy

Daniel Summers
Tounshend Dade
Philip Grymes

William Ferguson
Simon Pearson
William Halley

Presley Cox
Thomas Brounly
Charles Alexander

Thomas Triplett
Jno. Williams
Moses Simpson

Harrison Manley
Michael Hall
Jacob Hubbard

Augustus Darrell
Thomas Alexon
William Cash

Thomas Harden
Richard Hollansberry
John Seale

William Keen
Nicholas Garrett
Edward Blackbu⟨rn⟩

Gervis Hammond
Edward Bates
Tyler Waugh

Thomas Lester
Thomas Windsor
Peter Mauzey

Thoms Kirkpatrick
William Kitchen
William Carlane

Martin Cockburn
William Ramsey
Thomas Ford

Robert Sanford
Thomas Fleming
John Martin

Benjn Sebastian
Bryan Fairfax Esqre
John Monroe

Moses Ball
Henry Rozier Esqre
George Martin

Peregrin Magnus
Robert Alexander
in all 87

William Williams
Sampson Turley

Franklin Perry
William Sewell

Henry Taylor
Thomas Bailey

Joseph Powell
Chas Broadwater

John Dowlin
Daniel McCarty

William Tunnell
Thoms Wren

William Munday
John Hurst

Tounshend Dade
John McClochlin

Simon Pearson
James Robertson

George Mason Junr
William Wren

John Williams
Philip Alexander

James Moor
George Mason

Jacob Hall
John Muir

Michl Hall
Saml Jenkins

Thoms Alexon
Robert Adam

Richd Hollinsberry
Mathew Campbell

John Allison
James Adam

Thomas Lucas
William Triplett

Edward Bates
John Hunter

William Ramsay
Thomas Monroe

Thoms Fleming
Michl Gretter

Bryan Fairfax Esqre
William Horseman

Henry Rozier Esqre
John Anderson

Robert Alexander
Edward Payne

Sampson Turley
Jams Duneale

William Sewell
James Moor

Chars Broadwater
Marcellus Littlejohn

Daniel Jennings
Lewis Ellzey

Daniel McCarty
John Ramsay

Thoms Wren
Nathaniel Popejoy

John Hurst
James Lawrie

John McClochlin
William Ballinger

Lewis Saunders
Richard Arrell

James Robertson
John Williams

William Wren
Edward Washington

Lutener Middleton
Paul Turley

Thomas Beach
Bryan Alison

John Cotton
William Scott

Ralph Cotton
John O’Daniel

George Win[n]
Charles Thrift

Thomas Hytch
Absolom Thrift

Philip Alexander
Peter Waggoner

Geo: Mason
Jacob Hubbard

John Muir
Thoms Moss

Saml Jenkins
James Martin

Benjn Halley
Gilbert Simpson Junr

Jams Halley Junr
Peter Turley

Robert Adam
John Seale

Thoms Halbert
Henry Darnes

Mathew Campbell
Edward Blackburn

Jams Adams
George Williams

William Triplett
William Richards

Sampson Darrell
Jams Connell

John Hunter
John Monroe

Thomas Monroe
in all 142

Humphrey Peake

John Anderson

Edward Payne

Jams Duneale

Jams Moor

Marcellus Littlejohn

William Stone

Lewis Ellzey

Thos Coffer

John Ramsay

Robert Speeke

Philip Grymes

Jas Lawrie

William Balinger

Richard Arrell

John Williams

William Halley

Edward Washington

Paul Turley

Bryan Alison

William Scott

John O’Daniel

Charles Thrift

Samuel Johnson

Charles Alexander

Moses Simpson

Absolom Thrift

Peter Waggoner

Thomas Moss

William Cash

Jams Martin

Gilbert Simpson Jun.

Peter Turley

Henry Darns

Tyler Waugh

Peter Mauzey

William Carlane

William Richards

Jams Connell

Thomas Ford

John Martin

George Martin

in all 185


Title: Spinning and Weaving Records, 1768
From: Washington, George
To:

[1768]

Spun & Wove in the year 1768 for my own use as follow
   Viz.

Yards
Weight
⟨Price⟩

Linnen
66 1/2
30
£1.13. 3

24 1/2
13
. 8. 2

34 1/2
17
.11. 5

36
17
.11. 8

33 1/2
17
.11. 3

33
16
.11. 4

34
17
.14. 2

33 1/2
18
.13.11

13
5
1. 6.

41
19
.13. 8

40
11
2. 0. 0

41
22
.13. 8

43 1/2
22
.14. 6

42
23
.14.

46
24
.15. 4

52
31
.17. 6

56
30
.18.10

46
26
.15. 4

49 1/2
26
.16. 8

50 1/2
26
.17.

815 3/4
410
16.17. 8

deduct
43

3. 6.

772 3/4

13.11. 8

Woolen
48 1/2
43
£1. 4. 3

49 3/4
57
1. 4.11

50
66
1. 5.

50
66
1. 5.

50
68
1. 5.

53
63
1. 2. 3

54
63
1. 2. 8

365 1/4
426
8. 9. 1

Linsey
46
51
.19. 2

48 3/4
47
1. 0. 3

49 3/4
49
1. 0. 8

144 1/2
147
3. 0. 1

Cotton
7

1. 1. 0

33

1. 8. 0

40

2. 9. 0

Linsey
144 1/2
147
3. 0. 1

Woolen
365 1/4
426
8. 9. 1

Linnen
815 3/4
410
16.17. 8

Total
1365 1/2

30.15.10

A Comparison drawn, between Manufactoring, & Importing; the Goods on the otherside Viz.

To 509 yds of best Cottn to supply the place of 365 Yds
s.d.

wool and 144 yds Linsey @ 1/6
£ 38. 3. 6

To 773 yds of best Ozbs. as on the otherside @ 8d.
25.15. 0

To 40 yds Huc[kabac]k @ 2/
4. 0. 0

To 13 yds Diapr @ 3/
1.19.

To 7 yds Jeans @ 5/
1.15.

To 33 yds Cotton @ 2/
    3. 6.

74.18. 6

Charges 12½ prCt
   9. 7. 4

84. 5.10

25 prCt diffe Excha:
  21. 1. 5

Curry
£105. 7. 3

Wool to make 365 and 144 yds of woolen Cloth viz. 499 yds @ 1/3
32. 5. 0

Hemp to make the Contra cloth 800 lbs. @ 4d.
13. 6. 6

Weavg the above Cloth that is 509 yds Woolen, 773 yds Ozgs, Cotton, &ca
  30.15.10

76. 7. 4

Ballance
  28.19.11

£105. 7. 3

Note. by this Acct it appears that the above Ballance £28.19s.11d. is all that is to defray the expence of Spinning—hire of one white Woman, & 5 Negro Girls—Cloathing—Victualling—Wheels &ca

         Total amt of Weavg is £54.3.4
         My own Work

£ 30.15.10

For Sundries
  23. 7. 6

£ 54. 3. 4


Title: Cash Accounts, January 1769
From: Washington, George
To:

[January 1769]

Cash

Jany 12—
To Cash won at Cards
£0.14.0

To Ditto recd of Mr B[ryan] Fairfax for a Huntg Horn
0. 6.0

To Ditto recd of Ditto on acct of Cards
0. 2.3

Contra

Jany  7—
By Charity 7/6. By Cards 7/6
0.15.0

By Chs Turner on acct of Mastr Custis
0. 5.6

10—
By 54 Gallns of Strong Beer of Mr Mercer @ 1/4
3.12.0

By 52 Do of Ale of Do 11d.
2. 7.8

12—
By Mr John Muir for his fidler the Ball on occasion of the Election
1. 0.0

By Servants 6/9
0. 6.9

21—
By Jno. Prescot Balle of his Acct
6.14.6

By Ditto mendg Jno. Custis’s Boots
0. 2.0

28—
By freight of 500 Bushels of Oats from the Plantation on the Eastn Shore
6. 5.0


Title: To George Washington from William Crawford, 7 January 1769
From: Crawford, William
To: Washington, George

Dr sir
Spring gardin [Pa.] Jany 7th 1769

By V. Crawford Receved your Letter dated Novr 13th and inclosed twenty pounds Pensilvania mony.
I wrot you by Mr Harrison, he told me he gave Mrs Washington my Letter but you was not at home.
At my Return from Fredrick over the mountain, the Survayor was Runing Land out for such as was Redy to pay him, Emedetly I got him ⟨to Run⟩ out your Land, have done it as if for my self

taking all the good Land and Leveing all that was sory only som Joyning the Mill seat.
It came out in Locations as other Land—but was all Run out in one body but the survayor will be paid for Every 300 Acres notwith standing he run the hole in one body, he says it is the Rule of the Office, there is in Each Survay 332 and 333 Acres so I had good Meashure.
The Land you was to have of My Brother John Stephenson when the Survayor com was Located, he Lost all that is good without he can Purches the man’s Right which he intends to do if he can, but I dout it as People from Pensilvania hold Land High You Mentioned the Lins of the Colonys being Extended Soon or at Least Such a plan was on foot and that they Officers would Obtain there Lands Agreeable to his Majesties Proclamation.
I am at a Looss whare they will Lay it of as they Land to the Southard of Penns Line is very Sory Except in some spots unlass it is Layd of as you in a Letter before wrot me.
I have not bin Down on any Part of the Litle Conaway but has Convarsed with Numbers that has bin from the head to the Mouth ho tells me there is no Large bodys of good Land on it is Chiefly mountains and brooken Land with hear and there a peace of very good Land.
In a few days I intend ⟨of⟩ Monongahalia to Run out som Land there which Draft I shall bring Down with to your house About the first of Feby or Midle, I should have gone befor but was stopt by the Road as I had it to finish.
I have found out a peace or two More of good Land in Pens Line which you may have I have taken them good for you, if you Chuse them I cold have taken more if I had thought they Quitrents would have bin Lesend as it is from a pany to a half pany an Acre.
As Soon as I return from up the River I am to go over Monongahalia to Look at som Land two men has found on a Creek Calld Teen Mile Creek and if I Like the Land you shall have any of it you may Like I Shall be better able to satisfie you when I see you. Sir I am your most Hume Sarvt

W. Crawford

N.B. By the Commanding Officer at Fort pit there is a Negr⟨o⟩ woman sent me ho was taken las war from a place Calld Drapers Medows then they property of one Majr Winston ho is Sence

Dead their was at first 22 taken in all from him but savaral got away and got to there Master again.
I understand the Colony paid for them if so she now belongs to the Colony.
If it is not to much Trouble for you I should be oblidged to you to inquire and find out the Truth of the Matter and you to Purches her of the Colony for m⟨e⟩ Provided they would wait any time for the money. it would be doing me a great faviour.
There is three more I beleve I can get from the Nation with som Trouble, they wench I have Run away from them a cam to Fort pit.
I am a fraid there is som on the sien bying her alredy. W.C.


