Title: Appendix C. List of Artisans and Household Slaves in the Estate, c.1759
From: Washington, George
To:

[c.1759]

Tradesmen belonging to the Estate

Names
Age

Occupation

Peter
39
}
Carpenter’s

Ned
48

Morrice
29 W

Ned
32

Jack Palmer
28

Isaac
28 W

Mike
22

Tom
30 W

Jack a boy
15

Squire
21
}
Shirtmaker’s

Scomberg
42 W

Crispin
50

Tanner’s

Servants in & abt the House

Names
Age
business

W Breechy
24
Waiter

W Mulatto Jack
41
Jobber

Julius
10
Waits on Jacky Custis

Moll
19
Waits on Ditto & Miss Patcy Sews &ca for them

W Doll
38
Cook

W Beck
23
Scullion

Mima
36
Ironer

W Jenny
39
Washer

W Sally
15
Mrs Washington’s Maid

Rose
12
Miss Patcy’s Maid

Phillis
25
Spinner

W Betty
21
Seamstress


Title: Appendix D. Inventory of the Books in the Estate, c.1759
From: Washington, George
To:

[c.1759]

There are two undated lists of books in the Custis Papers (ViHi) in GW’s hand. GW made the first list before 1761 and the second not until 1763 or 1764. The first of these, hereafter referred to as list 1, is printed here; the second, List 2, will be dealt with in volume 7 of this series of the Papers. In both lists, GW gives an abbreviated title of each publication and, occasionally, the last name of its author. He made List 1 at some time not long after his marriage to Martha Custis in January 1759. It is GW’s listing of the books belonging to the deceased Daniel Parke Custis, nearly all of them inherited from his father John Custis. Most of the Custis books were at the house where old John Custis lived in Williamsburg, and GW probably made his list there. The appraisers valued the books at the White House in New Kent County at £4 and those at Williamsburg at £25 (doc. III-A–1, entries 41 and 177).
   In 1782, shortly after John Parke Custis’s death, Bartholomew Dandridge, the executor of young Custis’s estate, wrote to GW in New York: “I observe you kept Col. [Daniel Parke] Custis’s Books for his Son [John Parke Custis] and should be glad to know whether you or my Sister [Martha Custis Washington] chuse that Mr [John Parke] Custis’s Books should be kept” (20 Mar. 1782, DLC:GW). GW replied on 20 April: “I had no particular reason for keeping & handing down to his Son the Books of the late Colo. [Daniel Parke] Custis, saving that I thought it would be taking the advantage of a low appraisement to make them my own property at it; and that to sell them was not an object, as they might be useful to him [young Custis]” (ibid.). No other appraisal of Daniel Parke Custis’s books has been found except the one in the combined county inventory (doc. III-A–1).
The second list, List 2, is a list of the books at Mount Vernon, both those owned by GW and those inherited by young John Parke Custis from his father. GW made this list after receiving from England in the summer of 1763 Tobias Smollett’s History of England in eleven volumes and four volumes of Dodsley’s Annual Register and before receiving in 1765 twelve numbers of the Country Magazine and several other books the next year. In the first list he groups book titles under the headings “Folio,” “Quarto,” “large Octavo,” and “Broken Setts”; he lists the books in List 2 in more or less the same order but without the headings. For the first three pages of List 2, he also inserts after each title the initials JC or GW to indicate whether it was owned by John Parke Custis or himself.

The different book titles in List 1 number more than two hundred and fifty, and GW notes that there was a total of eighty unnamed “Latin Books” besides. All but about twenty of the abbreviated titles in List 1 also appear in List 2, often in slightly altered form. In addition, GW has in List 2 about ninety additional titles of works, at least two-thirds of which belonged to himself. None of these appear in List 1. See note 59, below.
In printing List 1, we have added in brackets after most of GW’s entries an expanded but usually still shortened title of a pre–1755 edition (chosen usually from the British Museum catalogue) of the specific work to which GW’s short title may refer. In several instances, the identifying of a publication from the short title was made easier by an entry in still another list of the Custis books (List 3), one made for the inventory of John Parke Custis’s estate in 1782 and including most of the titles in List 1 as well as additional ones (Fairfax County [Va.] Will Book D–1, pp. 278–85). In all, the Custis library probably included at Daniel Parke Custis’s death in 1757 nearly three hundred titles in upwards of five hundred volumes.
In the notes, List 1 refers to the one GW made in 1759–61, List 2 to the one he made probably in 1764, and List 3 to the one Lund Washington made for the inventory of John Parke Custis’s estate in 1782. Most of the titles have been supplied in brackets with assurance, but a few are only guesses. Some of the titles that have not been identified, and perhaps one or two that have, are undoubtedly binders’ titles.

Folio
Catesby’s Natural History—2 vols. [Mark Catesby. The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. 2 volumes. London, 1731–43.]
English Atlas by Phil Lea—1 vol.
Acts of Assembly 1727–1 vol. [Acts of assembly passed in the colony of Virginia from 1662 to 1715. Volume 1. London, 1727.]
Salmons History of Plants—1 vol. [William Salmon. Botanologia. The English herbal or history of plants. London, 1710.]
Fullers History of the Engh Worthes—1 vol. [Thomas Fuller. The history of the worthies of England. London, 1662.]
Aesop’s Fables by Sir Rogr LeEstrange—1 vol. [Sir Roger L’Estrange. The fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists. London, 1738.]
Country Justice—1 vol. [Michael Dalton. The country justice: containing the practice, duty and power of the justices of the peace. London, 1746.]
Bonnets Guide to the Pracl Phyn—1 vol. [Théophile Bonet. A guide to the practical physician: shewing, from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and safest way of curing all diseases. London, 1686.]
Monsr de Thevenot travels into the Levant—1 vol. [Jean de Thévenot. The travels of Monsieur de Thévenot into the Levant. In three parts, viz. I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East Indies. London, 1687.]

Browns Travels—a Brief Acct—1 vol. [Edward Browne. A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli. London, 1673.]
Cowley’s Works—1 vol. [Abraham Cowley. Works: consisting of those which were formerly printed, and those which he design’d for the press. London, 1700.]
Cambden’s history of Q: Elizh—1 vol. [William Camden. The history or annals of England, during the whole life and reign of Elizabeth. London, 1706.]
Brown’s Enquiries into many vulgar Error’s Religion—1 vol. [Sir Thomas Browne. Pseudodoxia epidemica. London, 1646.]

Quarto
Boerhave’s Chimistry—1 vol. [Herman Boerhaave. A new method of chemistry. Translated by Peter Shaw. London, 1727.]
Brady’s Sermons—1 vol. [Nicholas Brady the Elder. Select sermons on practical subjects, preach’d before the Queen, and on other occasions. London, 1713.]
Pomet of Drugs—1 vol. [Pierre Pomet. A compleat history of druggs . . . divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral; with their use in physick, chymistry and pharmacy. London, 1712.]
Play’s by Sundry hands—1 volume.
Do—2 volumes.
Merchts Magazine—1 vol. [Edward Hatton. The merchant’s magazine: or, tradesman’s treasury. London, 1734.]
Gentns Journal or Monthly Miscel.—1 vol. [The gentleman’s journal; or, the monthly miscellany. By way of letter to a gentleman in the country. Consisting of news, history, philosophy, poetry, musick, translation, etc. Volume 1. Edited by Pierre-Antoine Motteux. London, 1692.]
Harvey’s Principles of Philoy—1 vol. [Gideon Harvey. Archelogia philosophica nova; or new principles of philosophy. London, 1663.]
Renownd plays—1 volume. [Nathaniel Lee. The dramatick works of Mr. Nathaniel Lee. In three volumes. London, 1722.]

large Octavo
Earl of Clarendons Histy Rebn—7 vols. [Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon. The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England begun in the year 1641. 3 volumes. Oxford, 1732.]
Theory of the Earth—2 vols. [Thomas Burnet. The theory of the earth; containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things. 2 volumes. London, 1684.]
Gulliver’s Travels—2 vols. [Jonathan Swift. Travels into several remote nations of the world. By Captain Lemuel Gulliver. 2 volumes. London, 1727.]
Etchards Roman History—2 vols. [Laurence Eachard. The Roman history, from the building of the city . . . to the removal of the imperial seat by Constantine the Great. 2 volumes. London, 1699, 1698.]
Plutarchs Lives—5 vols. [Plutarch’s lives, translated from the Greek by several hands, to which is prefixt the life of Plutarch. 5 volumes. London, 1711.]
⟨R⟩evolution Politicks—1 vol. [Gilbert Burnet. Revolution politicks: being a compleat

collection of all the reports, lyes, and stories, which were the fore-runners of the great revolution in 1688. London, 1733.]
Barclay’s Apology for Quakers—1 vol. [Robert Barclay. An apology for the true Christian divinity, as the same is held forth . . . by the people called . . . Quakers. London, 1736.]
Kings State of the Protests. of Ired—1 vol. [William King, archbishop of Dublin. The state of the Protestants in Ireland under the late King James’s government. London, 1692.]
Speculatist—1 vol. [Matthew Concanen. The speculatist: a collection of letters and essays, moral and political, serious and humorous. London, 1732.]
Hoadly on the Sacrament—1 vol. [Bishop Benjamin Hoadly. A plain account of the nature and end of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. London, 1751.]
Wiseman’s Surgery—2 vols. [Richard Wiseman. Eight chirurgical treatises. 2 volumes. London, 1734.]
Drake’s Anatomy. [James Drake. Anthropologia nova; or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies. 2 volumes. London, 1707.]
Dampiers Voyages—4 vols. [William Dampier. A collection of voyages. 4 volumes. London, 1729.]
Shaw’s Practice of Physick—2 vols. [Peter Shaw. A new practice of physic . . . formed on the Model of Dr Sydenham. 2 volumes. London, 1728.]
Mandevilles Dialogues Hysterick Diseases &ca—1 vol. [Bernard de Mandeville. A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick diseases. London, 1730.]
Cromwells Life—1 vol. [John Banks. A short critical review of the political life of Oliver Cromwell. London, 1739.]
Bulstrodes Miscellanies—1 vol. [Sir Richard Bulstrode. Miscellaneous essays . . . with the life and conversion of St. Mary Magdelan . . . also . . . of St. Paul. London, 1715.]
Annals of K. George—1716–1 vol. [The annals of King George. Year the first (-sixth) containing not only the affairs of Great Britain, but the general history of Europe during that time. 6 volumes. London, 1716–21. Volume 1, 1716.]
Sick Man Visited—Prayers &c.—1 vol. [Nathaniel Spinckes. The sick man visited; and furnished with instructions, meditations, and prayers, suitable to his condition. London, 1712.]
Excise Bill—1 vol. [The excise-bill versify’d. London, 1733.]
Wagstaffs Miscellanies—1 vol. [William Wagstaffe. Miscellaneous works of Dr. William Wagstaffe. London, 1726.]
No Excise—2 volumes.
Blairs Sermons—3 vols. some of these are in New Kent—[James Blair. Our Saviour’s divine sermon on the mount . . . explained. 5 volumes. London, 1722, 1723.]
Dryden’s Juvenal—1 vol. [The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English verse. By Mr. Dryden, and several other eminent hands. London, 1693.]
Dryden’s &ca Miscellanies—3 vols. [John Dryden. Miscellany poems. 6 volumes. London, 1716.]

