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

[October 1759]

Cash

Octr 7—
To Cash Receivd of Jno. Berry for Carpenter’s Work
£3.16. 0

28—
To Cards
0. 7. 6

Contra

Octr 3—
By Negroe Doctr 25/—Cards 13/
1.18. 0

17—
By Thomas Bishop—£5 10s.—Ditto gave him £3 2s. 6d.
8.12. 6

By Tavern Expenses 15/7½—Leather Breeches £1.1.6
1.17. 1 1/2

By a Tierce of Sugar
14.18. 7

By a Begger 2/6—Mrs Washington £1.15.6
1.18. 0

22—
By Exps. at Dumfries 4/6—Ferriages at Occoqn 3/6
0. 8. 0

By Expences at Allans 15/7½—Ferry at Fredks. 5/
1. 0. 7 1/2

By Mr Allan’s Servt 2/6—(24) Exps. at Julian’s 16/10½
.19. 4 1/2

25—
By Exps. at Caroline Ct House 5/7½—Do at Hubbards 21/6
1. 7. 1 1/2

By a Servant 1/—Ferriages at Dansies 12/
0.13. 0

26—
By Wine at Ditto 2/6—Mrs Washington—40/
2. 2. 6

28—
By Cards 10/.  By Barber 5/—Club 3/1½—Cards 28/9
2. 6.10 1/2


Title: To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 1 October 1759
From: Capel & Osgood Hanbury
To: Washington, George

Esteem’d Friend
London Ocr 1: 1759

We are favour’d with Thine of June 12th, informing Us of Thy Marriage with our friend Martha Custis, upon which circumstance we heartily congratulate You both, & wish You a great d⟨ea⟩l of happyness. We observe Thy directions in regard to our addressing our Letters in relation to Coll Custis’s Estate, which we shall do accordingly.
We are sorry the Sales of the 28 Hhds Tobacco ⅌ the King of Prusia was not satisfactory, assure Thee that consid⟨e⟩ring the Quality, we thought we sold Them very well, and was told by the Buyer that they were not near so good as those sent Ca⟨mutilated⟩ indeed it was with no small difficulty that we ob⟨mutilated⟩e price we did, please to observe that many of Them were light, which Hhds paying the same charges as heavier, reduces the produce considerably, & we are sorry to say the Quality of Those ⅌ the Anna were far from what we could wish, owing to their being put up in too high case, and that Crop of Tobacco in General was but ordinary—inclosed comes Acct Sales for Them wch ⟨we hope we mutilated⟩ of These ⟨are⟩ too light, indeed much lighter then we could wish’d, No. 2 was exceeding bad, & it gave us a good deal of trouble to get the price it sold for, the Buyers informs us that they were put up in too high a case, which we mention again for Thy government—It will give Us great pleasure to receive Thy Consignments ⅌ the ⟨Fleet⟩ & we a⟨mutilated⟩ our endeavours shall not be wanting ⟨mutilated⟩ entrusted to Our care, This now forwards Acct Curr⟨ent mutilated⟩ hope will be found right, if otherwise please to note it, & the Error shall be caref⟨ully⟩ examin’d into, Thee cannot well imagine what troub⟨le⟩ we have had in the settlement of the Salvage of the Anna, She being retook by Three privateers, each of which had its manag⟨t⟩ but we look upon it, that considering the time she was in the Possession of the French, we ⟨adjusted it as⟩ well as could be, and indeed had the concern been all our own, we could not have done better—the chief News at present, or what is mostly talkd of, is the intended invasion from the French, to be sure they have assembled a large Body of Troops together, to embark on board Transports, but when they really think of attempting it, is very uncertain, n⟨o⟩ doubt but any

probabillity of Their landing ⟨i⟩n our ⟨mutilated w⟩ill put us here in great confution, all the necess⟨mutilated⟩s for preventing it hath been & are taken, which they must certainly be acquainted with it, & which we hope will make Them laid the plan aside—Concludes with regard—Thy Assured Friends