Title: To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 11 January 1769
From: Boucher, Jonathan
To: Washington, George

Dear Sir
Fredericksbg 11th Janry 1769

I have been much concern’d that it has not been in my Power to spend a few Days at Mount Vernon, as I hop’d I should. A very painful Disorder I labour’d under when Mastr Custis left Me, confin’d Me to my Bed a Fortnight, and now it is too late to set out, when I expect all my little Flock to return immediately, as Some of Them already are. You will please therefore to let Mastr Custis know, that it will be to no Purpose for Him now to wait for Me, as We proposed when We parted; & that I shall expect to see Him at St Mary’s as soon as ever a good Day or two may tempt Him to set out.
If Mr Magowan be still with You, be so good as to enquire, if He recd a Lr fm Me abt a Month ago: The Parish in Louisa I mentioned to Him is still vacant, tho’ warmly sollicited for by his Fellow Candidate Mr Coutts, & others. I am, very respectfully, Yr most Obedt Hble servt

Jonan Boucher


Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 12 January 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Mount Vernon Jany 12th 1769

In looking over my order (of the 20th of June last) for Goods, I perceive that I have omitted sending for Dutch Blanketting for the use of my Estate on Potomack—an Article I much want, and

must beg the favour of you to send me by the first Ship bound to this River. Three pieces are requisite; and if they cannot be got here (in a vessel to Potomack) by the middle or last of October, I must, in that case, desire they may be sent to York or James River to the care of Mr Joseph Valentine; as some of my People will suffer greatly for want of them, if they do not come to my hands before Winter setts in. From him I can fall upon some method to fetch them; although it woud be vastly more desireable to receive them by a Vessel directly to this River if any such shoud offer. I am Gentn Yr Most Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 25 January 1769
From: Stewart, Robert
To: Washington, George

My Dear Colo.
Kingston in Jamaica Janry 25th 1769

I was some weeks out of Town for the benefit of my Health, which I seldom enjoy here, on my return to this place I had the immense pleasure to receive both your Affectionate and most acceptable Favors of the 5th August via Barbados and of the 1st Novemr under Cover from my Friend Mr Jameison from Norfolk breathing those Sentiments of real Friendship which I have on all occasions had the happiness to experience by which I think myself greatly hond and which I will ever deem one of the most happy and valueable acquisitions I made in Life, the kind manner in which you are pleased to enter into my present situation and the fears you apprehend on my accot from the nature of this Climate at once evince the warmth of your regard and the rectitude of your opinion, which from a great variety of

instances in the course of that agreeable part of my Life in which I had the honor and very great satisfaction to Serve under your Orders I ever found supported by those powerfull reasons that are the certain marks of real Genius and a solid Judgement which seldom unite in one person; The Physician who I have chiefly employ’d in this Island (where I in general have been Sick and at best rather enjoy the absence of pain than good Health) has given it as his opinion that a perfect Recovery from my Bilious Disorder with which I am so much afflicted is not to be hoped for but in a Cold Climate, I have therefore resolved to embark for England the first good opporty after the vernal Equinox and tho. my Constitution is much injured I have hopes given me that my native air exercise and a proper Regimen will in time effect the re:establishment of my Health, the deprivation of which in a great measure destroys the relish of most other enjoymts, you see by my dwelling so long upon this disagreeable Subject how much an Invalid I am—I sometime ago wrote for leave to appoint a Depy but should it not come in Time the Governor can on such an emergency grant 12 Months leave of absence and for that time appoint a Depy who I hope to get confirm’d in London in which event I can be able to save more from the part I shall receive than from the whole Emoluments of my Office if I continue in this very expensive & to me disagreeable place, whenever I get my Affairs settled in London I propose to retire either to the Highlands of Scotland or to the South of France as the Physicians shall direct till I can recover my Health and get clear of the heavy Burthen my long and very expensive attendance unavoidably brought me under, this I hope to accomplish in about four years and then I flatter myself with the pleasing hope of passing the Eveng of my Life with some degree of independence & comfort in that dear Country call’d Old England which I must confess I would prefer to all others—I observe with the utmost Gratitude that you have Drawen only for the Principal of the Money you was generously Pleased to advance for me! I really want words to convey the Ideas of what I feel on this Noble Act and fresh mark of your uncommon Friendship, I pray Heaven may one day or other enable me to demonstrate by actions what words can so imperfectly express in the mean time accept my dear Friend of my most Gratefull Thanks.

The accots you indulge me with of some of the Officers of the Virginia Regiment are very pleasing, I often think of that Corps who ow’d it’s distinguished Character to your Military Talents with uncommon satisfaction tho. blended with much regret from the situation of many of its brave Officers, who certainly have not been rewarded in any degree adequate to their Merit and uncommon Sufferings, I think without vanity we can assert that there never was and very probably never will be such another Provincial Regimt. I am truely glad that honest Weedon (for whom I have a great regard) is well and still maintains the same happy flow of Spirits and Joyous turn for which he was always remark’d what is become of your Secretary Mr Kirkpatrick whose lively Conversation and very Elegant Letters have so often made me happy? I see Mercer is appointed Lt Govr of N. Carolina but I do not yet learn whether it’s intended as a real advantage or a mere Feather—I observe with great pleasure that you prosecute your great and arduous undertaking on the Dismal Swamp, I most sincerely wish that your most sanguine hopes may be fully gratified which would produce the most desirable end of encreasing that Fortune which you so highly deserve & at the same time shew the Colonists what enterprise & perseverance can effect—The discontents and heartburnings which were some time ago rekindled in the Continental Colonies and which were once likely to be productive of very serious consequences gave me great uneasiness, But as that Subject has been so much & often handled by the most masterly pens it would be extreme presumption in me to say any thing upon it, especially to so excellent a Judge who is so immediately interested as you are, I hope and very earnestly wish that Parliament may hit upon some happy expedient that will put all to rights again.
I am astonish’d how my Letters to you from London could have miscarried I generally sent Jack (your old Courier) who still lives with me to the Virginia Coffee House with them, for I very seldom went into the City which I hate, and Mercer can tell you how often I lamented the great misfortune of not hearing from you, tho’ by incessant enquires I frequently had the great pleasure to hear of you. To recapitulate the various Planns I form’d to continue a Soldier and the infinite pains I took at different times to get into the Service of the East India Compy, of Portugal

and at length of even Russia, the numberless incidents that concurr’d at different Periods to thwart my views and to destroy sometimes the fairest Prospects would fill a large Vol: that even to you who is pleased to interest yourself in so Friendly a manner would prove insupportably tedious and insipid, however as you shew an inclination to be informd how I was disappointed in my Expedition to the Island of St John Please know that after reiterated Applications, after the Strongest assurances of Success, either a change of Ministers or Measures for in the Course of our attendance there was no less then five different Lords presided at the Board of Trade constantly blasted our hopes for upwards of three years, in which time however the Island was Survey’d and laid off in Lots of Twenty thousand Acres each, a magnificent Plan of the whole on which each Lot was mark’t & Numd was sent by the Surveyor General to the above Board and the Council at length determind that the Lots should be Drawn for by the different Memorialists at the Board of Trade & in presence of the Lords of that Board, by way of Lottery, however they added so great a number to the original Claimts, that very few got more than half a Lot and some not 1/10th—Capt. Allanby late of the Navy a Gentleman of a considerable Landed Property in the N. of England and I had the good Fortune to Draw one of the best Lots between us, lying on the principal Harbour, he, his Lady and Family goes over there next Spring but I dread that my inability of settling my ten thousand Acres, and pressing demands to pay off old Scores will force me to Sell it for a trifle, the great number that were by Ministerial Interest admittd without any Just claim disgusted several of Rank & Fortune for whom I was to have acted and made them relinquish their pretensions—I am one of those Officers who have commenced a Suit against the Great Rhansler of new York for a considerable part of his Estate in that Province, where I understand it is given against us, which indeed we expected, but make no doubt of it’s being given in our favour by the King & Council, I was very active in this affair (in the course of which three Changes happen’d in Administration⟨)⟩ however we with infinite pains got it pass’d the Board of Trade and afterwards the Council and at length got the Lords of the Treasury to agree that the Suit should be carried on at the Expence of the Crown a point of vast importance to half Pay Officers who had to Cope