W. Salmon’s Family Dictionary—1 vol. [William Salmon. The family-dictionary; or, household companion. London, 1710.]
Salmon’s Dispensatory—1 vol. [William Salmon. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or the new London dispensatory. London, 1678.]
Do English Physician—1 vol. [William Salmon. Seplasium. The compleat English physician: or, the druggists’ shop opened. London, 1693.]
Do Synopsis Medicinae—1 vol. [William Salmon. Synopsis medicinae. A compendium of physick, chirurgery, and anatomy. London, 1679–81.]
Do Praxis Medica—1 vol. [Praxis medica. The practice of physick: or, Dr Sydenham’s processus integri. Translated by William Salmon. London, 1707.]
Jones of Opium—1 vol. [John Jones. The mysteries of opium reveal’d. London, 1701.]
Cockburn on Fluxes—1 vol. [William Cockburn. The nature and cure of fluxes. London, 1724.]
Debates in Parliament from 1660—to 1741–12 vols. [A collection of the Parliamentary debates in England from the year MDCLXVII to the present time. 12 volumes. London, 1739–43.]
Josephus Epitomisd—1 vol. [Flavius Josephus. Works; epitomiz’d from the Greek original. London, 1700.]
Oldhams Works—1 vol. [John Oldham. The works of Mr. John Oldham. Together with his remains. London, 1698.]
Louis le: Compte’s Travels thro. China—1 vol. [Louis Daniel Le Comte. Memoirs and remarks . . . made in above ten years travel through the empire of China. London, 1738.]
Letters of Wit & Politicks—1 vol. [Letters of wit, politicks, and morality. Written originally in Italian by the famous Cardinal Bentivoglio; in Spanish by Signor Don Guevara; in Latin by St. Jerome . . . in French by Father Rapin, &c. Also select letters. Edited by Abel Boyer. London, 1701.]
Chamberlayne on the Old Testt—1 vol. [The arguments of the books and chapters of the Old and New Testament, with practical observations. Written originally in French by the Rev. Mr. Ostervald, professor. Translated by John Chamberlayne. London, 1737.]
Turner on the Skin—1 vol. [Daniel Turner. De morbis cutaneis. A treatise of diseases incident to the skin. London, 1736.]
Fuller’s Physical Prescriptn—1 vol. [Thomas Fuller. Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: or a body of medicines, containing a thousand select prescriptions. London, 1740.]
Etmullerus practice of Phyk abridgd—⟨1⟩ vol. [Michael Etmueller. Etmullerus abridg’d: or, a compleat system of the theory and practice of physic. London, 1699.]
Lobb on the Stone & Gout—1 vol. [Theophilus Lobb. A treatise on dissolvents of the stone; and on curing the stone and gout by aliment. London, 1739.]
Robinson Crusoe—3 vols. [Daniel Defoe. The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 3 volumes. London, 1719–20.]
Taylor’s Holy living—1 vol. [Jeremy Taylor. The rule and exercises of holy living. London, 1739.]

Historia Anglo Scotica—1 vol. [James Drake. Historia Anglo-Scotia: or an impartial history of all that happen’d between the kings and kingdoms of England and Scotland from the beginning of the reign of William the Conqueror to the reign of Queen Elizabeth. London, 1703.]
Waller’s Poems—1 vol. [Edmund Waller. Poems, &c. written upon several occasions and to several persons. London, 1722.]
Paxton’s Essays on the Diseases of the Human Body—1 vol. [Peter Paxton. An essay concerning the body of man, wherein its . . . diseases are consider’d, and the operations of medicines observ’d. London, 1701.]
Duty of Man—1 vol. [Richard Allestree. The whole duty of man, laid down in a plain and familiar way. London, 1727.]
Hippocratis Aphorisms—1 vol. [The aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated by J. Sprengell. London, 1735.]
White on Fevers—1 vol. [J. White. De recta sanguinis missione; or new and exact observations of fevers. London, 1712.]
Baglivus practice of Physick—1 vol. [Georgius Baglivus. The practice of physick, reduc’d to the ancient way of observations. London, 1704.]
Strother on Fevers—1 vol. [Edward Strother. Criticon febrium: or, a critical essay on fevers. London, 1718.]
Cheyne of Health & long life—1 vol. [George Cheyne. An essay of health and long life. London, 1724.]
Wainerights Acct of Non-naturals—1 vol. [Jeremiah Wainewright. A mechanical account of the non-naturals: being a brief explication of the changes made in humane bodies, by air, diet, &c. London, 1707.]
Willis’s practice of Physick—1 vol. [Thomas Willis. The London practice of physick. London, 1685.]
Lives of the 12 Ceasars—1 vol. [Suetonius. The lives of the twelve Caesars. London, 1692.]
Bates Dispensatory—1 vol. [George Bate. Pharmacopoeia bateana: or, Bate’s dispensatory. Translated by William Salmon. London, 1720.]
Bacon’s Essays—1 vol. [Francis Bacon. The essays.]
The Crafts & frauds of Physick exposd by R. Pitt—1 vol. [Robert Pitt. The craft and frauds of physick expos’d. London, 1703.]
Decay of Piety—1 vol. [Richard Allestree. The causes of the decay of Christian piety. London, 1675.]
Revolutions of Sweden—1 vol. [René-Aubert de Vertot D’Aubeuf. The history of the revolution in Sweden. Translated by J. Mitchel. London, 1729.]
The Desolution of France Demond—1 vol. [De Souligné. The desolution of France demonstrated. London, 1697.]
Wotton on Ancient & Modn Learng—⟨1⟩ vol. [William Wotton. Reflections upon ancient and modern learning. London, 1705.]
Du Mont’s Voyage to the Levant—1 vol. [Jean Dumont, Baron de Carlscroon. A new voyage to the Levant: containing an account of the most remarkable curiosities in Germany, France, Italy, Malta, and Turkey. London, 1705.]
   Cockburns cure of a Gonorrhaea—1 vol. [William Cockburn. The Symptoms, Nature, Cause, and Cure of a Gonorrhoea. London, 1713.]

The History of the Buckners of Ama—1 vol. [Basil Ringrose. The history of the bucaniers of America. London, 1699.]
Dover’s Legacy & Cam on the Venereal Disease—1 vol. [Thomas Dover. The ancient physician’s legacy to his country. London, 1732. Joseph Cam. A short account of the venereal disease. London, 1719.]
The Gentleman Instructed—1 vol. [William Darrell. The gentleman instructed, in the conduct of a virtuous and happy life. London, 1709.]
Turner’s Acct of Gleets—1 vol. [Daniel Turner. A discourse concerning gleets, their cause and cure. London, 1729.]
Mauriceau on Midwifry—1 vol. [François Mauriceau. The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. Translated by H. Chamberlen. London, 1673.]
Coles English Dictionary—1 vol. [Elisha Coles. An English dictionary. London, 1732.]
A Dictionary of Husbandry Gardening &ca—1 vol. [Dictionarium rusticum, urbanicum & botanicum: or, dictionary of husbandry, gardening, trade, commerce, and all sorts of country affairs. London 1717.]
Seneca’s Morals—1 vol. [Seneca’s morals by way of abstract. To which is added, a discourse, under the title of an after-thought. By Sir Roger L’Estrange. London, 1705.]
Adam & Eve—1 vol. [Edward Ward. Adam and Eve stript of their furbelows. London, 1714.]
Memoirs of Lord Hollis—1 vol. [Denzil, Baron Holles. Memoires . . . from 1641 to 1648. London, 1699.]
The Art of Contentt & Governt of the Tong. Gentn Calling, & Ladies Ditto—4 vols. [Richard Allestree. Art of contentment. Oxford, 1719. The government of the tongue. Oxford, 1721. The gentleman’s calling. London, 1717. The ladies calling. Oxford, 1720.]
Fashions & Entertainmt—1 volume. [Possibly The modes: or, a conversation upon the fashions of all nations. Made English from the French of l’abbé Bellegarde. With an essay upon entertainments. By a person of quality (London, 1735).]
Burlesque upon Ovids Epistles—1 vol. [Alexander Radcliffe. Ovid travestie, a burlesque upon Ovid’s epistles. London, 1705.]
Collier’s view of the English Stage—1 vol. [Jeremy Collier. A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage. London, 1698.]
Collier answerd. [John Dennis. The usefullness of the stage . . . occasioned by the late book, written by Jeremy Collier. London, 1698.]
Milton’s defence of the People of Engd—1 vol. [John Milton. A defense of the people of England. London, 1695.]
Welwoods Memoirs of the most Material Transactions in England—1 vol. [James Welwood. Memoirs of the most material transactions in England, for the last 100 years, preceding the revolution in 1688. London, 1702.]
Ovids Epistles—1 vol. [Ovid’s epistles, translated by several hands. London, 1720.]
Titus Lucretius Carus of Epicurean Phi.—1 vol. [Titus Lucretius Carus, his six books of Epicurean philosophy. Translated into English verse by Thomas Creech. London, 1699.]
Tate’s Poems—1 vol. [Nahum Tate. Poems. London, 1677.]
Medecina Flagelletta or the Doctr Scarified—1 vol. [Medicina flagellata; or, the doctor scarify’d. London, 1721.]

The Tattler—4 vols. [Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison et al. The tatler. 4 volumes. London, 1723.]
Guardians—2 vols. [Sir Richard Steele & Joseph Addison, et al. The guardian. 2 volumes. London, 1726.]
Plutarch’s Morals—5 vols. [Plutarch’s morals. 5 volumes. London, 1718.]
Compleat Tradesman—2 vols. [Daniel Defoe. The complete English tradesmen. 2 volumes. London, 1732.]
Cato’s Letters—4 vols. [John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. Cato’s letters: or, essays on liberty, civil and religious, and other important subjects. 4 volumes. London, 1733.]
Craftsman—14 vols. [The craftsman: being a critique on the times. Edited by Nicholas Amhurst et al. 14 volumes. London, 1731–37.]
Turkish Spy—9 volumes. [Giovanni Paolo Marana. Letters writ by a Turkish spy. 9 volumes. London, 1748.]
Don Quixot—4 vols. [Cervantes. The history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha.]
Independent Whig—3 vols. [John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. The independent whig. 3 volumes. London, 1742–43.]
Pooles English Parnassus—1 vol. [Joshua Poole. The English parnassus, or a helpe to English poesie. London, 1677.]
State Poems—1 volume.
Martials Epigrams—1 vol. [Marcus Valerius Martialis. Epigrams of Martial, Englished. London, 1695.]
Amour’s of the French Kings—1 vol. [Claude Vanel. The royal mistresses of France, or the secret history of the amours of all the French kings. London, 1695.]
Pliny’s Panegyrick—1 vol. [Pliny’s panegyrick. Translated by George Smith. London, 1730.]
Miscellanies Poems—1 volume.
Mrs Behns Poems—1 vol. [Aphra Behn. Poems upon several occasions, with a voyage to the island of love. London, 1697.]
Gunpowder Treason & discovery—1 vol. [The gunpowder-treason: with a discourse of the manner of its discovery. London, 1679.]
Creech’s Horris—1 vol. [The odes, satyrs, and epistles of Horace. Translated by Thomas Creech. London, 1737.]
Rapin on Aristotles Poesie—1 vol. [René Rapin. Monsieur Rapin’s reflections on Aristotle’s treatise of poesie. Translated by Thomas Rymer. London, 1694.]
Goulds Poem’s—1 vol. [Robert Gould. Poems chiefly consisting of satyres and satyrical epistles. London, 1689.]
Quintilian’s Declamation’s—1 vol. [The declamations of Quintilian. London, 1686.]
The Governmt of a Wife by Don Francisco Manuel—1 vol. [Francisco Manuel de Mello. The government of a wife; or, wholesom and pleasant advice for married men. Translated by John Stevens. London, 1697.]
Lady’s Travels into Spain—1 vol. [Marie Catherine La Mothe, countess d’Aulnoy. The ingenious and diverting letters of the lady’s travels into Spain. London, 1706.]

Free Thinker—3 vols. [The free-thinker: or, essays of wit and humour. Edited by Ambrose Philips. 3 volumes. London, 1739.]
A present for the Ladies an Historical of the female Sex—1 vol. [Nahum Tate. A present for the ladies: being an historical account of several illustrious persons of the female sex. London, 1693.]
Milbourne’s Notes on Dryden’s Virgil—1 vol. [Luke Milbourne. Notes on Dryden’s Virgil. London, 1698.]
Ramble—⟨1⟩ vol. [Alexander Radcliffe. The Ramble. 1682.]
Thoughts in Sad times—⟨1⟩ vol. [Thomas Fuller. Good thoughts in bad times. 1647.]
Firman’s Life—1 vol. [Stephen Nye. The life of Mr. Thomas Firmin . . . with an account of his religion, and of the present state of the Unitarian controversy. London, 1698.]
Bishop of Baths Sermon’s—1 vol. [Richard Kidder, bishop of Bath and Wells. Twelve sermons preach’d upon several occasions. London, 1697.]
Works of King Chs the Ist—1 vol. [The works of King Charles I., both civil and sacred. London, 1735.]
The Flower piece Colln of Poems—2 vols. [The flower-piece: a collection of miscellany poems. By several hands. 1 volume. London, 1731.]
Milton’s Paradise lost—1 vol. [John Milton. Paradise lost.]
Ditto regaind—1 vol. [John Milton. Paradise regain’d. London, 1721.]
Ditto Poems—1 vol. [John Milton. Poems, &c. upon several occasions. London, 1673.]
Select Novels—1 vol. [Walter Pope. Select novels from the Spanish of Cervantes, and the Italian of Petrarch. London, 1694.]
Compleat Houswife—1 vol. [Eliza Smith. The compleat housewife; or, accomplish’d gentlewoman’s companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery. London, 1734.]
Gazetteer or News Man’s Interp.—1 vol. [Laurence Eachard. The gazetteer’s, or, news-man’s interpreter. London, 1751.]
Chamberlayne’s State of Engd—1 vol. [Edward Chamberlayne. Angliæ Notitia, or the present state of England. London, 1704.]
Religio Medica—1 vol. [Sir Thomas Browne. Religio medici: or, the Christian religion, as professed by a physician; freed from priest-craft and the jargon of schools. London, 1736.]
Freeholder—1 vol. [Joseph Addison. The free-holder, or, political essays. London, 1739.]
Banyar’s Hospital Dispeny—1 vol. [Henry Banyer. Pharmacopœia pauperum: or, the hospital dispensatory. London, 1721.]
Intriegues of the Priests & Nuns—1 vol. [A compleat history of the intrigues of priests and nuns. London, 1732.]
Locke on Education—1 vol. [John Locke. Some thoughts concerning education. London, 1705.]
Dispensary—1 vol. [Sir Samuel Garth. The dispensary. A poem. In six canto’s. London, 1709.]
Winters Evening Conference—1 vol. [John Goodman. A winter evening conference between neighbours. London, 1720.]