Capel & Osgood Hanbury


Title: Subscription for Maurice Pound, October 1759
From: Washington, George
To:

Fairfax County October 1759

Maurice Pound a Native of Germany having setled at Colchester in the said County about three years since on two Lotts which he purchased (one of which he has improved according to Law) and planted a Vineyard on them; during which time he has lived at his own Expence without any profit from his Vineyard having been much retarded in his Undertaking by these two last dry summers, & having one of his Lots yet to save by building the legal Improvements; with a winepress and other

Conveniencys, proposes to any Gentlemen who are desirous to help him, & encourage & promote an Undertaking likely to be so usefull, & beneficial to this Colony to oblige himself to improve his other Lott, & to mortgage both the said Lotts to any Gentlemen who will advance him one hundred pounds Current money the Interest of which he proposes to pay yearly & the principal sum Advanced within five years, & the whol time to prosecute with Industry all measures possible to bring his Vineyard to perfection, (a thing not [to] be done at once) of which he has a most encouraging prospect if seasons will permit. N.B. the Lotts to be mortgaged to any one or more of the Subscribers in Trust for all—I have known Maurice Pound ever since he lived in Colchester he has the Character of a very honest industrious man: I have been frequently in his Vinyard upon which he has ⟨mutilated⟩ an infinite deal of Labour, & I realy believe if our Soil & Climate is capable of producing good wine that he will, wth proper Encouragement, bring it to perfecti[o]n tho’ I don’t think less then £150 will do—as I am Sensible that his present Circumstances are too low to carry on his undertaking without Assistance & from my Opinion of the Intigrity a[nd] Capacity of the man, I will advance him ten Pounds upon the above mentioned Terms & I will readily join with the other Subscribers in making up whatever Sum they shall judge necessary for the purpose.

G: Mason

I will advance to Maurice Pound on the above terms & for the said purposes £15:0:0:

Cha. ⟨Green⟩

I will advance ten pounds for Morrice Pound on the Terms above mentioned.

Da[nie]l French

I will advance to maurice pound on the above Terms and for the purposes aforesaid Twenty pound Cu[rrency]

G:W: Fairfax

I will advance for Maurice Pound on Condition before exprest ten pounds Virginia Currency

Spence Gray⟨son⟩

I will advance for Maurice pound on the before mentioned terms and for the said purposes Eighteen pounds Virginia Currency.

Ben: Grayson

I Will advance Maurice pound Fifteen pounds on the same Terms with the other Subscribers.

Go: Washington


Title: Report to the House of Burgesses, 10 November 1759
From: Washington, George
To: House of Burgesses

[Williamsburg, 10 November 1759]

Mr Washington reported, That the Committee to whom the Petition of Daniel M’Neil was referred had examined into the Allegations thereof, and found them to be true; and had come

to a Resolution thereupon, which he read in his Place, and afterwards delivered in at the Table, where the same was again twice read, and agreed to by the House. . . .


Title: To George Washington from Richard Washington, 22 November 1759 [letter not found]
From: Washington, Richard
To: Washington, George

 Letter not found: from Richard Washington, 22 Nov. 1759. On 10 Aug. 1760 GW wrote to Richard Washington: “ . . . acknowledge the Receipt of your favours of the 22 Novr 12th Decr.”


Title: From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 25 November 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Capel & Osgood Hanbury

Gentn
Virga 25th Novr 1759.

On Board a Ship of Mr Mills’s (Virga) calld the Deliverance I have Shipd 20 Hhds Tobo for your House which please to Insure in the usual manner—and sell to the best Advantage of Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 25 November 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Virginia 25th Novr 1759

Sometime this Week I expect to get on board the Cary for your House, Fifty Hogsheads Tobo of my own and Jno. Parke Custis’s, which please to Insure in the usual manner—I shall also by the same Ship send you ten or 12 Hhds more if I can get them on board in time, but this I believe will be Impractacable if Captn Talman uses that dispatch in Loading which he now has in his power to do. I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Ser⟨vt⟩

Go: Washington

P.S. My Goods pr Captn Yates are arrivd in James River, and I thank you for your deligence in sending them.