with a man of a vast Estate, which he and his Fore Fathers have long possess’d. We likewise obtain’d a Royal Instruction to the Govr & Attorney Genl of new York to prosecute the Suit with vigour & in the event of its being given against us to appeal forthwith, But procuring the Surveys, Copies of all the different Gra⟨nts⟩ Vouchers &Ca likewise defraying the Expences of the Officers employ’d in that Service and an infinite detail of Contingences cost a great deal of Money each pays according to his Rank I pay at Lt Colo. and consequently in case of Success will receive five thousand Acres, My Rank tho’ well known to be in your Regimt (I carefully avoided calling it a Provincial Corps) was never in the least objected to, either by any of those Great Boards nor by any of the Officers adventurers in this uncommon undertaking, the Lands are situated on the Banks of the River Hudson between the Cities of N. York & Albany, and a great part of them highly cultivated—I have been often told in London that I was Virginia mad, I fear you will begin to think that I am become Land mad but even should we miscarry which is exceedingly improbable I will in a few years get over it, and in case of Success I shall soon be reliev’d from my present Difficulties.
Your old Acquaintance Docr Cockburn has been Dead some time, his widow is in the Country but I on rect of yours immediatly waited on his Son and had the pleasure of delivering yours and your Lady’s Message he herewith sends you a Letter.
Here we have nothing new or entertaining and as we have our News from the same Source with you it is almost impossible we can ever transmit you any, should no opporty offer soon from your River for this Island I beg you will do me the honr to write to me at London under Cover to Lauchlin Macleane Esqr. Queen Ann Street, Cavendish Square, Macleane is now become a Member of the British Senate and can in a great degree enable us to carry on an uninterrupted Correspondence whatever part of Europe I may be in than which nothing can be more agreeable to me.
I beg you will do me the honor to present my humble Respects to Mrs Washington in the warmest strain of affectionate Gratitude—where are her Children? if in England I beg to know what place? that I may have the pleasure of waiting on them and paying them every degree of Respect and attention in my

power—I ought now my dear Colo. to appologize for the tiresome length, inaccuracy and want of arrangement in the above Scrawl all I have to say is, that I cannot write you a short Letter tho’ hurried and that I know, that I am writing to a kind indulgent Friend who has always cherish’d my intentions and overlook’d my weaknesses—May Heaven Bless my Dear Colo. with every thing you desire or that can make you happy, even a distant Accot of which will constitute a very essential part of mine, I ever am with the strongest Regard and most Exalted Esteem My Dear Sir Your unalterably Affect Most Obliged and Faithfull hble Servt

Robert Stewart

Since writg the above I have sent three different Times without Success for Dr Cockburn’s Letter the Masr of the Vessel will wait no longer, if any comes will forward it by next oppy.


Title: To George Washington from John Posey, 28 January 1769
From: Posey, John
To: Washington, George

Sir,
Maryland January the 28: 1769

If you can conveniently lett my son hanson have few Bricks, to mend two ovens, it wou’d infinitely, oblidge me, besides Paying.
If my daughter Amelea wants any kind cloaths, that is agreable to Mrs Washington Please to lett her have—I will thankfully Pay—I thought been at home this month, but am afraid it will be the last next. I am Dear Sir, Your obt Humble Servt

Jno. Posey


Title: From George Washington to William Ramsay, 29 January 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Ramsay, William

Dear Sir,
Mount Vernon 29th January 1769.

Frequently as I have seen you of late, I have always forgot to inform you, that Mr Adam, on whom I have depended for money, declare’s his inability of supplying me; it is not only out of my power therefore to furnish you & Mr Fairfax with the sum asked, but to comply with sundry engagements of my own; for both of which I am really sorry.
Having once or twice of late heard you speak highly in praise

of the Jersey College, as if you had a desire of sending your Son William there (who I am told is a youth fond of study & instruction, & disposed to a sedentary studious Life; in following of which he may not only promote his own happiness, but the future welfare of others) I shou’d be glad, if you have no other objection to it than what may arise from the expence, if you wou’d send him there as soon as it is convenient & depend upon me for Twenty five pounds this Currency a year for his support so long as it may be necessary for the completion of his Education—If I live to see the accomplishment of this term, the Sum here stipulated shall be annually paid, and if I die in the mean while, this letter shall be obligatory upon my Heirs or Executors to do it according to the true intent & meaning hereof—No other return is expected or wished for, for this offer than that you will accept it with the same freedom & good will with which it is made, & that you may not even consider it in the ⟨mutilated⟩ of an obligation, or mention it as such; for be assur’d that from me, it never will be known. I am Dr Sir Your most obedt Servant

G: Washington


Title: Cash Accounts, February 1769
From: Washington, George
To:

[February 1769]

Cash

Feby 9—
To Captn [John] Dalton on Acct of Mrs Jane Shaw de[cease]d
£ 1. 7.0

To Cash recd for a Wether
1. 0.0

Contra

Feby 1—
By Doctr [Hugh] Mercer on Acct of Miss Custis
6. 0.0

4—
By Cards 19/—Negroe D[octo]r to Frederick
0.12.0

9—
By Messrs Carlyle & Dalton’s Acct
8.13.3

16—
By Joshua Evans for a Ring for Miss Custis
1.10.0

18—
By Doctr Rumney’s Acct agt Ditto
19. 6.6

By Do Ditto agt myself
4.18.0

By Mary Wilson
2. 0.0

21—
By a Firken of Butter of Mr Morson
3. 4.4 1/2

23—
By Mary Mason for Cakes at the Election
0.15.7 1/2

By Charity
0. 5.0

27—
By Susanna Bishop laying Phillis
.10.0


Title: Cash Accounts, March 1769
From: Washington, George
To:

[March 1769]

Cash

Mar. 1—
To Ditto [cash] for Ditto [wether]
£ 1. 0.0

20—
To Cash of Mr Josh Thompson
13. 6.3

23—
To Ditto from Mr Jno. Ariss for Mr Robert Alexandr
23. 2.4

29—
To Ditto recd from Valente Crawford on Acct of a judgt obtaind agt Chr[istopher] Hardwick by my Br. Chs Washington & wch he recd from the Sheriff of Loudoun
23. 4.5

Contra

4—
By Captn William Crawford
10. 0.0

5—
By Cash paid for Fieldg Lewis
0. 8.0

7—
By Exps. to Fredg 7/3. Shoeing my Horses 4/
0.11.3

By Cash gave my Mother
3. 0.0

8—
By Cards 1/6—Club at Weeden’s 2/6
0. 4.0

9—
By a pr of Boot Straps
0. 5.0

By Servants 1/3. Ferry at Falmouth 1/3
0. 2.6

By Exps. at Morgan’s 2/. Do in Surveying 4/6
0. 6.6

17—
By Wm Wood carrying chain 2 day’s
0. 5.0

18—
By Captn Robt Ashbys Acct for self & Son’s
8.18.0

By Servants 8/—Smith 1/7½
0. 8.7 1/2

22—
By Colo. Stephen’s Acct
4. 7.6

By Cash to Captn Wm Crawford viz. 7 Dollr 2.2.0 In paper Virga &ca 12.19.

23—
Ditto 3.
18. 1.0

By Servants 5/6—Exps. at Wests 13/6
0.19.0

25—
By James Davenport in a Swap &ca
2. 0.0

26—
By Cash pd Mr R. Alexander pr Lund Washington
23. 2.4

By Jno. Beedy Balle of Accts
0. 4.0

29—
By the Contra Sum sent my Br. Chs by Colo. [Burwell] Bassett
23. 4.5


Title: To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 1 March 1769 [letter not found]
From: Robert Cary & Company
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 1 Mar. 1769. On 25 July 1769 GW wrote Robert Cary & Co.: “the date of your Letter of the first of March.”


Title: Lease to Francis Ballinger, 17 March 1769
From: Washington, George,Ballinger, Francis
To:

[17 March 1769]

This Indenture made this Seventeenth day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Sixty nine Between George Washington of the County of Fairfax of the one part and Francis Ballinger of the County of Frederick of the other part Witnesseth that the said George Washington for and in Consideration of the Rents duties Reservations and Covenants herein after reserved and mentioned on the part and behalf of the said Francis Ballinger his heirs & Assigns to be paid done and performed hath demised Granted and to farm let unto the said Francis Ballinger his heirs and Assigns one certain Messuage Tenement or Parcell of Land in the Tenure and occupation of the said Francis Ballinger now being Containing One hundred and Twenty Acres more or less lying in Fauquier County and known and distinguished in a platt of the whole Tract by Lott No. 5 being part of a tract Granted to George Carter Esqr. decd, for 3312 Acres lying in Ashby’s Bent of the Blue ridge Beginning ⟨above⟩ red Oaks and a white Oak Saplin C[orne]r. to Lott no. 4 in a line of Lott No. 3 and extending with a line of the said Lott No. 4 N. 57 E. 19⟨7⟩ poles to a cluster of Chesnutt Oaks on the side of the lost mountain Cr to the said