Polygraphice—1 vol. [William Salmon. Polygraphice: or the arts of drawing, engraving, etc. London, 1681.]
Human Judgt—1 vol. [J. Lyons. The infallibility of humane judgment. London, 1721.]
Poetical History—1 vol. [Pierre Gautruche. The poetical histories, being a compleat collection of all the stories necessary for a perfect understanding of the Greek and Latine poets. Translated by Marius D’Assigny. London, 1701.]
Tully’s Offices—1 vol. [Cicero. Tully’s offices. Translated by Thomas Cockman. London, 1714.]
Hudibras—1 vol. [Samuel Butler. Hudibras. London, 1716.]
Keills Anatoy of the Humn Body 12ves—1 vol. [James Keill. The anatomy of the humane body abridged. London, 1731.]
Atalantis—4 vols. [Mary de la Rivière Manley. Secret memoires and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes. From the New Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean. 4 volumes. London, 1720.]
Butlers Posts Works—3 vols. [Samuel Butler. Posthumous works in prose and verse. 3 volumes. London, 1715, 1717.]
M: of the Transatn in Savoy—1 vol. [Memoires of the transactions in Savoy during this war. Translated by John Savage. London, 1697.]
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State Poems—1 vol. No. 1 wantg. [State-Poems: continued from the time of O. Cromwel to this Present year 1697. 2 volumes. London, 1697.]
Rochester’s Letters—1 vol. 1st vols. wantg. [John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Familiar letters, written by . . . John late Earl of Rochester, and several other persons. Edited by Thomas Brown. London, 1697.]
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Trials at the Old Baily—3 vols. 2 vol. wanting. [A compleat collection of remarkable tryals . . . in the Old Baily. 4 volumes. London, 1718–21.]
Swifts Miscellanies—4 vols. No. 2 & 5 wanting. [Jonathan Swift. Miscellanies. 6 volumes. London, 1736, 1738.]
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An Acct of the Plague in Londn—1 vol. [Nathaniel Hodges. Loimologia; or, an historical account of the plague in London in 1665. Translated by John Quincy. London, 1720.]
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Seven Champions of Chrism—1 vol. [John Kirke. The seven champions of Christendom. London, 1638.]
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Parthanissa—1 vol. [Roger Boyle. Parthenissa, that most fam’d romance. London, 1676.]
Scarron’s Novels—1 vol. [Paul Scarron. Scarron’s novels. Translated by John Davies. London, 1700.]
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Wingates Arithmetick—1 vol. [Edmund Wingate. Mr. Wingate’s arithmetick. London, 1720.]
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Histl Desertn on the Thebn Legion—1 vol. [Jean Dubourdieu. An historical dissertation on the Thebean legion, plainly proving it to be fabulous. London, 1696.]
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Art of Teaching—1 vol. [John Newton. The country school-master, or, the art of teaching fair-writing, and . . . practical arithmetick. London, 1695.]
Wits Common Wealth—1 vol. [John Bodenham. Wit’s common-wealth: or, a treasury of divine, moral, historical and political admonitions, similes and sentences, for the use of schools. London, 1722.]
Tenant’s Law—1 vol. [Tenants law: or, the laws concerning landlords, tenants and farmers. London, 1726.]
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Lover’s Watch by Mrs Behn—1 vol. [Aphra Behn. The lover’s watch: or the art of making love. London, 1697.]
Funeral & Tender Husbd Coms.—1 vol. [Sir Richard Steele. The funeral; and the tender husband: comedies. London, 1712.]
Poems Devine & Moral—1 vol. [Nahum Tate. Miscellanea sacra; or poems on divine and moral subjects. London, 1696.]
Zengis a Tartarian History—1 vol. [Mlle. de La Roche Guilhem. Zingis: a Tartarian history. London, 1692.]
Wits Commonwealth—1 volume.
The Vision of Purgatory—1 vol. [Edward Pettitt. The visions of purgatory, anno 1680. In which the errors and practices of the church and court of Rome are discover’d. London, 1685.]
Observations on the Salt of the Sea—1 vol. [Robert Boyle. Tracts, consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea. London, 1674.]
Companion to a Justice of Peace—1 vol. [Thomas Pearce. The justice of the peace’s pocket companion; or the office and duty of a justice epitomised. London, 1753.]
Song’s & Poems—1 volume.
Sixty Six Latin Books of difft sizes.
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The Temple—1 vol. [George Herbert. The temple; sacred poems and private ejaculations. London, 1709.]
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Vaughan’s Collectn of Poems—1 vol. [Henry Vaughan. Poems, with the tenth satyre of Juvenal Englished. London, 1646.]
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Land Lords Law—1 vol. [George Meriton. Landlord’s law: a treatise very fit for the perusal of most men. London, 1697.]
Hodder’s Arithmetick—1 vol. [James Hodder. Hodder’s arithmetick. London, 1739.]
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Cocker’s Arithmetick—1 vol. [Edward Cocker. Cocker’s arithmetick. Being a plain and familiar method . . . as it is now taught by the ablest school masters. The 49th ed. carefully corrected and amended. By George Fisher. London, 1738.]
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English Grammer—1 vol. [Richard Browne. The English examiner; or, a spelling book. London, 1692.]
Some Passages of the L. & D. of the Earl of Rochester—1 vol. [Gilbert Burnet. Some passages of the life and death of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, written at his desire on his death-bed. 1741.]
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Title: Appendix E. Consolidated Inventory of Personal Property in the Estate, c.1761
From: Mercer, John
To:

[c.1761]

1. Inventory: Anchor & a Jack—224—appraised: £1.5.—sold for: GW—3/.
2. Andirons 2 pr—56–7s.6d.—No. 34, 15s.
3. Do 3 pr &c. 214 292–57—£10.—GW, 2 pr, 50/.
4. Do 1 pr & 4 Pots & hooks—120—£7.
5. Apple mill & 4 Jars & 2 Safes—122—£2.10—P.
6. Augurs &c. 10 244–97—£5.
7. 1 old [augur] & 1 Collar & hames—289–1s.6d.
8. Awlblades 76–136–1s.8d.—GW, 1s.4d.
9. Axes & hoes 25 & 1 Grindstone—17—£1.4.
10. 8 cooprs 5 narro. [axes] 6 grub[hoes] V[ide] 6.
11. 8 broad [axes] 1 Cask narro.—96—£11.10—P.
12. 7 [axes]—147—£1.1.
13. 1 Coopers [axe] & 17 hoes ⟨n⟩—208—£2.16.
14. 1 broad [axe] 5 narrow—266–12s.
15. 3 narrow [axes]—267–12s.
16. 2 [axes] & 18 hoes & old Iron—288—£1.5.
17. Barrels 2 &c. 104 196–143—£1.3.
18. [Old barrels] &c. & half bushel—291–2s.
19. Basket 1 &c. 43 49 151 367–175–4s.—No. 107, 11s.
20. Bed 1 old Trussell—160–3s.—No. 164, 3s.
21. Bedsteads &c. 69–22—£2—No. 32, 99, 84.
22. 1 old [bedstead] &c. 10 Chests 2 shovels—212—£2.10.–85 138 25/.
23. Bellows 1 pr—176–2s.—GW.
24. 2 pr [Bellows] &c., 67 366–189–6s.
25. Belt 1, &c. 40 94 110–66–13s.
26. [Belt] 1 & a bung borer & 3 Locks—136[135]–5s.
27. Boats 1 flat anchor &c.—1—£25—P.
28. 1 horse [“Boat & Canoe”] Do &c. 51–2—£6.10—P.
29. 1 small [“Boat”]—29—£1.5—P.
30. [“Col. Custis’s”] Books a parcel—41—£4—P, No. ⟨5⟩8 13s. 65 2/6 89 3/.
31. a parcel [“His Fathers books”]—177—£25.—P.
31. Book Case Desk & 5 Chairs—128—£3.5—No. 8, £4.5.
32. Bottles &c. 50 213–190–15s.—No. 113, 8s.
33. Boxes & old Trunks—59—£1.
34. [ditto] &c. 63 86 164 258 318 385–88—£10—No. 88, 2/6.
35. Brand Iron &c. 92 144 146 337 156 214 304–200—£1.—No. 108, 15s.6d.
36. Brass Cock 1 &c. 118 298 323 396–67–14s.—GW 1, 1s.3d.
37. [ditto] 1 &c. 171 285 340–134–5s.—Do [GW] 1, 1s.3d.
38. [ditto] 1 & a Tarrier & 2 measures—195–4s.
39. Brown holland 1 ps.—107—£3.—GW.
40. Brushes 9 &c. V[ide] 25.
41. Broom 1 & 1 Warming pan—166–10s.—No. 87, 9s.6d.
42. Butterpots 1 parcel—148—£1.8.—P.
43. [ditto] 1 &c. V[ide] 19; P.
44. [ditto] 1 &c. 252 325 336–204–6s.—P.

45. [ditto] 3–245–9s.—P.
46. Candlesticks 4 &c. 217 331–53–18s.; No. 109, 10s.
47. ditto 2 &c.—173–9s.—No. 68 9⟨1⟩, 7s.2d.
48. Canisters 16 &c. 155 204 348–52–12s.; No. 77, 4/., 1/., 3/.
49. [ditto] 1 &c. V[ide] 19.
50. [ditto] 1 &c. V[ide] 32.
51. Canoe 1 &c. V[ide] 28—P.
52. Cards Cotton wool 18 pr—58—£1.10—No. 72, 6/., 3/., 4/.
53. Carts 1 Ox yoke & Chain—3—£1.10—P.
54. 1 Do Chains & yoke—12—£3—P.
55. 1 Do Do & Do—16—£2.10—P.
56. 1 [cart]—142—£2—P.
57. 1 [ditto] & furniture—239—£11—P.
58. 1 [ditto] & wheels—272—£1.17.6—P.
59. 1 old Cart—273–5s.—P.
60. 1 Ox Do 2 Yokes & Chains—283—£3—P.
61. Casks 16 good & sevl old—11—£10—P.
62. a parcel of Do & hhds—28—£1.10—P.
63. [ditto] &c. V[ide] 34.
64. [ditto] 2 &c. 216 251–198–2s.—P.
65. 7 Cyder hhds—246—£1—P.
66. Centerbits 3 &c. 141 154 236 278 300–75–8s.—P.
67. Chaffing dishes 2 &c. V[ide] 24.
68. Chair 2 wheels & harness—20—£20.—No. 38, £17.
69. 1 old [chair] &c. V[ide] 21.
70. Chairs 12 Mahogony—42—£10.—No. 6, £11.0.6.
71. 2 Corner do—43—£2.
72. 10 leather [chairs]—46—£2—No. 79, 11, £2.2.
73. 1 easy do—47—£3—No. 7, £6.
74. Chairs 5 old &c. 85 377–54–17s.6d.
75. 5 [ditto] & a table & a Trunk—55—£1.15.
76. 5 [ditto] leather &c. V[ide] 31.
77. 4 [ditto] Canebottom—155—£1.
78. 8 Do & 3 leather—157—£2.15—No. 139, £1.6.
79. 5 [ditto]—165—£1.5.
80. 9 [ditto]—168—£1.7—No. 106, £2.5.6.
81. 12 [ditto]—182—£3—No. 31, £4.5.
82. Canhooks 1 pr & 19 Whetstones—220–6s.
83. Cherrypots 2 & 2 yds hair cloth—219–3s.—GW.
84. Chest of Drawers—48–15s.—No. 10, £2.14.6.
85. Chests 1 V[ide] 74; No. 132, 5s.
86. [ditto] &c. V[ide] 34; No. 184, 4s.1d.
87. [ditto] 1 & 2 Trunks—159–12s.—[No.] 185, 4s.6d.
88. 6 [ditto]—206—£1.10–187–8, 2 [Chests] 5s.3d.
89. 10 [ditto] &c. V[ide] 22.
90. 1 [ditto] for Cloaths 15/ 4 old 6/–215—£1.1.
91. Chisells 21 &c. 147 309–70—£1.8—P.
92. Chocolate pots 2 &c. V[ide] 35; No. 127–8, 14s.11d.
93. Cistern for meat & 1 Jar—196–10s.
94. Clamps 9 &c. V[ide] 25.
95. Cloaths brushes 2 & 1 pr pumps—183–12s.—GW.