Title: From George Washington to John Didsbury, 30 November 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Didsbury, John

Sir
Virginia 30th Novr 1759

The first Shoes which I desird might be made by you for me on Colo. Baylors Last are come in, and fit me tolerably well except that some of them are (if any thing) rather too short—as I imagine you will now be able to suit my foot exactly I beg you will for the future observe the following Directions in making the Shoes.
Let the hind Quarters always be high & very short so that they may Buckle high up on the Instep—the Heels midling high also.
Never more make any of Dog leather except one pair of Pumps in a Cargoe (which let be very neat) unless you send better Leather than they were made of before—for the two pair of Shoes scarcely lasted me twice as many days & had very fair wearing. If I shoud find occasion to alter at any time these Directions you shall be timely advisd of it—at present please to send me

2 pair strong Shoes
1 pr dble Channel Pumps

2 pr neat & fine Do
1 pr very neat turnd Ditto

Mr Cary will pay the Cost & I am Sir Yr Very Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 30 November 1759
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Virginia 30th Novr 1759.

By the George and  Captn Richardson and Nicks who Saild with the Fleet in September last I sent Invoices of such Goods as were wanting for myself Estate &ca but knowing that the Latter unfortunately founderd at Sea soon after her Departure from Virginia and that the former may probably have sufferd by that Storm or some other accident by which means my Letters &ca woud miscarry I take this oppertunity by way of Bristol of addressing Copies of them, and over & above the things there wrote for to desire the favour of you to send me a neat Grait (for Coal or small Faggots) in the newest taste and of a Size to fit a Chimney abt 3 feet wide and two Deep—and a fender suited to Ditto—Steel I believe are most usd at present—also send me a New Market great Coat with a loose hood to it made of Blew Drab or broad Cloth with Straps before according to the present taste—let it be made of such Cloth as will turn a good Shower of Rain and made long, and fit in other respects for a Man full 6 feet high & proportionably made—possibly the Measure sent for my other Clothes may be a good d[i]rection in these—Please to add also to the things Orderd for Mrs Dandridge 12 yds of Silver col[ore]d Armozeen or Ducape & cause it to be packd up with the Rest of her things chargd with them &ca.
Five Days ago I dropt a Letter at Williamsburg, to take the first Conveyance to you, desiring Insurance on 50 Hhds Tobo pr the Cary since then I have got 4 more Inspected & all on Float ready to deliver at the Ships side[.] yo. will therefore Insure that quantity and dispose of them in the best manner for Our Interest. If Captn Talman uses that Dispatch in Loading of his Vessell which I am sure he now has in his power to do this Tobo wl come to a very good Market I hope.

It is almost as much trouble and expence getting Goods from any of the Rivers round to Potomack as the Original Charges of Shipping them amounts to, unless they are committed to the charge of very careful Captains who has an Interest in forwarding I shoud be glad therefore if you woud take the oppertunity of some Ship to that River of sending my Goods for the Future.
Your favour of the 6th Augt I have had the pleasure of receiving, and acknowledge myself particularly obligd to you for yr polite Congratulations on my Marriage, as I likewise am for the Dispatch of my Goods—I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


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

[December 1759]

Cash

Decr 2—
To Cash of the Estate recd of Mr Holt for Damagd Linnen in Captn Hooper
£15.11.7 1/2