Lott No. 4 thence N. 37 W. 130 ps. to a white Oak on a branch thence down the same according to the Several Meanders thereof to a blazed white Oak standing in the fork of this Branch and another Corner to Mr James Wood thence with his line S. 58 W. to a Corner of Lott No. 3 standing therein thence with the Line of the said Lott to the Beginning Containing as above together with all profits Commodities and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining reserving and Excepting unto the said George Washington his heirs and Assigns all Mines Minerals and Quaries and the use of them with free Ingress Egress and Regress into and from the said demised Premesis and the Priviledge of hunting and fowling in or upon any part Thereof To have and To hold the said Messuage Tenement or Parcell of one hundred and Twenty Acres of Land with the appurtenances (Except as befor Excepted) unto the said Francis Ballinger his heirs and Assigns from the Day of the date hereof for and during the natural lives of him the said Francis Ballinger Edward Ballinger his son and Frances Ballinger his daughter and the longest liver of them Yielding and Paying unto the said George Washington his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns Yearly and every Year for and during the Space and Term before mentioned the rent of four pounds Current money of Virginia at his dwelling house in Fairfax County or to any person legally authorized and appointed to Collect and receive the same by the said George Washington his heirs &c. (the first of which rents to become due and Payable on the 25th day of december in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred Seventy two) and the same day in each succeeding Year afterwards and if it happens that the said Reserved Yearly rent or any part thereof be in arrear or unpaid for the space of Forty days next after the day whereon the same ought to be paid that then and so often as it shall so happen it shall and may be Lawfull to and for the said George Washington his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns into the said demised premesis or any part thereof to enter and distrain and the distress or Distresses then and there found to take lead drive and carry away and thereof to dispose according to Law and if no sufficient Distress or distresses can or may be found in or upon the said demised Premesis wherewith the said Rent and Arrears (if any there happen to be) may be fully satisfied and

paid. that then it shall and may be Lawfull to and for the said George Washington his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns into the said hereby demised Premesis or any part thereof in the name of the whole without demand to reenter and the same to have again repossess and enjoy as in his or their first or former Estate any thing herein to the Contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. and the said Francis Ballinger for himself his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns Doth Covenant Promise and agree to and with the said George Washington that he the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns shall and will Yearly and every Year during the Continuance of this demise pay unto the said George Washington his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns the before reserved Rent of Five pounds Currency on the day whereon the same ought to be paid and in the manner as before reserved and mentioned and the said Francis Ballinger for himself his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth further Covenant Promise and agree to and with the said George Washington that he the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns shall not tend or suffer to be tended on the said demised Premesis above a full and sufficient Crop for five Able working hands in any one Year that is to say such hands as are Generally allowed and acknowledged in (Virginia) to be full sharers in a crop, and reckoning so many weaker hands for a sharer or Labouring hand as shall be adjudged equal thereto by three reasonable and Sensible men in Case of a dispute and difference in opinion between the parties. and if at any time it shall appear that there is more than a full and sufficient Crop for five able working hands tended on the hereby demised Premesis that then the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns shall and will pay unto the said George Washington his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns the Sum of Thirty shillings over and above the before reserved Yearly rent for every and each hands Crop more than five and so in proportion Yearly and every Year while the same is Continued or suffered to be done and that the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns shall not make or suffer to be made any manner of Waste of any sort of Timber on any part of the hereby demised Land and Premesis and if at any time any timber fit for Carpenters or Coopers

use or rails should be Cut down in clearing Ground or other wise the same shall all be worked up before anymore is cut down and not suffered to rot or Perish under the Penalty of Twenty shillings over and above the value of such timber to be paid by the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns to the said George Washington his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns for every such offence and that the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns shall not use sell or otherwise dispose of or suffer to be sold used or otherwise disposed of any sort of Timber or Wood from off any part of the hereby demised Land and Premesis in any manner whatsoever (Except for the Proper use and Benefit of the hereby demised Land and Premesis) without the Consent of the said George Washington his heirs or Assigns first obtained under his or their hand and moreover the said Francis Ballinger for himself his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth further Covenant Promise and agree to and with the George Washington that he the said Francis Ballinger will leave standing in some convenient part of the above Granted Premesis and in one Body at least Eighteen Acres of Woods untouched which Woods shall remain and be held as a future Support of the Plantation or Farm at the Expiration or Determination of this Lease and furthermore the said Francis Ballinger for himself his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth Covenant Promise and agree to and with the said George Washington that he the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns shall and will within the Space of ten Years at furthest from the date hereof build or Cause to be built on some Convenient part of the hereby demised Land and Premesis a dwelling house at least Sixteen feet square of good framed work or of Logs Sawed or well hewed and also a good Barn or Tobacco house answerable to the Quantity of Land hereby leased or other houses and Building equal thereto and the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns shall and will always during the Continuance of this Demise keep the said houses or Buildings in good order and repair and if at any time any of them should go to decay or happen destroyed by any Accident shall Build others as good in the room of them and that the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns shall & will also within the

before mentioned space of Ten Years plant on som Convenient part of the hereby demised Land and Premesis an orchard of at least fifty winter Apple trees at thirty feet distance every way from each other and one hundred peach trees at Sixteen feet distance every way from each other and keep the same always during the Continuance of this demise well trimmed pruned fenced in and secured from horses Cattle and other Creatures and if any of them should die or decay that the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns shall plant others of the same kind in the room of them so as during the Continuance of this demise always to keep up the same number and further the said Francis Ballinger for himself his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth Covenant Promise and agree to and with the said George Washington that no Assignment Transferrance or other Conveyance whatsoever of the hereby demise Land and Premesis or any part thereof shall be made by the said Francis Ballinger his heirs or Assigns or any other Person or Persons whatsoever in his or their behalf to any Person or Persons whatsoever without the Consent of the said George Washington his heirs or Assigns first obtained under his or their hand and Seal otherwise such Assignment Transferrance or Conveyance to be void and of no Effect and further the said Francis Ballinger for himself his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth Covenant Promise and agree to and with the said George Washington that he the said Francis Ballinger his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns shall and will always during the Continuance of this demise keep the said hereby demised Land and Premesis with the Appurtenances in good and Sufficient order and repair and at the Expiration of the said demise whenever it shall happen shall and will deliver the same in good sufficient Tenantable order repair and Condition unto the said George Washington his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and the said George Washington for himself his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth Covenant Promise and agree to and with the said Francis Ballinger that he the said Francis Ballinger his heirs and Assigns and all and every other Person and Persons who by virtue of this demise shall be legally and Justly possessed of the hereby demised Land & Premesis shall and may under the Rents Payments Penalties reservations restrictions provisoes

Conditions and agreements herein before mentioned Peaceably and Quietly have hold use Occupy possess and enjoy the said hereby demised Land and Premesis with the Appurtenances during the before mentioned Space and Term of three lives without any trouble Molestation or Interruption from him the said George Washington his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns or any other Person or Persons Claiming or to Claim by from or under him them or any of them and lastly for the sure and Effectual observance of all and Singular the Articles Covenants and Agreements afore mentioned the Parties to each other do respectively bind themselves their heirs Executors Administrators ⟨or⟩ Assigns in the sum of Fifty pounds Current money of Virginia In Witness whereof the said Parties have hereunto Interchangeably set their hands and affixed their Seals the day month and year first above written.

Signed Sealed and Delivered
G. Washington L.S.

In the Presence of
Francis Ballinger his f mark L.S.

James Wood

Jos: Berry

Ezekel Jickens his X mark

At a Court held for Fauquier County the 28th day of August 1769 This Indenture was proved by the oath of James Wood a Witness thereto and at a Court held for the said County the 25th day of September 1769 The same was proved by the Oaths of Joseph Berry and Thomas Hathaway Witnesses thereto and ordered to be Recorded

Teste J. Brooke C.C.


Title: Cash Accounts, April 1769
From: Washington, George
To:

[April 1769]

Cash

Apl 25—
To Cash recd for Fish
£ 1. 0. 0

28—
To Ditto recd from Captn H[anson] Marshall
2. 5. 6

To Ditto recd for Fish
6.14. 0

Contra

April 1—
By Cards 24/6—pd Mr [Walter] Magowan 1/6
1. 6. 0

By Cash given away 1/3—Charity 5/
0. 6. 3

By William Skilling
2.15. 0

6—
By John Alton
5. 0. 0

7—
By Lund Washington
5. 0. 0

17—
By Cards 55/6—Charity 40/
4.15. 6

By cash given away 1/6—Cards 21/
1. 2. 6

19—
By 50 lb. Myrtle Wax @ 1/2
2.18. 6

25—
By Charity
0. 6. 0

By 50 Bushels of Salt @ 1/6
3.10. 6

28—
By Alexander McKenzie—Taylors Acct
1.15. 4

By Cash paid Mary Wilson
1. 0.10

29—
By 4393 feet Inch Plank @ 6/
13. 3. 6

By 416 feet Inch and Quarter Do @ 7/
1. 9. 2

By Charity
0. 5. 0


Title: From George Washington to George Mason, 5 April 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Mason, George

Dear sir,
Mount Vernon 5th April 1769.