96. Close stool pans 2 &c. 149 152 167 215–217–13s.—GW.
97. Copper kettle 1–121—£4—No. 39, £4.10.
98. 1 large Do & 1 Iron pot—130—£10—P.
99. 1 old Do—202–12s.—P.
100. Cocks for some Iron Lead &c.—95—£3.
101. Corner Cupboard 1–51—£1—No. 100, £1.15.
102. Corn 695 barrels—[see end of doc. III-A–5]—£174.7.6—£90.
103. Cattle 1354—[see end of doc. III-A–5]—£1565.4.6.
104. Corn Crib, V[ide] 17.
105. Cotton 510 yds—83—£51.
106. Couch 1[,] 2 Pictures 3 Maps—44—£1.14—No. 9 [&] No. 4, £2.12.6.
107. [ditto] 1–184–10s.—No. 143, 7s.
108. 1 [ditto]—221–10s.—No. 153, £1.4.
109. Crupper 1 & 4 pr Stirrup leathrs—111–7s.6d.
110. Currycombs 1 &c. V[ide] 25.
111. [ditto] &c. 213 221 258 290–101—£30.
112. 1 [currycomb] &c. 321 335 393–293–10s.
113. Casement & a Socket—225–6s.—GW Socket 6s.
114. Collar & hames V[ide] 7.
115. Currying knives 3–245—£1.
116. 1 fleshing Do—77–10s.
117. Cyder 500 galls.—280—£6.5.
118. Dark lanthorn V[ide] 36.
119. Desk 1 [&] 4 trunks & Lumber—116—£6.10—No. 64, £2.
120. 1 [ditto] V[ide] 31; No. 63, £3, No. 66, £1.15.6.
121. 1 old Do—167—£1—No. 135, £1.8.
122. 1 old Do & some trifles—180–10s.
123. 1 writing Do—184—£1.
124. Dogs 1 pr old & 1 brass fendr & shovel—156–5s.—No. 121, 7s.6d.
125. 1 Do [“Doggs”] 1 pr tongs & waterpot—198 [197]–8s.—No. 181, 8s.1d.
126. 1 pr Kitchen Do—201–15s.—No. 33, £2.11.
127. Dog collars 2 & 1 Cooprs Compass—223–3s.
128. Drawing knives 2–133–4s.
129. Dressing box 1–153–2s.
130. Duck 28 yds—78—£1.15—[John] Greenhow, £1.13.9.
131. [ditto] 4 ps.—87 [86]—£10—Do, £14.7.10
132. Duffell 15½ yds & 7½ Kersey—82—£4.19.6.
133. Dutch blankets 8 & 9 hats—76—£4.3.
134. [ditto] 3 ps.—84—£18.
135. Earthenware & 1 parcel Rope—94—£6.
136. Escritoire 1–167—£3—No. 138, £3.13.
137. Fender 1 brass V[ide] 124.
138. 1 [ditto] a hoe & 2 Waterpots—210–10s.—No. 152, 5s.
139. Files 2 doz. whipsaw &c. 277–71—£1.4.
140. 68 [files] of several sorts—72—£2.
141. 14 [ditto] &c. V[ide] 66.
142. Fire shovel V[ide] 124.
143. Flannel 98 yds—132—£8.3.4—GW 49, £4.1.8.
144. Fleshforks 2 V[ide] 35.
145. Frying pans 2 & 1 Pott—91–12s.6d.—P, No. 95, 4s., No. 163, 5s.9d.
146. [ditto] 1 V[ide]; P, No. 75, 4s.6d.

147. Gimletts 12 V[ide] 91.
148. Girths 16 & 2 Housings—65—£3.—No. 67, 17s.6d., No. 43, 44, £2.8.
149. Glass a parcel old window V[ide] 96.
150. 12 panes large Do—222–15s.—No. 111, £1.11.
151. Decanter V[ide] 19.
152. 2 Bell Glasses V[ide] 96.
153. Gloves 5 pr mens—106–10s.—GW.
154. Gouge 1 V[ide] 66.
155. Grater 1 V[ide] 48.
156. Grid Iron 1 V[ide] 35; No. 74, 5s.6d.
157. Grindstones 1. a hide & Chain—10—£1.15—P.
158. 1 [ditto] &c. V[ide] 9.
159. 1 [ditto] & Iron handle—214–4s.—P.
160. 1 large Do—239–12s.—P.
161. 1 old Do.—278–3s.—P.
162. 1 Do—294–2s.6d.—P.
163. Gunpowder 75 lb. & 1 C 3 q. Shot—79—£8.18.
164. [ditto] &c. V[ide] 34.
165. Guns 1–40—£1.5.—No. 62, 16s.
166. 1 shortbarrel Do & 1 Sword—179–15s.—No. 110, 14s.6d., No. 41, £1.8.
167. 1 old Do V[ide] 96.
168. Haircloth 2 yds V[ide] 83.
169. Handmill 1–277—£1—P.
170. Hasps & Staples 33 & 16 Whetstones—74–9s.6d.—GW, [nos.] 7 & 4, 2s.2d.
171. [ditto] 4 &c. V[ide] 37.
172. Hatchets 2 &c. 212 256 363–73–12s.—GW part, 3s.
173. 1 [ditto]—276–1s.8d.
174. Hats 30 Mens—61—£3.16.
175. 1 Do—62—£1.15.
176. 9 Do V[ide] 133.
177. Hides 1 V[ide] 157.
178. 3 [ditto], 5 hhds 5 Sieves & Lumbr—24—£1.10.
179. 2 [hides]—144–2s.6d.
180. Hinges 6 pr x garnet &c. 320 333–98—£4.
181. Hoes 25 V[ide] 9.
182. 61 narrow [ditto]—18—£9.
183. 24 Do & 21 broad—99—£8.
184. 13 [ditto]—147—£1.6.
185. 17 narrow [ditto] V[ide] 13.
186. 1 small [ditto] V[ide] 138.
187. 2 broad [ditto]—249–6s.
188. 7 Do—268—£1.3.4.
189. 4 narrow [ditto] 12/ 4 old 2/–269–14s.
190. 8 old broad [ditto]—270–13s.4d.
191. 1 narrow [ditto]—287–3s.6d.
192. 18 old [ditto] V[ide] 16.
193. 756 Hogs—[see end of doc. III-A–5]—£232.1.6.
194. Hogsheads 5 V[ide] 178.
195. a parcel [ditto] V[ide] 62.
196. a parcel old [ditto] V[ide] 17.
197. Hoops for Cart wheels a Sett—249–12s.

198. Horses 45—[see end of doc. III-A–5]—£306.
199. Housings 2 V[ide] 148.
200. Jack 1 Screw Do V[ide] 1.
201. Jarrs 4 V[ide] 5; No. 36, 13s.
202. 6 [ditto] wth some Oil & Soap—194—£8.—No. 129–30, 11s.6d.
203. 1 [ditto] V[ide] 93.
204. Inkstand 1 V[ide] 48; No. 93, 6s.6d.
205. Ironchain 1 V[ide] 157.
206. Ironpots 2 old—4–12s.—No. 165, 13s.6d.
207. 1 Do V[ide] 145.
208. 4 Do & hooks V[ide] 4.
209. 1 Do V[ide] 98; No. 159, 1 & hooks 5s.
210. 4 Do & 2 pr hooks—202—£1.10—P 5 pr hooks & 3 Pots
211. 1 Do & hooks—279–5s.—No. 83, £1.1.2.
212. Ironscrews 10 V[ide] 172.
213. Ironware &c. V[ide] 111.
214. Jugs V[ide] 3; No. 182, 3s.1d.
215. Kersey 50 yds—81—£8.7.6.
216. [ditto] 7½ yds V[ide] 132.
217. Knives & forks V[ide] 46.
212[a]. 12 Do—188–12s.—GW.
213[a]. a few [ditto] V[ide] 32.
214[a]. Ladle 1 V[ide] 35, V[ide] 109 Sales.
215[a]. Lampblack a few barrls V[ide] 96.
216[a]. Lanthorn 1 old V[ide] 64.
217[a]. Lead 476 lib.—19—£3.19.—GW, [No.] 80, 13s.4d.
218. [ditto] &c. V[ide] 100.
219. Leather 13 sides—77—£2.5.
220. 202 sides [ditto] & 46 skins of upper—92—£49.4.
221. Locks & stocklocks &c. V[ide] 111.
222. 3 [ditto] V[ide] 26.
223. Looking glasses 1 & a dressing Do—50—£2.6.—No. 137, £1.4.6.
224. 1 Do & 1 Do—129—£1—No. 29, £1.3.6.
225. 2 dressing Do—158–10s.—No. 115, 19s.
226. 1 [“Large Looking Glass”]—171—£1—No. 134, £4.10.
227. 1 [“Small Dressing Glass”]—181—£3—No. 1, £1.18.6; No. 141, 7s.9d.

Maps & Prints
228. Alexanders battles 5–163–13s.
229. Caesars 12–162—£1.10.
230. 3 V[ide] 106; No. 47, 5s.
231. 4 Maps & 4 prints—154–8s—No. 116 to 119, 32 [“Picturs”], £3.5.
232. 3 Do & 5 Do—158–8s.
233. 2 Do 2/. 5 glass Do 10/–161–12s.—No. 123 to 125, 25 [pictures], £2.19.9.
234. 5 Prints 5/ 32 glass Do 64/–169—£3.9.—No. 136, 5s.
235. 21 glass Prints—181—£1.5—No. 144, 5, 6, & 7, 30 odd [pictures], £4.3.6.
236. Marking Irons 1 pr V[ide] 66; No. 37, 2s.
237. Measures a pint pot V[ide] 47; No. 69, 2s.
238. [ditto] a gallon pot—193–2s.
239. 2 pewter [ditto] V[ide] 38.
240. 2 [ditto] & 2 Riddles & 2 Shovels—207—£1.5.

241. 1 old half bushel [ditto] V[ide] 18.
242. Medicines—38—£8.
243. [ditto] a parcel & some trifles—192—£2.
244. Millpecks V[ide] 6.
245. Millstones 2 pr hand Do—25—£4.10.—P.
246. 1 pr [ditto]—152—£1—P.
247. 1 pr [ditto] & a peck—290–12s.6d.—P.
248. Milkpans 82–123—£1.13.6.
249. a parcel [of ditto]—148–16s.
250. 2 dozen [ditto]—247–15s.
251. Mousetrap 1 V[ide] 64.
252. 1 Do V[ide] 44.
253. Nails 8 barrels—89—£70.
254. a parcel [of ditto]—209—£5.
255. 24 m [M] 6d. [of Nails] £4.16. a parcel old [ditto] 15/–250—£5.11.
256. Nippers 2 pr V[ide] 172–73—[no appraisal].
257. Old hoes axes Boxes Hoops &c.—5—£4.
258. Old Iron V[ide] 34, 100, 111, 16; No. 120, 7s.
259. a parcel [ditto]—146–12s., No. 189, 17s.6d.
260. some [ditto]—203–3s.
261. a parcel [ditto] & old Harrows—240—£2.
262. Ozenbrigs 9 ps.—86—£52.10.
263. 350 Ells [ditto]—112—£21.17.6.
264. Paint some red Lead & 1 table—211–10s.—No. 162, 4s.7d.
265. Pails Piggins & Tubs—149–10s.
266. 2 old [Pails] 1 Piggin 2 Tubs—205–2s.
267. Pictures 2 V[ide] 106.
268. 24 painted Do—162—£10.
269. 6 painted [pictures] on wood—164—£1.
270. 13 painted [ditto]—170—£6.10.
271. a parcel [“of small picturs”]—178—£1.—No. 160, 6s.6d.
272. 2 painted [pictures]—182—£1.5.—No. 167, 8 [pictures], 5s.
273. a parcel of old ones—216–6s.—No. 168 to 178, 40 [pictures], £3.3.11.
274. Pillow 1 & a remnant of ticken—108—£1.—No[s]. 179, 10, 9s.6d., No. 90, 15s.
275. Plaid hose 177 pr & 1 pr shoes—87—£11.4.3.
276. Plains 75 yds—80—£10—No. 61, 1/6.
277. Plane Irons 11 V[ide] 139.
278. 2 Do V[ide] 66.
279. Pistols a pr & 1 Sword—39—£3—No. 45, 15s.
280. Plate 23 lib. at 6/6–36—£119—JC £119.
281. 16¾ lib. [ditto] at 4/6–37—£60—Do £60.
282. 26 oz. [ditto] 15 d⟨wt⟩—191—£8.0.6; Do £8.0.6.
283. Plate case [“Press”] 1–186—£2.10—No. 150, £2.12.
284. Plows 4–271–14s.—P.
285. Rasp 1 V[ide] 37.
286. Riddles 2 V[ide] 240.
287. Rolls 39 ps.—85—£52.10.
288. 1 ps. [ditto] & sevl wrappers—113—£3.