31—
To Cash of Mr Bryan Fairfax
21. 0.0

Contra

Dec. 2—
By Exps. at Newcastle 18/9—Colo. Baylors 3/3
1. 2.0

By James Allan for Mahagony Stands
3.10.0

By Peter Greenlaw £1.10—Cards £2.6
3.16.0

By Jno. Ballendine Iron—41½Pistoles
44.12.3

By Jno. Foster’s Wages &ca £13—Jno. Askew £7
20. 0.0

By Potatoes & Oysters 11/3
0.11.3

27—
By Cash paid William Poole
7. 5.0

28—
By Ditto paid Joseph Javens for 6 head of Cattle
7. 0.0

By Mr Thornton’s Skipper
0. 2.6

6—
By Cash pd Mr James Hunter on acct of Colo. Custis Estate
7.10.3

By a piece of Hummums
4.13.0


Title: To George Washington from Andrew Burnaby, 4 January 1760
From: Burnaby, Andrew
To: Washington, George

Sir,
Williamsburg Jan. 4. 1760.

I arrived here yesterday & take the first opportunity of writing to thank you & Mrs Washington for the many civilities I received at Mt Vernon. It gives me some concern when I consider the obligations I lie under in Virginia to think how I shall be able to return them: indeed I am afraid it will only be in my power to retain a proper sense of them; which I always shall do.
I have the pleasure to acquaint you that your friends in these parts are all well. They inquire after you, particularly the Govr

and Mrs Fauquier, and seem to regret very much that Mrs Washington & yourself are so far from Williamsburg.
We have little or no news—there having been no late arrivals either from Engd or the Northward. The Speaker was married I believe last week: on which occasion nothing appeared but youth and gaiety. The new married Couple are now gone to their seat in the country. As a counterpart to this, I find that Mrs Burwell of James River was buried a few days ago; that Geo. Braxton has been dying of a pleurisy; but is now something better; I believe out of danger. Yr much obliged & humble Servt

A. Burnaby


Title: To George Washington from John Carlyle, 8 January 1760
From: Carlyle, John
To: Washington, George

Sir
Alexa. Jany 8th 1760

We have Try’d your Stilliards at 56 112 & 168 & beleive them to be As True as Any Stilliards are, the fault Is not In the Stilliards Its where you Suspected it to be.
Mr Dalton Spar’s you Sum butter; I Lett Coll Fairfax have half of mine Abt A Month Ago Mrs Carlyle Joyns In Compts to You the Ladys & family & am Yr Very Hble Sert

John Carlyle

P.S. Yr Man brings the Wmburg papers.


Title: To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 25 January 1760
From: Stewart, Robert
To: Washington, George

Dear Sir
Williamsbg Janry 25th 1760

When I recd the Inclos’d I propos’d to have done myself the pleasure of delivering it with my own hands, and in person return’d my unfeign’d thanks for your Freindly & Affectionate Epistle by Finnie, which had taken the Tour of Fort Cumberland, Pittsbg Legonier &Ca before I recd it at Winchester, But deferr’d waiting on you at Mount Vernon till after I had visited this City for the two following reasons vizt 1st Colo. Byrd was of opinion that your prior applications in my behalf back’d by his subsequent ones in the most pressing Terms would take place of any he had made in favour of Colo. P— 2d as Finnie for many reasons had little room to expect a continuation of his, he would take a small matter for it, tho’ I had no opinion of the 1st, the 2d carried a shew of probability, therefore hasten’d hither, But found both equally ill grounded, and learn’d that I have no chance happen what will, as 4 others besides P— were mention’d as having a prior Right; so that after having spent much Time & thought in concerting a thousand different Plans for steering thro’ the remainder of an unfortunate Life I find myself reduc’d to the sad alternative of being & continuing a Sub[altern] (than which nothing can to me be more horrible) or running some risque of making my best Friends suffer by using their aid towards the Purchass of a Compy, and as ten thousand concurring circumstances Demonstrates the Noble