Herewith you will receive a letter and sundry papers which were forwarded to me a day or two ago by Doctor Ross of Bladensburg. I transmit them with the greater pleasure, as my

own desire of knowing your sentiments upon a matter of this importance exactly coincides with the Doctrs inclinations.
At a time when our lordly Masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something shou’d be done to avert the stroke and maintain the liberty which we have derived from our Ancestors; but the manner of doing it to answer the purpose effectually is the point in question.
That no man shou’d scruple, or hesitate a moment to use a—ms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends; is clearly my opinion; Yet A—ms I wou’d beg leave to add, should be the last resource; the de[r]nier resort. Addresses to the Throne, and remonstrances to parliament, we have already, it is said, proved the inefficacy of; how far then their attention to our rights & priviledges is to be awakened or alarmed by starving their Trade & manufactures, remains to be tryed.
The northern Colonies, it appears, are endeavouring to adopt this scheme—In my opinion it is a good one; & must be attended with salutary effects, provided it can be carried pretty generally into execution; but how far it is practicable to do so, I will not take upon me to determine. That there will be difficulties attending the execution of it every where, from clashing interests, & selfish designing men (ever attentive to their own gain, & watchful of every turn that can assist their lucrative views, in preference to any other consideration) cannot be denied; but in the Tobacco Colonies where the Trade is so diffused, and in a manner wholly conducted by Factors for their principals at home, these difficulties are certainly enhanced, but I think not insurmountably increased, if the Gentlemen in their several counties wou’d be at some pains to explain matters to the people, & stimulate them to a cordial agreement to purchase none but certain innumerated articles out of any of the Stores after such a period, nor import nor purchase any themselves. This, if it did not effectually withdraw the Factors from their Importations, wou’d at least make them extremely cautious in doing it, as the prohibited Goods could be vended to none but the non-associater, or those who wou’d pay no regard to their association; both of whom ought to be stigmatized, and made the objects of publick reproach.

The more I consider a Scheme of this sort, the more ardently I wish success to it, because I think there are private, as well as public advantages to result from it—the former certain, however precarious the other may prove; for in respect to the latter I have always thought that by virtue of the same power (for here alone the authority derives) which assume’s the right of Taxation, they may attempt at least to restrain our manufactories; especially those of a public nature; the same equity & justice prevailing in the one case as the other, it being no greater hardship to forbid my manufacturing, than it is to order me to buy Goods of them loaded with Duties, for the express purpose of raising a revenue. But as a measure of this sort will be an additional exertion of arbitrary power, we cannot be worsted I think in putting it to the Test. On the other hand, that the Colonies are considerably indebted to Great Britain, is a truth universally acknowledged. That many families are reduced, almost, if not quite, to penury & want, from the low ebb of their fortunes, and Estates daily selling for the discharge of Debts, the public papers furnish but too many melancholy proofs of. And that a scheme of this sort will contribute more effectually than any other I can devise to immerge the Country from the distress it at present labours under, I do most firmly believe, if it can be generally adopted. And I can see but one set of people (the Merchants excepted) who will not, or ought not, to wish well to the Scheme; and that is those who live genteely & hospitably, on clear Estates. Such as these were they, not to consider the valuable object in view, & the good of others, might think it hard to be curtail’d in their living & enjoyments; for as to the penurious man, he saves his money, & he saves his credit; having the best plea for doing that, which before perhaps he had the most violent struggles to refrain from doing. The extravagant & expensive man has the same good plea to retrench his Expences—He is thereby furnished with a pretext to live within bounds, and embraces it—prudence dictated œconomy to him before, but his resolution was too weak to put it in practice; for how can I, says he, who have lived in such & such a manner change my method? I am ashamed to do it: and besides, such an alteration in the System of my living, will create suspicions of a decay in my fortune, & such a thought the world must not harbour; I will e’en continue my course: till at last the course

discontinues the Estate, a sale of it being the consequence of his perseverance in error. This I am satisfied is the way that many who have set out in the wrong tract, have reasoned, till ruin stares them in the face. And in respect to the poor & needy man, he is only left in the same situation he was found; better I might say, because as he judges from comparison, his condition is amended in proportion as it approaches nearer to those above him.
Upon the whole therefore, I think the Scheme a good one, and that it ought to be tryed here, with such alterations as the exigency of our circumstances render absolutely necessary; but how, & in what manner to begin the work, is a matter worthy of consideration; and whether it can be attempted with propriety, or efficacy (further than a communication of sentiments to one another) before May, when the Court & Assembly will meet together in Williamsburg, and a uniform plan can be concerted, and sent into the different counties to operate at the same time, & in the same manner every where, is a thing I am somewhat in doubt upon, & shou’d be glad to know your opinion of. I am Dr Sir Your most Obt humble Servant

G: Washington


Title: To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 17 April 1769 [letter not found]
From: Boucher, Jonathan
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Jonathan Boucher, 17 April 1769. On 24 April GW wrote to Boucher: “Your favour of the 17th came to my hands.”


Title: From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 24 April 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Boucher, Jonathan

Revd Sir,
Mount Vernon 24th April 1769

Your favour of the 17th came to my hands this day; the contents of which, or the Letter itself, shall soon reach Mr Addison’s hands—In respect to the Dancing Gentry, I am glad to find you have such choice of them, and that Newman has got the start of his Rival Spooner, because I have heard him well spoken of as a teacher in that Science—The other’s Misfortunes might recommend him to the notice & charity of the well dispos’d, but if his accomplishments in that way are inferior to the others, it ought by no means to entitle him to the preference. you will be so good therefore Sir to enter Mastr Custis with Mr Newman for a year or otherwise, as he may form his School—Mrs Washington I can venture to assure you, will be very glad to see you at Mount Vernon in the recess of Whitsun Hollidays, but it is a ⟨pleasure⟩ I must be deprivd of as I expect to be in Williamsburg before, & long after that time—Our best wishes attend yourself Miss Boucher & Family and I am Revd Sir Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: To George Washington from John West, Jr., 26 April 1769
From: West, John Jr.
To: Washington, George

Dear Sir.
Cameron April 26. 1769.

Inclosed you have your Papers which I borrowed.
In Answer to the Sale of the Land—I will take Two Pistoles pr Acre for it, which I Think a reasonable Price; Or I will give that Sum per acre for Posey’s, if sold, or more.
If you incline to purchase, I shall not call on you for the Money very soon, Six Months at least you may have, perhaps a Year or Two; for as I told you, The Money arising from the Sale of this Land I purpose to lay out in other Lands; And have no particular purchase in view at present. I wish you a pleasant Journey, & safe return home. I am Dear Sir, your most Obedt Hble Servt

John West junr


Title: To George Washington from George Mason, 28 April 1769
From: Mason, George
To: Washington, George

Dr Sir
Gunston-Hall 28th April 1769.

Upon looking over the Association, of which I sent You a Copy, I have made some few alterations in it, as ⅌ Memdm on the other Side.
I beg Your Care of the inclosed Letters; & heartily wishing you (what I fear you will not have) an agreeable Session, I am Dr Sr Yr most obdt Sert

G. Mason

P.S. I shall take it as a particular Favour if You’ll be kind enough to get me two pr of Gold Snaps made at Wmsburg for my little Girls; they are small rings with a joint in them, to wear in the Ears, instead of Earrings: also a pr of Toupee Tongs.


Title: To George Washington from Thomas, Lord Fairfax, 30 April 1769
From: Fairfax of Cameron, Thomas Fairfax, sixth baron of
To: Washington, George

Sr
Greenway Court April 30th 1769

I have sent down to my Brother a Plan of the County of Frederick; I hear Mr Harrison has got a Petition for a division to come down as low as Ceder Creek, which will be approved by our Burgesses in order to prevent the lower part of the County from ever attempting to make another Division which will be a great prejudice to the Inhabitans on Potomack. I shall therefore be obliged to you to endeavour to prevent the same unless they will consent to come no lower down than Flint Run & John Funks Mill now belonging to Lawrance Snap. I remain Sr your humble Servant

Fairfax


Title: Cash Accounts, May 1769
From: Washington, George
To:

[May 1769]

Cash

May 1—
To Ditto [cash] of Mr Chas Smith by Mr Edd Taylor
£  5. 0. 6

3—
To Ditto Won at Cards
4.17. 6

4—
To Ditto borrowed of Colo. Fieldg Lewis
50. 0. 0

6—
To Ditto recd of Mr P[hilip] Whitehd Claiborne for a years Interest of his Bond
14. 0. 0

8—
To Ditto recd from Mr Wm Dandridge on Acct of Do.
22. 0. 5

9—
To Ditto recd of Doctr Js Carter for a years Intt of Mrs [Joanna] McKenzies Bond
10.16. 0

To Cash of Mr James Gibson for a Bill of Excha: dra. by Jas Kirk for £160.0.0 Stg Exchange 22½ prCt 36.
196. 0. 0

To Cash recd of Mr Jos. Valentine
140. 0.10 1/2

To Ditto Won at Cards
1. 5. 0

13—
To Ditto recd from Mr Josh Valentine
24. 0. 0

Ditto recd of Do on Acct of Intt due from Francis Foster
14. 0. 0

14—
To Cash won at Cards
1. 0. 0

23—
To Cash recd from Wm Cash on Acct of Weavg
0. 2. 9

26—
To Ditto recd from Mr Wm Triplett on Acct of Do
2. 0. 0

27—
To Ditto won at Cards
0. 8. 0

Contra

May 1—
By Expences at Peyton’s Ordy
0.19. 7 1/2

By Ditto at Hubbards
0. 8. 6

By Ditto at Todds 4/. Servants 2/
0. 6. 0

2—
By Ferriages at Ruffins
0. 4. 0

By Expences of my Sick Horse
0.15. 0

3—
By Anthony Hay for 3 purses (that is Subscripn to 3 Wmsburg Purse Races)
3. 0. 0

4—
By Cash paid Peyton Randolph Esqr. for my tenth of 100 Tickets taken in Partnership with himself and others in Colo. Byrds Lottery
50. 0. 0

By Cards 20/. Servants 2/6—Charity 6/3
1. 8. 9

7—
By Dinner & Supper at Ayscoughs 10/. Coffee 2/
0.12. 0

8—
By Cash lost at Cards
1. 0. 0

10—
By Cash paid for 2 pr of Snap Earings for Colo. Mason
1. 0. 0

11—
By Charity 20/. Ferriages at York 3/9
1. 3. 9

13—
By Servants 1/3—Gave away 2/6
0. 3. 9

18—
By Anthony Hays Acct 32/9. And Club at Do arisg from the Associators meetg there 20/
2.12. 9

By 2 Oz. Pollichrista 2/. 2 Oz. Gumguacum 2/
0. 4. 0

By the Farmers Letters 3/6. a pr of Gloves 2/6
0. 6. 0

By Coffee 1/3. lent Edmd Randolph
0.10. 0

By Alexander Craig for J. P. Custis 1.15. Ditto for myself .16.
2.11. 0

13—
By Cash paid Colo. Fieldg Lewis by Mr James Gibson
196. 0. 0

By Ditto paid Do myself
2.16. 1 1/2

19—
By Servants 5/—Ditto 7/6
0.12. 6

20—
By Cash Lent Mr Robt Rutherford
5. 0. 0

By George Lafong Barber pr Rect
2. 6. 0

By Mrs Campbells Acct for Board &ca
6.15. 0

By Mr [William] Rind for Gazette due this Month &ca
1. 0. 0

21—
By Mrs Bassett for Sundries viz.