289. Rope 1 ps.—84–6s.—[John] Greenhow, £9.12.1.
290. a parcel [of ditto] V[ide] 135 111.
291. Rug 1–106—£1—GW.
292. Saddle & bridle 1 V[ide] 3; No. 92, £1.0.6.
293. Saines a new one—26—£7.
294. 2 Casks old [ditto] V[ide] 100–27—£4.
295. 2 large ones & Ropes—102—£20.
296. Safes 2 V[ide] 5, 64; No. 131, 9s.
297. Saws 6 whipsaws & 2 x cut—23—£4—GW 2 w[hipsaws] £1.
298. 1 handsaw, V[ide] 36.
299. 1 handsaw—275–7s.6d.
300. Sawwrests 1 (1 V[ide] 66)–69–1s.3d.
301. Salt a parcel—93—£10.
302. A small quantity of large [ditto]—213–8s.
303. 7 bushels [ditto]—274–17s.6d.
304. Scales 1 pr (1 pr V[ide] 35)–151–10s.—No. 57, £1.1.6, No. 154, 2s.
305. Schooner 1–28—£50—[John] Greenhow £50.
306. Scythes & furniture 6–100—£2.
307. Serge Denim 3 yds & 2 Remnts Tammy—63—£2.5.—E. Bacon, S[erge] £2.2.6.
308. Sheep 238—[see end of doc. III-A–5]—£56.16.
309. Sheepshears 6 pr V[ide] 91.
310. Shoes 12 pr mens Do & Slippers—60—£5.
311. 39 pr Negro Do—115–6.16.6.
312. 1 pr Do—137–3s.
313. 1 pr Pumps V[ide] 95.
314. Shoethread a parcel—109—£1.
315. Shovels 2 V[ide] 240.
316. 2 Do V[ide] 22.
317. Shot 1 C 3 qrs V[ide] 163.
318. [ditto] &c. V[ide] 34.
319. abot 40 lib. mixed [shot]—218–10s.—No. 114, 5s.3d.
320. Sickles 1 doz. V[ide] 180.
321. [ditto] 6 V[ide] 112.
322. Sieves 4 brass 1 Iron V[ide] 178.
323. 1 Search & 1 Sifter V[ide] 36.
324. 21 course Sifters—90–1.6.3.
325. 1 Search V[ide] 44; No. 96, 1s.3d.
326. 2 Wire Seives—276–7s.
327. 1 Wheat Sieve—295–3s.
328. Skillets 2 old & 2 Tea Kettles—119—£1.5—No. 126, £2; No. 70, 3s.
329. 2 bellmettle Do—199–12s.—No. 56, £1.1.
330. Slate 1 & pencils—110–2s.—GW.
331. Snuffers 1 pr V[ide] 46.
332. 2 pr [ditto] V[ide] 47.
333. Spades 11 V[ide] 180.
334. 1 old Do—275–1s.
335. Spancels 1 pr Iron V[ide] 112.
336. Spinning wheel 1 V[ide] 44.
337. Spits 2 V[ide] 35; No. 183, 6s.6d.
338. Staples 33 V[ide] 170.

339. 22 [ditto]—76–3s.
340. 5 [ditto] V[ide] 37.
341. Stillyards 1 pr—64–12s.
342. 1 pr [ditto]—150–15s.
343. 1 pr [ditto]—172–3s.
344. 1 pr [ditto]—244–6s.
345. Stockings 11 pr mens V[ide] 275–105—£2.17.6—GW.
346. Stirrups 1 pr & 1 Chariot whip—114–7s.—GW.
347. Stirrup leathers 4 pr V[ide] 109.
348. Sugar boxes 2 tin V[ide] 48; No. 35, 9s.
349. Swords V[ide] 279; No. 40, £2.10.
350. 1 cutting Do—117—£2.10.
351. 1 Sword V[ide] 166.
352. Tables 1 large walnut Do—30—£2—No. 4, £1.15.
353. 2 large Mahogony Do—43—£6—GW 1, £3, No. 2, £3.10.
354. 1 walnut Do—45–10s.
355. 1 Do & 2 Trunks—49—£1.10.—No. 149, £1.15.
356. 1 table V[ide] 75.
357. 2 Do—153–15s.—No. 27, 28, £1.5.6.
358. 2 old Do—165–4s.—No. 161, 1s.3d.
359. 1 large Do—185—£1.10.—No. 166, 16s.9d., No. 186, 6s.
360. 1 square Do wth a picture in it—187–15s.—GW £1.
361. 1 table V[ide] 264; No. 142, 11s.6d.
362. Tammy 2 Remnants V[ide] 307; No. 59, 1.10.6, [No.] 102, 13s.
363. Taperbits 4 V[ide] 172.
364. Tar & Tarbarrels—131–15s.
365. Tarrier 1 V[ide] 38.
366. Teaboard 1 V[ide] 24; No. 101, 10s.6d.
367. Teachest 1 old V[ide] 19; No. 76, 2s.6d.
368. Teakettles 2 V[ide] 328.
369. Thread 50¾ lb. bro. & colld & 1 lb. wt. bro.—104—£1.
370. Ticken a Remnant V[ide] 274.
371. Tongs 1 pr old V[ide] 125.
372. Tools for sundry Tradesmen—124—£10.
373. A Coopers Compass V[ide] 127.
374. a parcel of Carpenters [tools]—248—£7.10.
375. Trowells 2–135–4s.
376. Trunks 2 V[ide] 355; No. 82, £2.1.6.
377. 1 Do V[ide] 74; No. 80, 14s.6d.
378. 1 Do V[ide] 75; No. 81, 14s.
379. a parcel old Do V[ide] 33.
380. 4 Do V[ide] 119.
381. 1 Do—153–2s.
382. 2 Do V[ide] 87.
383. Tubs V[ide] 265, 266.
384. Twine 17 lib.—103–17s.
385. Vials V[ide] 34.
386. Virginia cloth 36 yds—78—£1.16.
387. Warming pan 1 V[ide] 41—No. 87, 9s.6d., No. 112, 8s.3d.
388. Waterpot 1 old V[ide] 125.
389. 2 Do V[ide] 138.

390. Wedges 5 old—146–7s.6d.
391. 6 Do—248–12s.
392. 9 Do—270–18s.
393. 3 Do V[ide] 112.
394. Whet or Ragstones 16 V[ide] 170.
395. 19 Do V[ide] 82.
396. Whipthongs 5 V[ide] 36.
397. 1 Chariot whip V[ide] 346.
398. Wool 140 lib.—118–£7.–40 lb. 40w.
399. Wrappers V[ide] 288.


Title: Appendix F. List of Dower Slaves, 1760–61
From: Washington, George
To:

[1760–1761]

A List of Working Dower Negroes, where settled, & under whose care, 1760 At Claibornes John Roan [overseer]

George
A Man

1 Share

Stephen
Ditto

1 Ditto

Parros
Ditto

1 ditto

Argyle
Ditto

1 ditto

Solomon
Ditto

1 ditto

Marlbrough
Ditto

1 ditto

Sam
Ditto

1 ditto

David
Ditto

1 ditto

Hector
Ditto

1 ditto

Will
Ditto

1 ditto

Sam ⟨Cit⟩
Ditto

1 ditto

Sarah
A Woman

1 ditto

Sew
Ditto

1 ditto

Patt
Ditto

1 ditto

Rachel
Ditto

1 ditto

Jenny
Ditto

1 ditto

Citt
Ditto

1 ditto

Citt
A Girl

½ ditto

George
A Boy

½ ditto

18 shares

John Roan
2 shares

At Moncock Hill Isaac Osling [overseer]

Matt
A Man

1 Share

Will
Ditto

1 ditto

Moll
A Woman

1 ditto

Sarah
Ditto

1 ditto

4

Overseer
1

5 In all

At Bridge Quarter—York

Bachus
A Man

1 Share

Ben
Ditto

1 ditto

Young Ned
Ditto

1 ditto

Cupid
Ditto

1 ditto

Old Daphne
A Woman

1 ditto

Young Daphne
Ditto

1 ditto

Moll
Ditto

1 ditto

Frank
Ditto

1 ditto

Arlington
a Boy

½ ditto

Caesar
Ditto

½ ditto

George
Ditto

½ ditto

Suckey
a Girl

½ ditto

10 ditto

At the Ship Landing—[York]

Crispin
A Man

1 Share

Ned Holt
Ditto

1 ditto

Old Captain
Ditto

1 ditto

Jupiter
Ditto

1 ditto

Brunswick
Do

1 ditto

Moll
A Woman

1 ditto

Betty
Ditto

1 ditto

7 ditto


Title: Cash Accounts, May 1759
From: Washington, George
To:

[May 1759]

Cash

May 4
To Ditto [cash] of Ditto [Col. Custis’s Estate]
£406. 0.0

To Ditto of Ditto
3.10.0

To Ditto of Ditto
60. 0.0

To a Bill of Excha[nge] of Do for £40–9s. Sterg
54.12.2

May 11th
To Cash of Colo. Custis’s Estate
46. 7.6

Contra

May 4
By Miles Richardson 5/.  By Racing £4
4. 5.0

By my Wife 3£.  A Negro of Docr Symmes £60
63. 0.0

By 9 Negro’s bot of Colo. [William] Churchill
406. 0.0

By a Bill of Excha. remitted Mr Rd Washington £40.9 Sterg.
54.12.2

May 9
By Cash pd Miles Richardson—pr Acct
1. 4.0

By Ditto at Cards
0.17.6

By Ditto at Do
0. 3.9

16
By Expences at Combs’s
0. 4.4 1/2

By Taxes Levies &ca pd Jno. Hardin Shff
5. 5.0

By Cash lost at Cards
5. 0.0

By Do pd Jno. Messmore for A Mare bot
12. 0.0

By Do gave Colo. Byrds Peter
0.10.0

By Do pd my Acct with Greenfield
2. 9.6

By Do pd Do with Mr Woodrow
7. 3.6

21
By Do pd Do with Phil Bush
9.12.6

By Do pd Jno. Spore
10.0

By Do Exps. at Shannondoah
5.0

By Do at Colo. Fx quarter
2.6

24
By Richard Stephen’s to pay for Corn
16. 7.9

By Do to pay for Plank
6. 0.0

By lost at Cards
17.6


Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Co., 1 May 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Williamsburg May 1. 1759.

The Inclosd is the Ministers Certificate of my Marriage with Mrs Martha Custis—properly as I am told—Authenticated, you will therefore for the future please to address all your Letters which relate to the Affairs of the late Danl Parke Custis Esqr. to me. as by Marriage I am entitled to a third part of that Estate, and Invested likewise with the care of the other two thirds by a Decree of our Genl Court which I obtaind in order to Strengthen the Power I before had in consequence of my Wifes Administration.
I have many Letters of yours in my possession unanswerd, but at present this serves only to advise you of the above Change and at the sametime to acquaint you that I shall continue to make you the same Consignments of Tobo as usual, and will endeavour to encrease it in proportion as I find myself and the Estate benefitted thereby.
The Scarcity of the last Years Crop; and the high prices of Tobo consequent thereupon woud in any other Case, have inducd me to sell the Estates Crop (which indeed is only 16 Hhds) in the Country but for a present, & I hope small advantage only I did not care to break the Chain of Corrispondance that has so long Subsisted, and therefore have, according to your desire, given Captn Talman an offer of the whole.
On the other side is an Invoice of some Goods which I beg of you to send me by the first Ship bound either to Potomack or Rappahannock, as I am in immediate want of them, Let them be Insurd, and in case of accidents reshipd witht Delay. Direct

for me at Mount Vernon Potomack River Virginia; the former is the name of my Seat the other the River on which ’tis Situated. I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 1 May 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Willmsbg 1 May 1759.