motives that actuated you to make me the Generous offer of your Freindly assistance I concluded ⟨mutilated⟩ be the most eligible I have therefore wrote to Colo. Byrd & to Majr Gates to give in my Name at Head Quarters for the Purchass of a Compy or Capt. Lieuty and in case either should come as low down amongst the Subs. as me to transmit me the earliest, Intelligence of it, in which Event Colo. Hunter has engag’d to negotiate the money part provided he can have proper Security of being soon reimburs’d. I have told them I would prefer the Capt. Lieuty as Rank is the principal Object of my ambition and as I could accomplish the Payment of it without the aid of Freinds, But if good Fortune of which I have hitherto enjoy’d so small share should bring a Compy as low down in the Line I beg you’ll be so good as to Inclose me a Letter for Colo. Hunter informing him that in case I can have an oppy of Purchassing a Compy you will pay him £300 Sterg which my dear Colo. is a great Sum But as my future Happiness depends upon it and when I solemnly Declare which I now do by every thing that’s Sacred to a Christian and an Officer that no method consistent with Honour will be unessay’d to reemburse you the Principle & Interest as soon as possible and to prevent your suffering in case I should fall I would fain hope you will not hesitate to grant this great favour of which and the manifold others you have conferr’d upon me I shall ever retain the most Just and gratefull sense—I would say much on this Subject but my Heart is full—I fear I’m too unreasonable.
Please Direct for me at Petersburgh where I Recruit I’m told the Assembly will sit in about six weeks hence against wch Time I shall be here to wait your arrival Be so good as to present my Respectfull Complemts to your Lady and allow me to Subscribe myself With the highest Esteem and most perfect Regard My Dear Colonel Your unalterably Affectionate & Most Obliged hble Servant.

Robert Stewart


Title: Cash Accounts, February 1760
From: Washington, George
To:

[February 1760]

Cash

Feby 27—
To Wm Nationss horse destraind on & sold for
£ 5. 0.0

To Cash at Cards
3. 1.0

Contra

Feby 4—
By 37 pistoles and a Shilling pd for 100 Barrl Corn
40. 2.8

By freight of Ditto from Port Tobo a 1/
5. 0.0

By Overseers Expences in fetching it
0.17.6

9—
By a Man that drove down my Hogs
0.10.0

16—
By Cards 7/. gave away 5/. pd Mr Welden for my Seal 43/
2.15.0

24—
By 4 Horse Collars 6/3—Fish 5/
0.11.3

25—
By Cash paid Mr Wm Triplet for Brick Work
50. 0.0

28—
By ditto paid Peter Greenlaw in full
9. 2.6

do
By Purnell Newbold for 3,000 Shings.

         @ 22/6 Maryld Cur.
         £3. 7.6

         1 Nest of Wood Ware
         15.

         14¾ Bees Wax @ 1/6
          1. 2.1 1/2

         5. 4.7 1/2

4. 2.7 1/2


Title: From George Washington to Robert Stewart, 20 February 1760 [letter not found]
From: Washington, George
To: Stewart, Robert

 Letter not found: to Robert Stewart, 20 Feb. 1760. On 8 Mar. Stewart wrote to GW: “. . . your’s of the 20th Ulto which I yesterday had the infinite pleasure of receiving.”


Title: Cash Accounts, March 1760
From: Washington, George
To:

[March 1760]

Contra

Mar. 1—
By Christr Hardwick
£ 15. 0.0

3—
By 100 Bushels of Oats @ 1/6
7.10.0

By a Line for Muddy hole Quarter
0. 3.6

17—
By Mrs Washington in Cut Bits &ca
3. 8.0

18—
By Wm Lodwick
0.10.0

By Dinner & Club at Mrs Chews
0. 2.6

Gave away 1/3
1.3

22—
By Cash pd Doctr Laurie 20 Carolines weight
30.17.6

26—
By Jno. Askew
1. 0.0

29—
By a Beggar 5/. By Wm Keane for 5 Barls Corn @ 12/
3. 5.0


Title: To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 8 March 1760
From: Stewart, Robert
To: Washington, George