1 piece of Chintz
2.12.6

1 Hair Pin
. 6.

1 Comb for the Hair
3. 9.
3. 2. 3

By Servants 3/9—Exps. at Todds 6/5
0.10. 2

22—
By Expences at Port Royal
0.10. 4

By Ferriages at Do 2/6. Servants 1/3
0. 3. 9

23—
By Cash Lent Valentine Crawford
1. 0. 0

25—
By Joseph Sole Alterg J. P. Custis’s Boots
0. 2. 6

26—
By Expences at Cameron
0. 3. 9

27—
By Mrs Washington
2. 0. 0

By Mary Wilson
0.15. 0

28—
By Servants
0. 3. 9


Title: To George Washington from William Peareth, 1 May 1769 [letter not found]
From: Peareth, William
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from William Peareth, 1 May 1769. On 20 Sept. 1770 GW wrote to Peareth: “Your letter of the 1st of May 1769 . . . came to the Exrs . . . about 1st of Decr last.”


Title: To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 20 May 1769
From: Capel & Osgood Hanbury
To: Washington, George

Esteem’d Friend
London May 20th 1769

We have the pleasure to advise the Receipt of thy favor of 4th Novemr last, and to acquaint thee, that thy Bill to J. Gibson for £100 has been duly Honor’d, & is plac’d to the Debit of J.P. Custis’s Account.

We now forward Accounts Sales for his 9 Hhds Tobacco received ⅌ the Hanbury which is under cover of a Letter address’d to him inclos’d herein—we flatter ourselves they will prove satisfactory, as we can truly say the greatest care was taken in the disposal of them.
We have ⟨c⟩harter’d a Ship call’d the Reward of about 300 Hhds for Capt. Necks, in which he now goes, we strongly recommend it to our friends as well for their own sakes as ours, to facilitate his quick return, and we rely greatly on thy friendly assistance to promote this desireable event.
We hope Capt. Esten will have taken his departure for London before this gets to hand, & that he will come home to an early Market, as we may thereby be enabled to furnish good Accot Sales for his Cargo, the present prices being from 3¼ to 4d. ⅌ lb. for Exportation, and from 10d. to 11½d. for Home Consumption—Our C.H. has been much indisposed for these 2 or 3 Months past, but is now considerably mended. We remain with great regard Thy assured Friends

Capel & Osgood Hanbury


Title: From George Washington to James Tilghman, 25 May 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Tilghman, James

Sir,
Fairfax County Virginia, May 25th. 1769.

By a Letter which I have lately receivd from Mr William Crawford—who was entrusted with the care & trouble of making some Entrys of Land for me, near the Settlement of Redstone, in the Provence of Pensylvania—I am inform’d, that he met with every civility, and endulgence in the matter, which the Rules of your Office could consistently give—For this Sir, you have my particular acknowledgements—we were both unacquainted with the modes requisite to be pursued; & therefore, any advice and favour, was truely obliging.

He also informs me that the Governor—thrô your means I presume—was pleasd to take some notice of my application; which, as it was an honour I had little reason to expect, it consequently became more polite & condescending in him—true it is, I was anxious of obtaining some little possession in a Country that I have experienced many toils and hardships in; but then, I lookd for nothing more than the common terms; if, on the contrary, the Governor has been pleasd to direct my several Entries to be made in one Survey, the particular Indulgence of it, is entitled to my particular thanks, & I must beg the favour of you to offer them (with my Compliments) accordingly. With very great esteem, I remain Sir, Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: Cash Accounts, June 1769
From: Washington, George
To:

[June 1769]

Cash

June 4—
To Ditto [cash] of Mr Robt Adam in Papr 14.0.0 In 20 dbleLoons weig[hin]g 85.16.3
£99.16. 3

19—
To Ditto recd from Mr Geo: Thrift for Mr C. W—n
0.17. 6

To Ditto of Jno. Crook for 3 Barrls of Corn
1.10. 0

Contra

June 5—
By James Cleveland
22. 0. 0

12—
By Cash lent Thomas Bishop
5. 0. 0

19—
By 1 Bowl of Punch
0. 1. 6

By Wm Carlin’s Accts for self 1.10.2 for Miss Custis 1.1. Mastr Custis 1.13.6
4. 4. 8

By Wm Skilling
1. 0. 0

By Ditto pd Mr Harrison in discharge of a Suit agt him brot by Warren Dent
11.11. 0

By Pierce Bayly Sheriff
3. 1.10

20—
By Mr Mushet for a years Maryld Gazette
0.12. 6

By Ditto for an Acct of Mr Macraes
0.12.11

By John Hough Quit rents of Land
11.19. 6

21—
By Mr Ramsay Postage of Accts
2.15. 5

By Charity 20/
1. 0. 0

By Cash advancd Richd Leak
5. 0. 0


Title: To George Washington from Samuel Gist, 17 June 1769
From: Gist, Samuel
To: Washington, George

Sir
London June 17th 1769

I take this opportunity to acquaint you of the Death of Mr Capel Hanbury & as he chiefly Managed the Buiseness it will Probably be a means of some of their Friends changeing their Corrospondants here, I therefore beg leave to Offer you my best Services & to Assure you if it suits you to make Tryal of me that you shall be dealt with by the Strictest Rules of Justice & Honor.
There is very little Tobacco at present in this Market & what comes home this Year will sell well, I am very Respecy Sir Your most Obed. St

Saml Gist


Title: From George Washington to Burwell Bassett, 18 June 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Bassett, Burwell

Dear Sir,
Mount Vernon June the 18th 1769

As we have come to a Resolution to set of (if nothing unforeseen happens to prevent it) for the warmsprings about the 18th of next Month; I do, according to promise, give you notice thereof, & shoud be glad of your Company up with us, if you still entertain thought⟨s⟩ of trying the effects of those waters. You will have occasion to provide nothing, if I can be advisd of your Intention’s, before the Waggon comes down for my necessaries, so that I may provide accordingly.
We are all in the usual way, no alteration for better or worse in Patcy—The Association in this, & the two neighbouring Counties of Prince William & Loudoun is compleat; or near it, how it goes on in other places I know not, but hope to hear of the universality of it.
We all join in tendering our Loves to Mrs Bassett, yourself, Family & Mrs Dandridge & Betcy—& I am Dr Sir Yr Most Affecte Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: To George Washington from Thomas Hanson Marshall, 18 June 1769
From: Marshall, Thomas Hanson
To: Washington, George

Sir
Mary Land the 18th of June 1769

Having sum Company, and the Wind Blowing fresh, Prevented my Attending on you this day, as Intended; However immagen this may satisfy you, in Answar to your’s, by Mr Land Washington, Relative to my Lands in Virginia—I would Readily

make an Exchange, for Mr Alexanders Land on this side, Provided I could be made safe in Regard to the Conveyance, As his Wife is not of Suffiteant Age to Co[n]vey the same, And the Land Under a Strong Intale However that would be Easilly wiped of (heare) was Mrs Alexander of Suffiteant age, On youre Giveing me a suffiteant Indemnification in Regard to Mr Alexanders Land ⟨bein made⟩ over to me &ca when his Wife is Quallified ⟨so to⟩ do, And we can Agree On the Part of Land you will Take in Exchange, Shall be Ready to Comply; And as to the Ballance of my Land in Virginia, (when An oppertunity shall offer, that I can make a Conveneant Purchase heare,) Will Let you have the Remainder at 40/. Virginia Cury Pr Acer, Paid in English Gu[i]n[ea]s Pistoles—Silver Dolrs or Ither of them, at their Current Value, These Are the Terms, and no Other that will Induce me to Part with my Virginia Land, And as I Am not well Acquanted with the Situation thereof Should be Greatly oblige to you, for the Platt you Sent over to me sum time ago, by Mr Land Washington which will Take Care of And Returne safe. I am Sr Youre Most Hble servt

Tho. Han. Marshall


Title: Memorandum List of Tithables, 20 June 1769
From: Washington, George
To:

[c.20 June 1769]

A List of Tithables in Truro Parish & Fairfax County given in June 20th 1769.
George Washington
Lund Washington, Willm Skilling, Thos Davis, Michl Tracy. Ho. Servants: Breechy, Billy, Julius, Harry, Schomberg, Doll, Jenny, Betty, Moll, Sall, Phillis, Kate, Winney, Sue, Kitt, Giles. Home Plann: Joe, Jack, Ben, Jack, Arlington, Peter, Sarah, Frank, Lydia, Phoebe. Tradesmen: Will, Michael, Davy, Tom, George, Sam, Ned, Jupiter, Peter, Natt, George, Lewis. Doeg Run: Morris, Matt, Essex, Ben, Jupiter, Robin, Bob, Paul, Hannah, Sue,

Betty, Jone, Moll. Muddy hole: Thos Bishop, Will, Adam, Will, Sam, Morris, Kate, Nan, Sarah, Jenny. Mill: John Alton, Davy, Ned, Robin, Judy, Lucy, Jenny, Sarah. In all—74.