Invoice of Sundry Goods to be Shipd by Robt Cary Esq. and Company for the use of George Washington—viz.
1 Tester Bedstead 7½ feet pitch, with fashionable blew or blew and white Curtains to suit a Room lind wt. the Incld paper Window Curtains of the same for two Windows; with either Papier Maché Cornish to them, or Cornish coverd with the Cloth 1 fine Bed Coverlid to match the Curtains 4 Chair bottoms of the same; that is, as much Covering suited to the above furniture as will go over the Seats of 4 Chairs (which I have by me) in order to make the whole furniture of this Room uniformly handsome and genteel.
1 Fashionable Sett of Desert Glasses, and Stands for Sweet Meats Jellys &ca together with Wash Glasses and a proper stand for these also 2 Setts of Chamber, or Bed Carpets—Wilton 4 fashionable China Branches, & Stands, for Candles 2 Neat fire Screens 50 lb. Spirma Citi Candles 6 Carving knives and Forks—handles of Staind Ivory and bound with Silver A pretty large Assortment of Grass Seeds—among which let there be a good deal of Lucerne & St Foin, especially the former—also a good deal of English, or blew Grass[.] Clover Seed I have 1 Large, neat, and easy Couch for a Passage 50 Yards of best Floor Matting.
2 pair of fashionable mixd, or Marble Col[ore]d Silk Hose 6 pair of finest Cotton Ditto 6 pr of finest thread Ditto 6 pr of midling Do to cost abt 5/ 6 pr of Worsted Do of the best sorted—2 pr of wch to be White N.B. all the above Stockings to be long, and tolerably large 1 piece of finest and most fashionable Stock Tape 1 Suit of Cloaths of the finest Cloth & fashionable Colour made by the Inclosd measure.
The newest, and most approvd Treatise of Agriculture—besides this, send me a small piece in Octavo—calld a new System

of Agriculture, or a Speedy way to grow Rich Langleys Book of Gardening Gibson, upon Horses the latest Edition in Quarto.
Half a dozn pair of Men’s neatest Shoes and Pumps, to be made by one Didsbury on Colo. Baylors Last—but a little larger than his—& to have high Heels 6 pr Mens riding Gloves rather larger than the middle size One neat Pocket Book, capable of receiving Memorandoms & small Cash Accts to be made of Ivory, or any thing else that will admit of cleaning Fine soft Calf Skin for a pair of Boots—Ben. leathr for Soles.
Six Bottles of Greenhows Tincture.
Order from the best House in Madeira a Pipe of the best old Wine, and let it be Securd from Pilferers.

Go: Washington


Title: From George Washington to Richard Washington, 7 May 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Washington, Richard

Dear Sir,
Mount Vernon 7th May 1759

Your Letter of the 9th of Septr Inclosing a Copy of your former of the 5th July preceeding came to my hands about the first of March last: I am glad to find that the several Bills remitted you were accepted; I had no cause to doubt their goodness, but we notwithstanding are often deceivd—I now Inclose you one for £40.9s.—as I find Mr Knox has sold my Tobo for about one third part of its value, and Mr Bacon that which I sent him under its real worth—I have no Accts yet of the Sales of that sent you.
The Short Crops last year puts it out of my power to Ship you any Tobo this—I made very little myself, and none is to be bought under 50/ pr C[w]t. I shall shortly take an oppertunity of remitting you another Bill as I don’t know how our Acct Stands Ballancd.
’Till I hear from you, I have nothing worth mentioning—I have quit a Military Life; and Shortly shall be fixd at this place with an agreable Partner, and then shall be able to conduct my own business with more punctuality than heretofore as it will pass under my own immediate Inspection—a thing Impractacable while I dischargd my Duty in the Publick Service of the Country. I am Dr Sir with very great truth Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: To George Washington from James Biggs, 10 May 1759
From: Biggs, James
To: Washington, George

Sir
May 10th 1759

according to your Command ⟨I have⟩ sent you as near as I am able ⟨mutilated⟩ accot of the nigros and stocks ⟨mutilated⟩ Rest of the ⟨Estate⟩ of Colo. Custis on ⟨this⟩ shore Except ⟨in⟩ ⟨S⟩mith’s Island which I omited on accot of ⟨its⟩ being Rented out but if meteral may be seen by a leas that Mr Vollentine has in his pirsession⟨,⟩ heare is som corn which is sold tho. not delivered yet and will be about 1000 Bushells.
⟨mutilated I⟩ am at Command your humble ⟨sevt⟩

James Biggs


Title: Cash Accounts, June 1759
From: Washington, George
To:

[June 1759]

Cash

June 13—
To Ditto [cash] of Ditto [Col. Custis’s estate]
£154. 0.0

19—
To Ditto of Ditto
20. 0.0

To Ditto of Ditto
77. 0.0

To Ditto of Ditto
12.15.0

To Ditto of Ditto
6.12.0

Contra

June 16—
By Cash pd Mr Prentis’s Acct
54. 9.7 3/4

By Do pd Captn Meridith for a Pipe Wine
45. 0.0

By Do pd Mr Richie’s Acct
29. 0.0

By Do pd Chs Jones’s—Taylor
10.15.1

By Do pd Tarpely & Knox’s
7. 4.9

By Do pd Alexr Craig—Sadler
5. 5.2

By Do pd Joseph Scrivener
2.18.1 1/2

By Do pd Hugh Orr—brass Work
1. 1.4

By Do pd James Graham—Store Acct
0. 8.6

By Thos Bishop 10/. By Mrs Washington £10
10.10.0

By Do [cash] pd Wm Cloptan for Negro Hannah & Child
80. 0.0

By Billy Baily—Subscription
1.10.0

By Craik Jeweller
2. 0.0

By Mrs Dandridge Servts 2/6.  Ferriage West p[oin]t 5
0. 7.6


Title: From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 12 June 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Capel & Osgood Hanbury

Gentn
Virginia 12th June 1759

It will be needless I presume, unless it be for Formsake, to tell you so long after the thing has happend, of my Marriage with Mrs Martha Custis; you doubtless have heard of it before this can reach you, but as I thought proof might be requisite I sent over the Ministers certificate (which I was told was sufficient testimony) to Messr Cary & Compa. and to that I also refer you for your further satisfaction on this point.
I must now desire that you will please to address all your Letters which relate to the Affairs of the Deceasd Colo. Custis to me as by Marriage I am entitled to a third part of that Estate, and invested with the care of the other two thirds by a Decree of our Genl Court which I obtaind in order to strengthen the power I before had in Consequence of my Wifes Administration.
Your several Letters of last Year that are unanswerd bearing date the 6th July, 12th Septr and 26th Decr now lye before me, and I shall take notice of them accordingly; but give me leave in the first place to condole with you—& I do it very sincerely, on the Death of yr Relation and Partner, John Hanbury Esqr.—The 28 Hogsheads Tobacco Shipd you pr the King of Prussia has not only fallen short very greatly of the Sales of those Consignd Mr Cary, but even of your own Sales in other Years which I am the more Surprizd at as Tobo was scarce that year and I assurd by the Managers of that belonging to the Estate that it passd thro. their hands in the same good Order as usual, and that it was of the same kind and Quality.
I hope your next will account for the Tobo taken in the Anna Pink which I think has long remaind in an undeterminate State.
Dunbars Lawsuit is again brought to Virginia—what the Reports might be that were spread to your prejudice I really know not, for my own part I shoud never harbour a Suspicion of any Gentn who is chargd with the management of a Suit of that Importance—It woud be very dis-engenuous, & dishonourable—

give it no worse a name—first to undertake; and then neglect a Cause that so nearly Affects the Interest of a distant friend, and Antient Corrispondant and therefore you stand fully acquitted in my Eye.
The exceeding Short Crops of Tobo last Year render’s it impractacable for me to Ship you any this Summer—next, as things wears a favourable aspect at present I shall possibly have it in my power to do it. but give me leave to add here, that Duty to the charge which I am entrusted as well as self Interest will induce me to abide by the Merchants who Shews the greatest Exertion in the Sales of my own and the Estates Tobo which will be made under the same direction, and without altering the kind or manner of treating it unless you can advise a better method of making it sell well.
I cannot help expressing some little Surprize at not receiving your Acct Currt with the Estate when I find it requird in almost every Letter that has been wrote you since Colo. Custis’s Death and as often promisd by you—I must once more require in the strongest terms that it may be sent half yearly from the time of that Gentlemans Death, that by comparing these with his Books I may be able to make out clear and Satisfactory Accts to Our Genl Court and that they also be punctualy sent Spring and Fall for the time to come. I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 12 June 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Virginia 12th June 1759.

In a Letter which I wrote you the first of last Month was Inclosd an Invoice of Sundries which I then was, and still am, much in need of. If those Goods shoud not be Shipd before this Letter gets to hand pray add to your purchase the things which you will find on the other side and send them as there directed.
I shall find occasion to write you fully by the Fleet and Inclosing a list of Sundries that will be wanted for the Estates use, and till then I shall forbear to trouble you with particulars, as I shall expect also by that time to get some Acct of the Sales of the Estates Tobo sent you; and an Acct Currt as this last is necessary for me to compare with my own Accts in order to [make] a satisfactory Settlement with our Genl Court I entreat you to be punctual in sending me one Spring and Fall yearly.
I shall keep the Estate under the same direction as formerly, neither altering the managers, kind of Tobo or manner of treating it, unless you advise otherwise for our Interest, and while I continue to persue this method I hope you will be able to render such Sales as will not only Justifie the prest Consignments to you but encourage my enlarging them—for I shall be candid in telling you that duty to the Charge with which I am entrusted as well as self Interest will incline me to abide by those who gives the greatest proof of their Abilities in selling

my own and the Estates Tobo and purchasing Our Goods which I can no otherwise Judge of than by the Accts that will be renderd—and here permit me to ask if it woud be advisable to change the Marks of any of the Tobo or had I best Ship it all under the usual Marks. if so, my part may be known by some small distinction, such as you can best advise.
In my last among other things I desird you woud send me (besides a Small Octavo volume) the best System now extant of Agriculture; since which I have been told that there is one lately publishd—done by various hands—but chiefly collected from the Papers of Mr Hale. If this is known to be the best pray send it but not if any other is in higher Esteem. I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 12 June 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Virginia 12th June 1759

Invoice of Sundrie Goods to be Shipd by Robt Cary Esqr. and Company—for the use of George Washington.
200 lbs. Red Le[a]d ground up in Oyl 100 lbs. White Ditto ground in Ditto 15 lb. Putty 150 Squares Window Glass—

9 by 11 Inches 1 dozn Common locks—for Inside Doors 6 dozn Smiths Files of different Sorts 1 Steel hand Mill for grinding Wheat into Flour 10 lb. Emery 10 lb. Rotton Stone 25 lb. Whiting 2 large hair Mattrasses 6 dozn large and best hard mettle Plates with my Crest engravd—which you will know by the Inclosd 2 dozn dishes of the same properly sorted, & sizd.

Go: Washington


Title: Cash Accounts, July 1759
From: Washington, George
To:

[July 1759]

Cash

July 5—
To ditto [cash] of Ditto [Col. Custis’s estate]
£  3. 7. 6

10—
To ditto of Ditto
15. 0. 0

To ditto Recd of Mr Rt Jackson for 4 Hhds Tobo
76. 4. 2

To Ditto of the Estate
4. 1. 3

To Ditto of Ditto
8.10. 0

To Ditto of Thos Mobbs in part for Rent
2.10. 0

To Ditto of the Estate
311.18. 4

To Ditto Recd of Mr Alexr for the use of my Stal[lion]
1. 1. 6

To Ditto of Mr Brasenton Do
0.10. 9

To Ditto of Jno. Alton—got by my Stallion
2.10. 0

Contra

July 3d—
By pd James Danforth [,] Smith
2. 5. 0

By Do pd Mrs Vaughan 16/. pd Do for P. Custis 13/
1. 9. 0

By George Heaths Acct—in full
1.11. 0

By Mrs Washington
1.11. 3

By Mr Chamberlaynes Will
1. 0. 0

By Thomas Bishop
0.10. 0

By Exps. on the Road to Fairfax
3. 5. 6

By 6 ⟨Stape⟩ Stocks
0. 5. 0

By my Mother
15. 0. 0

10—
By pd my Acct with Mr Jackson
69. 6.11 1/2

By Cash pd Jno. Winter’s—Painter
5. 0. 0

By Do pd Wm Lewis—for Oystershells in full
4. 1. 3

30—
By Richard Stephens—to discharge him from Prison Bounds at suit of Mr Kirkpatrick
21. 0. 0

By Exps. to Nangemy
1. 0. 0


Title: From George Washington to Robert Stewart, 30 July 1759 [letter not found]
From: Washington, George
To: Stewart, Robert

 Letter not found: to Robert Stewart, 30 July 1759. On 28 Sept. Stewart wrote to GW: “I . . . receiv’d your Affectionate & most obliging favour of the 30th July.”