List of Tithables in Fairfax Parish 20 June 1769.
James Cleveland
Frederick, Ben, Natt, Will, Neptune, Abram, George, Walley, Schomberg, Ruth, Peg, Murria, Doll, Cloe, Nan, Daphne, Judy, Milly, Lucy.


Title: To George Washington from Edmund Pendleton, 3 July 1769
From: Pendleton, Edmund
To: Washington, George

Dr Sir
July 3d 1769.

I have at Last found Leisure to peruse & consider the papers you left with me for my Opinion on the nature of your Interest in your Fairfax Lands.
The deed of Settlement made by your Father on your brother Lawrence is long & complicated occasioned chiefly by an Intention to provide against the contingincie of the Prince Wm Lands which were the Subject of that deed & the Westmorland Lands Formerly Settled upon Augustine, From coming into the same

hands by the death of one of your brothers without Issue, but as I take it For granted that your brother Augt. chose to keep the Westmorld Lands, and not to give them up & take to the Prince William Lands as he had power to do upon the death of Lawrence without Issue, great part of that settlement is of little consequence, as to the Point you Now want to be Satisfied in.
The Prince William Lands then are limited to Lawrence in fee simple upon the Contingencies of his leaving Issue at his death: He takes notice of a daughter in his will & if she survived him, your fathers Will has no operation upon the estate, but it must go according to the Will of yr brother Lawrence by which you take an estate tail, wth a remainder to your brother Augt. in fee simple; For tho’ the words of the devising clause would give you a fee, yet by a Subsequent one he directs that if you, Saml, John & Charles or any of you, die without Lawful Issue such Land as was given you or any of you, should become the property of his brother Augustine & his heirs forever, which changes your & their Estates in all the Lands Claimed under his will into estates tail.
If indeed the daughter of Lawrence died before him, then as he left no Issue, The Land by the Settlement was to be subject to your fathers disposition and by his Will, you have a fee simple in the Prince William Lands, under the Remainder limited to you if Law[rence] died without Issue, since one of the contingencies upon wch you were to have a fee, has happened, that of your arriving to full age, altho’ you have no Issue. If this latter was the case, and you would choose to support yr fee simple, it might be proper to bring a Bill in Chancery to Perpetuate testimony to prove the fact of her dying before her father, as without testimony the presumption would be that she Survived, being named in his will; Nothing Further Occurs to me necessary to be mentioned. I am Sir Your mo. Obt humble Servt

Edmd Pendleton


Title: From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 13 July 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Boucher, Jonathan

Revd Sir,
Mount Vernon, July 13th 1769

As we have fixed upon the 27th Instt for our departure to the Frederick Springs, & Mrs Washington is desirous of seeing her Son before she leaves home, I am now to request the favour of you to permit him to come up for that purpose so soon as this Letter gets to hand (by Mr Stedlar, which I am told will be eight days after date).
Nothing new in this part of the Country worth a recital, and therefore I have only to add the Compls. of Mrs Washington and my own to yourself & Miss Boucher, and our Loves to Jacky. I am Revd Sir Yr Most Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 25 July 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Mount Vernon July 25: 1769.

Inclosd you will receive Invoices of Goods wanted for myself & Master Custis for this place and our Plantations on York River, as also for Miss Custis which I beg may be sent by Captn Johnstoun if the Orders gets to hand in time, if not, by any other Vessel bound to this River—But if there are any Articles containd in either of the respective Invoices (Paper only excepted) which are Taxd by Act of Parliament for the purpose of Raising a Revenue in America, it is my express desire and request, that they may not be sent, as I have very heartily enterd into an Association (Copies of which I make no doubt you have seen otherwise I shoud have Inclosed one) not to import any Article which now is, or hereafter shall be Taxed for this purpose until the said Act or Acts are repeal⟨d.⟩ I am therefore particular in mentioning this matter as I am fully determined to adhere religiously to it, and may perhaps have wrote for some things unwittingly which may be under these Circumstances.
Many of your Letters lying before me I shall take notice of such parts of them as require answering and shall begin first with Mr McLean because the trouble you have had with him on my Acct deserves my particular acknowledgments; but even here, I hope there is but little occasion to be explicit, as he will undoubtedly have paid the Money before this Letter can get to hand—True it is, the Draft arose in consequence of a Debt due to me from Colo. Robt Stewart, and as true it is, that I shoud have been unwilling to have done any thing that might have distressd that Gentleman; but surely Mr McLean will not pretend to say, that there was not time to have rectified the mistake he attributes the Non-payment to, between the hour of his Acceptance of the Bill and the date of your Letter of the first of March. Certain I am it woud give Colo. Stewart a good deal of uneasiness to think I had met with any obstacle in receiving the Money as I lent it to him five or Six years ago without Security

and without Interest, having nothing but the Word of a Gentleman of no Estate to repay it to me again.
I observe what you have mentioned in a Letter of the 12th of August, last year in respect to the payment of the Duties of Master Custis’s Tobo and not doubting the justice of the Remark, I have only to add, that I shall confide in your pursuing such measures as appears most conducive (under the change of Circumstances which are often happening) to his Interest.
By a Letter which I have just receivd from Mr Josh Valentine I am informd that 37 Hhds of Mastr Custis’s Tobo and all mine (amounting to 17 Hhds) are put on board Captn Peterson to your Address, on both which parcels you will please to Insure Ten pounds pr Hhd—I have no Tobo on this River, having made none for two or three years past and believe I never shall again—There is, in my opinion, a very great appearance of another short Crop of Tobo owing to several concurrant Causes, but more especially to a Drought which has been severely felt in most parts of the Country during the whole Month of June, part of May, and till the middle of this Instt.
I am obligd to you for your notice of Mr Magowan, who is now returnd & got fixed in a valuable living in the Provence of Maryland not far from this place—As it is probable I shall have occasion to draw upon you at the next October Genl Court for some part (perhaps four, five, or Six hund[re]d pounds) of Master Custis’s Money, I take this oppertunity of mentioning of it to you and am Gentn Yr Most Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 25 July 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

[Mount Vernon] July 25th 1769

Invoice of Goods to be sent (under the Restriction’s mentioned in the Letter annexd of this date) by Robt Cary Esqr. & Co. for the use of Geo: Washington—Potomack River—Virginia—viz.
1 Pint of Universal Balsam 4 Oz. Salt of Wormwood 2 Oz. Murcurius Dulcis 1 lb. Blistering Plaister 1 Quart Strong Cinnamen Water 1 Pint Spirit of Hartshorne 4 Oz. of Salvolatile 4 Ditto of Spirit of Lavender 1 lb. of Powder of Tinn ½ lb. Ipecacuana ½ lb. powder’d Jallop 4 Oz. of Rhubarb powdered 4 lb. of Brimstone in powder Two Shillings worth of black (Court or sticking) Plaister 25 lb. of Whiting 3 lb. of Fig Blew 4 Oz. of Cinnamon 4 Oz. of Cloves 4 Do of Nutmegs 4 Do of Mace 1 lb. of Allspice 1 Galn of best Sa[la]d Oil 6 ½ lb. Bottles of best Mustard 6 Papers best Ink powders

5 ps. brown Rolls @ 5d. 1 ps. best Oznabrigs 1 ps. Russia Drill 2 ps. Irish Linnen @ 1/ 4 ps. Do Do @ 2/ 60 Ells of as good white Russia Sheetg as can be bought for 2/ pr Yard 2 lb. of fine whited bro. thread 4 Oz. of 6d. Ditto 4 Oz. of 8d. Do 4 Oz. of 12d. Do 4 Oz. of 15d. Do 12 ps. fine tape ½ inch wide 1 Groce flat Shirt Buttons 6 fine Search bottoms 3 M Corkg Pins 3 M short wh[it]e Do 2 M Minikin Do 500 best Londn Needles—100 of wch to be No. 1 & the rest sorted from No. 6 to 10 2 Oz. black Sewing Silk 4 fine Ivory Combs 6 fine horn Do 1 dozn course Weavrs Do 4 Comb brushes 2 best kind of Cloaths Brushes 1 Sett of Weavers Brushes A pr of Womens best Jean Stays—pr Meas[ur]e A Black Russel Quilted Coat 1 ps. dark colourd 6/4 Duffield not to exceed 2/6 pr yard 5 dozn pr best pd Hose No. 5 4 doz. pr best Do Do No. 4
10 Groce best Corks 3 pr plain & Strong Steel Nut Crakers 1 best Bell Mettle Skillet—to hold 3 Qu[ar]ts 2 Do Do Do to hold 2 Do 1 large huntg Horn bound tight round w. sml brass Wire from one end to the other & secd in such a manr as to prevt the wires from slipg 50 best Sack Bags—Markd GW & N[umbere]d from 1 to 50 1 ps. Purple grounded Callicoe flowered with white, to be pretty & not to exceed 2/ pr yd 6 Middle-sized plated Stock Locks—@ 9/. 1 Knife Basket lined with Tinn 6 large & very strong Gardners Spades 10 lb. Sein Twine
The following Assortment of the most fashe kind of Queen’s Ware—to wit—6 dozn Shallw Plates 3 dozn Soup Do 1 dozn Desert Ditto 16 Oval Dishes of 4 Sizes 4 round Ditto of 2 Do 4 Scollopd Ditto of Do Do 4 Oval Baking Dishes 2 large Fish Drainers 2 large Tureens & Covers 4 Sauce Bowls with Stands & Covers 4 Sauce Boats 2 Sallid Dishes 6 fruit Dishes 12 fluted Egg Cups 2 Sugar Dishes & Ladles 2 Porringers with Stands 6 Potting Pots of Difft Sizes 12 leaves or Shells for Pickles 1 Pottle Mug 2 Quart Do 4 pint Ditto 4 ½ pint Do A sett of breakfast Cups, Sawcers and Coffee Cups of a large kind (1 dozn each) with wash bowl Tea Pot &ca of the above As hansome a fowling piece 3½ feet in the Barl as can be bot for 3 Guins.