Title: To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 6 August 1759 [letter not found]
From: Robert Cary & Company
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 6 Aug. 1759. On 30 Nov. GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co.: “Your favour of the 6th Augt I have had the pleasure of receiving.”


Title: Invoice from Robert Cary & Company, 6 August 1759
From: Robert Cary & Company
To: Washington, George

London 6th August 1759

Invoice of Sundry Goods Shipd by Robt Cary & Coma. on board the Lawrence and Jane, Richd Yates Master for Virginia on account and risque of Colo. George Washington

Willm Cheslyn—Ironmongery

12 Plate Stock Locks and Staples
.12.

         12 Files sorted No.
         1 1/6
         15 ditto No.
         2 2/ 2/6

          8 ditto
         3 @ 3/ 2/
          7 ditto
         4 4/ 2/4

          6 ditto
         5   6/ 3/
          7 ditto
         6 8/ 4/8

          5 ditto
         7  10/ 4/2
          6 ditto
         8 12 6/

. 4.

. 4. 4

. 7. 8

.10. 2

6 Rubbers wt 18¼ 7d. 10/7¾ 1 Wheat Mill 3.13.6
4. 4. 1 3/4

10 lb. Emery 4d. 3/4 10 lb. Rotton Stone 3d. 2/6
. 5.10

25 lb. Whitg 6d. 1 Cask 2/6
. 3.

1 Wheel for the Mill

  6.11. 1[3/4]

Richd Cleeve—Pewterer

2 dozn Superfine hard mettle dishes sorted 6 dozn very best Plates Wt 183 lb. @ 13d.
9.18. 3

Engraving 96 Crests @ 3d.
1. 4.

Cask
. 3.

 11. 5. 3

Willm Maile

         1 Rundlet w[hit]e Lead ground Gr.
         1.0.16 1/2

            . 6 1/2

         1.0.10 @ 34/ pCt

1.17.

Rundlet
. 1. 8

         1 Rundlet Red Paint
         2.0.13

            .13

         2.0. 0 @ 42/ pCt

4. 4.

Rundlet
. 3. 6

1 Kegg Putty 15 lb. 5/ Kegg 6d.
. 5. 6

  6.11. 8

Joseph Garrard

To 50 lb. Spirma Citi Candles @ 2/
5.  .

A Packen Case & Cord to bind the same
. 2.

  5. 2.

J: Didsbury

3 pr Wd. he[el] Shoes and 3 pair pumps
2. 8.

1 pr best Calf leathr Boot Legs & Vamps
.10. 6

1 pr strong Butt Soals & Toppices
. 2. 6

3. 1.

George Maynard—Hosier

6 pr Mens Superfine 4 thrd Worsted Hose @ 6/
  1.16.

2 pr ditto figurd Silk @ 16/ 32/ 6 pr do 4th white thrd @ 5/ 30/
3. 2.

6 pr thrd do Super: @ 7/6 45/ 6 pr do Cotton@ 7/6 45/
4.10.

  9. 8.

John Clarke—Books

Home on Agriculture 3/ System of Agriculture 3/
. 6.

Lisles Husbandry 2 vols. 10/ Langley’s Gardg 4to 15/
1. 5.

Gibson on Farriery 4to (the only one in London)
1. 1.

  2.12.

Thos Greenough

1 dozn preserving Tincture
. 9.

2 dozn Spunge Tooth Brushes @ 4/6 2/3 Box 6d.
. 2. 9

   .11. 9

Henry Bodker—Cutlery

Six pr Green Carving Knives
2. 5.

An Ivory Pocket Book
. 8.

  2.13.

Chas Smith—Gloves

6 pr Mens best riding Gloves drawn Tan, stichd Tops @ 21d.
.10. 6

   .10. 6

Jane Backhouse

1 dozn fine Stock Tape
. 9.

A Box
. 4. 6

   .13. 6

Ann Dennis

150 Squares best London Crown Glass containing 103½ foot @ 11d.
4.14.10

A Case to Pack
. 2. 6

  4.17. 4

Philip Bell—Upholstry

70 yds of Chintz Blew plate Cotton furniture
11. 7. 6

54 yds Scotch Linnen to Line Ditto
2.18. 6

A Beach Bedstead colourd all over, Castors, a strong Sacking Case Slips a Compass Rod, Brass Caps & neat plain Mah[ogan]y foot Posts, & a neat cut Cornish
4.14. 6

Making a Blue Chintz of yr Cotton Lined
1.16.

7 Yds of blue Gard. figrd Lace 7 Yds of white Hessan to line the head and Tester Ring Tape and paper to the Top
1. 6.

Making 11/4 Quilt of the above Cotton on one side Scotch Cloth on the other
1. 1.

2 Neat cut window Cornishes
.18.

Making two Festoon Window Curtains & covg the Cornishes
.12.

3 dozn of Lace to ditto, Leads & Owees, 28 Yds of worstd and thr[ea]d Line 2 Tossells, 4 brass Cloak pins studs & Curtn hooks
.18.

2 Wilton Ingrain bedside Carpets
1.16.

2 Neat Mah[og]a[n]y Pillar & claw fire Screens India Paper on both Sides
2. 2.

A Neat Mahay Marlb: Couch with a Roll head & Leathr Casters to ditto, stufft up in the best mannr & covd with black Leathr, quilted, best princes Metal Nails, Boulster & 2 pillows, filld wt. Goose Feathr
7.  .

50 Yds of the best Royal Matting Yd wide
3. 6. 8

A Bedscrew
. 3. 6

A Large packing case for the above things
1. 8.

2 fine large Check Mattrasses filld with hair
6.16. 6

dble Matting of Ditto
. 3.

 48. 7. 2

Edwd Neale & Son

1.0.0 Lucerne—will sow 10 Acres
5. 5.

8 Bushels Rye Grass @ 4/
1.12.

2 Casks
. 8.

  7. 5.

Sir,

For yr Governmt another Year 2 Bushl Rye Grass sows 1 Acre 4 Bushl St Foine sows 1 Acre—but of this have sent none as the time of sowing it is in April or May. What we have sent is only by guess as you mention no particular quantitys

Chas Lawrence—Taylor

Makg yr mixture Suit, & Breeches, the Waistt full trimd
1. 1.

11 Yds of white Silk Sarge to your Suit & @ 5/2
2.16.10

3½ of rich Silver wier Coat Buttons @ 7/
1. 4. 6

4½ of Silver to yr Waistt & 2 pr of Breeches @ 3/6
.15. 9

1 pair Silver Garters
. 7.

Sowing Silk and Silk Twist and Buckram & Canvas to Suit &
. 9.

Hair Cloths and Covering & Wading to Coat & Hr Cloaths to WtCoat
. 6.

fine pillow fustion for yr 2 pair of Breeches Lin[in]gs & Pockets
. 9.

Fine Demity to Waistcoat body Lining and Sleeves
. 4.

Glazd Linnen to Sleeves & Pockets 3/ Box 3/6
. 6. 6

  7.18. 7

Leaver Legg

5¼ Yds best Superfine Cloth—Pompadoier in grn @ 21/
5.10. 3

  5.10. 3

Richd Farrer &ca

   3 Salvers 18/ 1 Top piece 2/
1.  .

   1 dozn Sullibub Glasses 5/6 2 dozn Jellys 8/
.13. 6

   1 dozn Sweet Meat ditto 3/ 2 dozn Baskets 12/
.15.

12 diamamond Water glasses & 12 Saucers
.14.

Box
. 3.

1 pair Branches and Candlesticks with flowers
1.10.

1 pair ditto ditto
1.12.

1 pair Seasons, & 1 pair Music’s figures for Ditto
1. 1.

1 Sweet meat stand 10/
.10.

Box
. 3.

  8. 1. 6

£130.19. 7

Entry out, Searcher’s Fees, & Shipg Charges 1.8.6

Freight, primage & Bills of Lading 3.19.
5. 7. 6

Premio on £150 Insurd at 7 Gs. prCt & policy
11. 5.

Commissions @ 2½ prCt
3.13. 9

151. 5.10

Errors Excepted pr Robt Cary & Co.


Title: From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 26 August 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Capel & Osgood Hanbury

Gentn
Mount Vernon 26th Augt 1759

I shall draw upon you in a few days to the Amount of about £150 in two Setts of Exchange: the one payable to Messrs Champe and Hunter of Virginia and the other to Mr Richd Washington of London. I did not think it amiss to give you this earliest advice (via Whitehaven) of my Intentions but should not have doubted your Acceptance of my Bills without it as I in a former of the 12th June advertisd you of my Marriage with Mrs Martha Custis Relict of Danl P. Custis Esqr. deceasd—by which I am empowerd to draw for the Estates money in your hands. I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Servt

Go: Washington


Title: Cash Accounts, September 1759
From: Washington, George
To:

[September 1759]

Contra

Septr—
By Mr Mercer for Settling Adminn Accts Colo. Custiss Este
£25. 0.0

By Brents Negroes
0. 5.6

By Mr Mercers Ditto
0. 2.6

2—
By Peter Greenlaw
7. 0.0

By 3 plain Iron’s
0. 3.0

By given away 10/
0.10.0

20—
By Thos Smith—for his Wife’s Right of Dower to Mrs Gists Plantation
4. 0.0

By Club at Mrs Chews
0. 2.6

By Charles Washington in full of all Accts
8.19.5

By Colo. Bassetts Abram. 5/.  Mr Greens Boson 1/3
0. 6.3

26—
By Jno. Summer’s in full
4. 0.0

28—
By a Sorrell Horse bought of H. Peake
4.10.0

By 6 head of Cattle at Jno. Peakes Sale
6. 5.0

By Exps. in getting a Mare from Fredg
0. 9.0


Title: Indenture with John Askew, 1 September 1759
From: Washington, George,Askew, John
To:

[1 September 1759]

Articles of Agreement made Indented the First day of September One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty nine Between John Askew of the County of Fairfax Joiner of the one part and George Washington of the said County Gentleman of the other part Sheweth that the said John Askew for the Consideration’s herein after mentioned doth oblige himself to work true and faithfully at his trade as a joiner for the said George Washington during the Space of one whole year to begin from the date hereof—that is to say he shall work duely from Sun rise to Sun set allowing proper times only for Eating and if he shall loose any time at his said work either by negligence Sickness or private business of his own the days and hours so lost is to be made up by him the said John Askew at the Years end. And the said John Askew doth further oblige himself by this writing to work at all times and in all places where the business of the said George Washington shall require and that he will use his best endeavour’s to instruct in the art of his trade any Negro or Negroes which the said George Washington shall cause to work with him during the twelve month—In consideration of these

Services well and truely performd, the said George Washington doth promise on his part to let the said John Askew and his wife live at a Plantation adjoining commonly known by the name of Norths without paying Rent, that he will find the said John good & wholesome provisions while he is at work, and at the expiration of the twelve month fully compleated agreable to the true Intent hereof pay him the Currt Sum of Twenty five pounds Lawful money of Virginia—For the just performance of all and each of these Articles the said parties have interchangeably put their hands and Seals the day & year first above written.

John Askew

Go: Washington

Seald and Deliver’d in the Presence of
John Alton

Jno. Foster


Title: To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 5 September 1759 [letter not found]
From: Stewart, Robert
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Robert Stewart, 5 Sept. 1759. On 28 Sept. Stewart wrote to GW: “On the 5th of this Month I wrote you.”


Title: From George Washington to John Graham, 10 September 1759 [letter not found]
From: Washington, George
To: Graham, John

Letter not found: to John Graham, 10 Sept. 1759. On 14 Sept. Graham wrote to GW: “I received your letter of the 10th Inst.”