Go: Washington


Title: To George Washington from John Posey, 25 July 1769 [letter not found]
From: Posey, John
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from John Posey, 25 July 1769. On 26 July GW wrote to Posey: “In answer to your Letter of yesterday. . . .”


Title: To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 26 July 1769
From: Capel & Osgood Hanbury
To: Washington, George

Esteem’d Friend
London July 26th 1769

This serves to advise the arrival of the Hanbury Capt. James Esten, after a favor⟨abl⟩e passage of about 5 Weeks, by him we observe we are favor’d with 8 Hhds Tobacco from our friend J.P. Custis, in the Sale of which our best endeavors shall be exerted for his Interest—The Ship came up to her Moorings yesterday, and we are preparing to Land her Cargo the begining of the next Week—The prices of Tobacco are much the same as for some time past, that is from 3¼ to 4d. ⅌ lb., if any alteration it is rather for the worse, but we hope to keep it up and to be able to render agreable Sales.
It gives us concern to have to mention the Death of our C. H., As the business will be continued as usual, We shall be glad of a continuance of thy friendship, and Correspondence and remain with great regard Thy assured Friends

Capel & Osgood Hanbury


Title: From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 27 July 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Boucher, Jonathan

Revd Sir
Mount Vernon July 27th 1769

By Jackey Custis you will receive the amount of your Acct against him, to wit £42.1.11, for which Sum you will please to send me a receipt (when oppertunity offers) as vouchers are necessary to pass my Accts by.
I am unable to say whether your charge for his Horses, is high or low, that depending wholely upon the manner of their keeping, of which you only can judge—A horse not in high feeding Winter and Summer, nor constantly used, may be kept in very good order with five or Six Barls of Corn & 1000 Wt of Fodder, or less a year; but you will be pleas’d for the time to come, to charge for this Article, & for his Schooling, proportionate to the expence, & your care & trouble in his Education, & I shall pay it with chearfulness, as I am more anxious for his Improvement than a little paltry saving and am glad to find that his deligence has met with a spur from the alteration of your management of him; and am pleasd likewise to hear, that his new Servant is like to answer his purpose better than the old.
I have to request the favour of you to get for Jack a pair of Silver Shoe & knee buckles of the pattern he chooses, as also a

pair of Silver Spurs from some of the Silver Smiths in Fredericksburg; and the cost of them shall be paid so soon as I am inform’d thereof—I have further to desire, at the request of Mrs Washington, that you will restrain Jacky from going too frequently into the Water, or staying too long in it when there; as she is apprehensive of bad consequences from either.
We shoud have been glad to have met with Miss Boucher at the Springs, for which place we shall not set of till Monday. Our Compliments are offered to her & yourself and I am Revd Sir Yr Most Obedt Servt

Go: Washington


Title: Cash Accounts, 31 July–17 September 1769
From: Washington, George
To:

[31 July–17 September 1769]

Cash

Augt 21st—
To Cash recd of Bryan Bruin for Rent of my Lott in Winchester
[Blank]

Do—
To Ditto Recd of the Revd Mr Sebastian on Acct of Intt due J.P. Custis
£12. 0. 0

Contra

By Cash expended in my Trip to the Springs [Pa. Currency]

July 31—
For Lin[e]n &ca for a Cot for Miss Custis
0.15. 0

Dinr &ca at Wm Car Lains
0. 7. 9

Augt 1—
Lodging &ca at Mr Chs Wests
0.14. 4 1/2

Dinner &ca at Snickers
0. 7. 0

5—
Ditto &ca on Opeckon
0. 6. 9

6—
Lodging &ca at [Joshua] Hedges
0.11. 0

Dinner &ca at Herefords
0. 8. 0

Repairg Ho[use] & buildg an Arbr
0.15. 0

Butchers Meat
4.15.11

Poultry, Eggs, & Milk
1. 0. 9

Butter 34 1/2 lbs.
1. 6. 5 1/2

Roots, Greens, & Fruit
1.18. 7 1/2

Baker, for Bread & Flour
4. 4. 8

Wood
0. 6. 8

Washing
1.18. 1 1/2

Smith
0. 3. 1 1/2

Paid Bathkeeper
1.10. 0

Oats & Pasturage for Horss.
  8. 4. 1

26. 3. 5

deduct 25 prCt
  5. 4. 8

[Va. Currency]
20.18. 9

Septr 9—
By Dinner, Oats &ca at Morgans
0. 8. 6

Lodging &ca at Hedges
0.12. 0

10—
Feeding &ca on the Road
0. 8. 6

11—
Oats &ca undr the Ridge at Snickrs
0. 8. 9

Lodging &ca at Chas Wests
0.14. 6

Dinner &ca at Carr Lains
0. 6. 7 1/2

By the Servts Expencs. with the Wagn
0. 6. 9

By Waggonage pr Settlemt with Vale Crawford £9.0.0

£27.14. 3

By Sundry other Sums expended at the Springs viz. In Charity at Sundry times
6. 0. 9

Augt 13—
Lent Captn Wm Crawford
4. 6. 0

15—
6 pr Worsted Hose
1. 1. 6

2 lb. Seneca Snake Root
0. 3. 0

21—
A Horse of Bryan Bruin
9. 0. 0

A Whetstone for J. P. Custis
0. 1. 0

25½ lb. of Cheese @ 6d.
0.12. 9

25—
3 dressd Deer skins 1 for J.P.C.
1. 4. 0

1 Yard Gauze
0. 4. 0

Septr 1—
6 Bowls @ 6/—Servts 2/
0. 8. 0

4—
Hampshire Sheriff for Land Tax
0. 5. 0

8—
A Horse Sadle & Bridle of Mr Meaze 20 Pistoles
21.10. 0


Title: From George Washington to John Armstrong, 24 August 1769
From: Washington, George
To: Armstrong, John

Dear Sir
Frederick Springs August 24th 1769.

With particular pleasure I acknowledge the receipt of your favour by Mr Fulton—it affords me a fresh Instance of your

friendly regard, for which I shall always retain a lively remembrance—The Letters you speak of as wrote to me by way of Winchester &ca never came to hand; from Captn Crawford it was, that I receivd the Acct of your obliging Letter to Mr Tilghman, and of the good effect it was like to produce; tho’ for a certainty, I have not yet heard, whether the Land I applied for, has escapd the danger of a Lottery Scheme, but have reasons to hope, it possibly might.
The report of three Indians being killd on the South Branch of Potomack is strictly true, but the manner in which it happen’d, is variously related, and none of them favourable to the authors of the Mischeif—It seems this Murder (for it deserves no other name) was committed on slight provocation, upon three Indians of the Mingo Tribe; who had been to War, & as it is imagind, had also been defeated (that is the party to which they belonged) and being dispersed, took their rout through the Inhabitants for greater security when they met with the Fate I have just now mentioned—It is lucky however that there were no more than three in as much as none escapd to carry the Intelligence; and we, in consequence, may represent it in as favourable a light, as the thing will admit of, having the knowledge of it confined to our selves.
Endeavours will be used to bring the perpetrators of this Act of Villainy to Justice, but what success may attend the attempt, I will not under take to say, however certain it is, that practices of this kind ought to be suppressd by every possible means to prevent the evils that otherwise must follow—The further Acct of the Militia going out is nothing more, I believe, than a vague & Idle story; as it also is of the Redstone People threatning revenge; by what I can learn (and I have seen two or three from that settlement) they wish for nothing more than Peace & quietness, and are now, so well assured of the false alarm they too easily gave into, that most of them are carrying out their Families again.
The causes which you have Suggested for the dissatisfaction of the Indians, & their rude behaviour on several occasions, I have before heard assigned; but hope they will not suffer their discontent to lead them into Acts of open Hostility, when I consider that they have not the French to aid and abet them as formerly, and that they are in a manner dependant on us.

Mrs Fairfax receivd so little benefit from Springs the last time she was here, that she hath entirely renouncd them—The Colo., to whom I have presented your Compliments desires his may be offered in return, & when I see Doctr Mercer I shall inform him that he is still in your remembrance—with very great regard I remain Dr Sir, Yr Most Obedt Affecte Servt

G. Washington.