Title: To George Washington from John Graham, 14 September 1759
From: Graham, John
To: Washington, George

Sir
Quantico 14th Septr 1759

I received your letter of the 10th Inst. and have Sent you a Copy of Spencers Deed to Osborn the original Deed, is marked in the Record, delivered ⟨mutilated⟩ Wade. There are no Deeds Recorded in this ⟨mutilated⟩fice from Spencer to French or Manley, I ⟨h⟩ave Searched for them very carefully, I apprehend they may have [been] purchassed from Some person that Spencer conveyed to, tho’ we cannot feind any Such conveyance.
You have a true Copy of the courses of Harrisons land from the record, we examined them when Copied, and have again,

compared them, with the paragraph in your letter, the course is thence 70 d. Wt 22 po. without mentioning whether it is No. or South, I hope this will come Safe; my fee for the Copies is not yet due—I am with respect Sir Your most Obedt Servt

John Graham


Title: To George Washington from George Mercer, 16 September 1759
From: Mercer, George
To: Washington, George

Dear Sir
Winchester Septr 16th 1759

I know you will excuse Me for addressing you on so coarse so common Paper, when I assure you tis the best our Town affords.
Had your Favor reached my Hands a few Minutes later, I shoud have lost this Opportunity of acknowledging the Receipt of it; for my Express was already mounted.
You are not the first Person that has been deceived by the Gentlemen in Black; but whoever gave you such Information must have done it with a premeditated Design to lye, or something

as bad; for I really have not been at Prince William Court these three Years, nor have I even crossed the Blue Ridge since last June; but Sir I allow it a sufficient Apology for your not writing, as I coud say many Things to you that I can not put upon Paper, & in particular concerning the Land.
Your Proposal concerning an Entry on the Ohio I am fully of Opinion will answer: indeed it is what I had before determined upon, and am much rejoiced that you propose to be a Partner in the Scheme. I had obtained Leave to be at Williamsburg on the Meeting of the Assembly in November, with no other View, than that of securing to myself so much Land, as I was entitled to by the Governor’s Proclamation; which allowed Us such Terms that We cant possibly lose by it—and as I determine to go to England this Year, I thought it proper to settle that Point before I embarked it must be of Service in Time to come—Lands on the Ohio will be valuable. You may bid Me do any Thing you think necessary till We meet at Williamsburg, no Doubt you will be there on the Assembly, then We may surely secure it to ourselves. Gist I believe knows the Country well, therefore woud be a good Partner. I have the Copy of all our Entries We made with Gist now by Me—he told Me, he had entered Them for Us: but I know not whether it woud be of any Advantage to Us, if he has done it. As We shall meet at Williamsburg, we will leave no Stone unturned to secure to ourselves this Land. I cant think of any previous Step that will be necessary, but shoud any occur to You, that I can execute pray inform Me of Them. As to News—
All is well and quiet on the Ohio—Single Persons come from Pittsburg down. The Savages come in to the General in great Numbers begging Remission of their Sins, and Forgiveness for past Offences. The General told Me, there were sometimes 1000 there at once—The French, you certainly must have heard, have evacuated and burnt their Forts at Venango—Presque Isle, and Le Bœufe, and retired to Detroit.
We are going to build a very respectable Fort at Pittsburg, of Brick, to contain 4000 Men on an Emergency, and capable of holding out against Shells as ’tis to be covered.
Bullitt is immediately to appear before 12 & a President—as tis generally supposed poor Tom was intimidated (to use his own Word) when his Party was attacked—God knows whether

he was or not but he made his Escape—with a Guard for his sacred Person, in a most precipitate Manner, consisting of about 60 of his Men—The Remainder were almost cut to Pieces—there were only 60 of the Enemy, and Bullitts Command consisted of 100 Rank & File—but he took Care of 60 of Them—21 or 22 of the remaining 40 were killed, & tho. they were so hotly engaged, Bullitt never returned to the Charge—notwithstanding the most earnest Entreaties of his Men—Thus the Story is told by the two Officers whom Bullitt left in the Scrape—I hope it will turn out better, but I always supposed Bullitt more capable of being commanded, than commanding—I have thought him brave—but this Tale tells badly.
I am much obliged to Mr & Mrs C—for their good Wishes, tho. I must confess I am not sorry they were disappointed in their Expectations—I can, as Affairs have turned out, and I am safely recovered, offer no other Apology to Them for not being so complaisant as they expected—than as one of the Family had once deceived Me, I thought it was my Turn then to take the Advantage—tho. I really cant charge myself with ever promising either of Them that I woud die—therefore they have nothing to object to Me upon the Occasion.
Pray Sir dont think for what I have said concerning them, that my Acknowledgements to you on this Head are less sincere for I really am obliged to you here, as well as for your Compliments on my late Appointment—You wish Me much, when you desire I may derive as much Honor & Profit, as Fatigue and Anxiety from my Office. I shall do my utmost that the General may not be deceived in the Confidence he has reposed in Me—but no Profit I can make, can equal the Trouble I am obliged to go thro.—tis true I coud not be deceived in the Affair, as I well knew the Duty—and I say ’twas against my Inclination that I entered upon ⟨it⟩ but I found a Refusal woud disoblige the General &c. s⟨o⟩ I acquiesed, but never did my Mind war more against ⟨mutilated⟩ Hands, than when I received the Commission—As I have got it tho., I must do the best—I’ll take Care not to err thro. Neglect. Indeed I found if I woud not concern myself that no Part of the Trade woud come to this Colony, and I believe it was in Consequence of some Letters I had take⟨n⟩ upon Me to write the General concerning the Roads Tra⟨mutilated⟩ that I was ordered up to have a Conference with him.

If you have Wheat Rye Corn or Oats, Cattle, Sheep or Hogs to dispose of there is a Ready & great Market for Them here, and will continue for two or three Weeks—till we lay in our Winter’s Stock.
While I was on the So. Branch a Man brought in your grey Horse, and upon my Return here Yesterday, waited on Me & offered to swear he was mine, nay even reminded of the Place & Time I bought him, and that I had paid so many Pieces of Money which I took out of my left Pocket with my right Hand for him; indeed I coud scarce persuade him I had Transferred my Right & Title of him to you—I wanted him to take him down, but he woud not, so I tipped the Fellow a Crown, & shall send him down to your Quarter to Day by a soldier.
Capt. Waggener is here in his Way to Williamsburg, from whence he expects to return a Field Officer.
If I shoud write you often, & such long Letters, I believe you woud soon desire a Stop to Them, but I have wrote on many Points the next shall be shorter. Even here tho. I must add one Line ⟨mutilated⟩ beg youl present your Lady with my ⟨mutilated⟩ and assure you as I have often before that I am Dear Colonel Your Friend & very hble Servant

G. Mercer


Title: From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 20 September 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Capel & Osgood Hanbury

Gentn
Mount Vernon 20th September 1759

On the 12th June last I wrote you fully, and addressd Copies to which be referd. and gave you advice in a Letter of the 26th Ulto Via Whitehaven of my Intention’s of drawing on you to the amount of about £150 since which I have passd those Bills (viz.) one sett payable to Messrs Champe and Hunter of Virginia for Ninety nine pounds Sterling dated the 10th Instt and another sett for fifty pounds bearing date with this Letter payable to Mr Richd Washington of London[.] I don’t doubt their meeting with due honour—shoud any thing occur I will again write by this Falls Shipping, at present I have the honour to be Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

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Title: From George Washington to James Gildart, 20 September 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Gildart, James

Sir,
Mount Vernon 20th Septr 1759

I wrote fully to you on the 12th June last and Addressd Copies to which be referd.
Annexd is an Invoice of such Goods as are wanted for the Estate of Colo. Custis, which please to send as there directed; I beg of you to be careful in the Choice as we sometimes for want of it suffer vile Impositions from the dishonesty of the Tradesmen. I am Sir, Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

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Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 20 September 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Mount Vernon Virga 20th Septr 1759.

This will make the 4th Letter I have wrote you since my Marriage with Mrs Martha Custis—the two first servd to cover Invoices of such Goods as I wanted and to advise you at the same time of the change in her affairs, and how necessary it woud be to address for the future, all your Letters which relate to the Estate of the deceasd Colo. Custis to me. The last tended only to order Insurance on 15 Hhds Tobo pr the Fair American.
I shall now endeavour to take notice of such parts of your Letters as require answering, and then advise what is needful to be done as matters are circumstancd at present. In regard to the former there remains no great deal to be said unless you will permit me to condemn your premature Sale of the Estates Tobo by Whelden in which I shoud have thought a little delay woud have appeard absolutely advisable for another Reason besides that mentiond by you of an additional Duty taking place and that was the great demand of Tobo and rising price in the

Country of which you coud not be unadvised from your Corrispondants in Virginia—However I dare say you did for the best and we must therefore be satisfied; and in this place, I must beg leave to offer you my thanks for the opposition you made to this duty—had all your Brethren in the Trade merited our acknowledgements in the same manner this Duty, probably, might never have been laid. I remark the pains you take to shew the Impropriety of paying the Duty of the Estates Tobo—when money is wanting it cant be expected, but when a Sum lies in your hands it shoud certainly be applied that way as far as it will go—I likewise observe the difficulties you have met with in settling for the Interest of the Bank Stock, but I hope that is now over, unless any part or the whole shoud (when a division of the Estate is made) require transferring, and then timely notice will be given, but till this happen’s it may be receivd and placed to the Estates Credit in the usual manner.
From this time it will be requisite, that you shou’d raise three Accounts—One for me, another for the Estate, and a third for Miss Martha Parke Custis—or, if you think it more eligable, and I believe it will, make me Debtor on my own Account for Jno. Parke Custis—and for Miss Martha Parke Custis, as each will have their part of the Estate Assignd them this fall, and the whole remain under my management whose particular care it shall be to distinguish always either by Letter or Invoice for whom Tobacco’s are Shipd & for whose use Goods are Imported in order to prevent any Mistakes arising—The Estates Credits now in Your hands may be applied towards answering the whole Drafts that have been, and shall be made this Year—and it must appear very plain from my former Letters, as well as what is here said how necessary it is to send regular Accts Currt that by comparing them with the Books here satisfactory Settlements may, from time to time, be made to our General Court.
The Tobacco pr the Fair American will make its appearance I fear in a very irregular manner—Captn Talman first engagd it to be sent by the Cary, then by the Randolph, and being disappointed in both I had to seek for a conveyance myself and by mere good luck got it on board Captn Thompson but not till I had first been at the trouble & expence of Carting it across from York to James River for his Craft to take it in. The Vessel

being upon the point of Sailing at that time a Gentn at Norfolk where She lay promisd to receive the Bills of Lading and send them by different oppertunitys under Cover to you but loosing the Memm wrote to me a Month afterwards for fresh directions which I suppose did not reach him till sometime after the Vessel had Sail’d⟨.⟩ I shall endeavour to put what Tobo I can on board the Cary as I understand She is to wait for the New Crop—it will be needless I am perswaded to bespeak your best care in the Sales of it as you must be sensible the present high prices of Tobo gives us room to expect extraordinary returns for this Years produce so early Shipd.
I am possessd of several Plantations on this River (Potok) and the fine Lands on Shannondoah, and shoud be glad if you woud ingenuously tell me what prices I might expect from you for Tobaccos made thereon of the same Seed of that of the Estate & managd in every respect in the same manner as the best Tobo on James & York River’s are—I ask this question purely for my own private information & my Shipping of these Crops will be governd in a great measure by the answer You may give therefore you will excuse me I hope if I again desire that you take some pains to be exactly informd because shoud the prices afterwards differ from those of the Estate I might possibly think myself deceivd and be disgusted accordingly.
Pleasd to send the Goods containd in the Inclosd Invoice and charge them as there directed I flatter myself that particular care will be taken in choosing them the want of which give some Tradesmen an oppertunity of Imposing upon us vilely⟨.⟩ the Coarse Goods for the Estates use are orderd from Liverpool this year—all but the Stockings and these I beg you will cause to be sent from Glasgow in the usual manner and number directed to the care of Mr Joseph Valentine—or, person managing the Estates business York River. I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

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Title: From George Washington to Richard Washington, 20 September 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Washington, Richard

Dear Sir,
Mount Vernon 20th September 1759

Inclosd you will receive a Bill (promisd in my last of the 7th May) which please to receive and place to my Credit—Since mine of the above date your agreable favour of the 26th March covering Invoice of Sundries pr the desire is come to hand as has the Goods also in good Order which is more than most of the Importers by that Ship can boast great part of her Cargoe being damagd—thrô the Negligence tis said of the Captain.
My Brother is safe arrivd but little benifitted in point of Health by his Trip to England. The longing desire, which for many years I have had of visiting the great Matrapolis of that Kingdom is not in the least abated by his prejudices because I think the Small share of Health he enjoyd while there must have given a Sensible Check to any pleasures he might figure to himself, and woud render any place Irksome—but, I am now tied by the Leg and must set Inclination aside.

The Scale of Fortune in America is turnd greatly in our favour, and Success is become the boon Companion of our Fortunate Generals—Twoud be folly in me to attempt particularising their Actions since you receive Accts in a Channel so much more direct than from hence.
I am now I beleive fixd at this Seat with an agreable Consort for Life and hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experiencd amidst a wide and bustling World—I thank you heartily for your Affectionate Wishes—Why wont you give me an occasion of congratulating you in the same manner? none woud do it with more cordiality, & true sincerity than Dear Sir Yr Most Obedt & Obligd Servt

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