My Dear Sir
Williamsbg March 8th 1760

With a heart that overflows with Gratitude I return my most unfeign’d thanks for that fresh mark of your true Friendship and Noble generosity to me, so amply evinc’d in your’s of the 20th Ulto which I yesterday had the infinite pleasure of receiving, But I should never forgive myself if I should by making use of your uncommon goodness, in the least degree embarrass, much less cause a material disappointment in the prosecution of your affairs, therefore my dear Sir let me entreat you not to think of being off any Bargain or do anything that might cause the most distant risque of a Bill’s returning, for I solemnly declare it would give me much more uneasiness to be instrumental in occasioning either, than to continue a Sub[altern] for ever—besides there’s but a very small chance for my procuring a Purchass supposing me possessed of never so much Money another reason is that by a Memorial we have given into the Assembly (which is referrd to the next Session) we have great room to hope that we will when reduc’d receive Half Pay or an equivalent to it these reasons added to the strong Attachment I have to this Colony which a number of concurring circumstances obliges me to Love, has determin’d me to apply for Leave to Sell out, or, if that can’t be obtain’d to Resign.
The Assembly has voted Twenty thousand Pounds to support the Regt till next November and 300 Men till the following April if the Governor should Judge it necessary to keep up that Numr, It’s said the Assembly will rise in 4 or 5 days—We have no other News of any kind here that can merit your notice and as the Bearer (who assures me you will receive this in 3 Days) is just setting out have only Time to beg you that you will be so good as to render my Respectfull & most obliging Complemts acceptable to your Lady and be assur’d that I am & ever will be With the warmest and most Gratefull sense of your vast Friendship My Dear Colo. Your Most Affecte & Most Obliged hble Servt

Robert Stewart


Title: To George Washington from Richard Washington, 26 March 1760 [letter not found]
From: Washington, Richard
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Richard Washington, 26 Mar. 1760. On 10 Aug. GW wrote to Richard Washington: “. . . acknowledge the Receipt of your favours of the . . . 12th Decr & 26 March.”


Title: To George Washington from Hill, Lamar & Hill, 28 March 1760
From: Hill, Lamar, & Hill
To: Washington, George

Sir
Madeira 28th March 1760

Agreeable to an order we received from Messrs Cary & Co. inclosed you have a Bill of Loading for a pipe of wine which although very dear we hope will prove Satisfactory after Standing a Summer to Show its quality in which as well as the Color we have endeavored Carefully to please you. The demand for new wines having been pretty brisk & the expectation of a Wt India Convoy touching here make the Portuguese stand out for Such extravagant prices as the English Factory have hither to been obliged to pay.
At bottom you will observe the Cost for which we shall value on Messrs Cary & Co.

We are with much respect to you & Mrs Washington Sir Your most ready & obliged Friends

Hill Lamar & Hill

No. GWA1

a pipe of wine
£26.10.

10 ⅌ for the Virga gauge
2.13.

£29. 3/
Stg


Title: Cash Accounts, April 1760
From: Washington, George
To:

[April 1760]

Cash

April 25—
To Ditto [cash] of Colo. Custis’s Estate—by Sundrie Hands
£790. 4. 5 1/2

To Ditto of Mr Lewis Martin for a Horse I sold him
32. 5. 0

28—
To Ditto of the Country pr an Acct renderd
14. 4. 4

To Ditto for my Burgesses Wages
45.16. 0

Contra

April 11—
By Cash advanc’d Vale Crawford to buy butter with
1.10. 0

12—
By 39½ Bushels Oats
2.16. 0

15—
By Dinner & Club at Alexa. 2/6. Mendg Sein 3/
0. 5. 6

18—
By Mr Barnes’s Davy—for taking up Boson
0.10. 0

19—
By repairs to my Chair 7/6. Exps. at P. Tobo 9/9
0.17. 3

20—
By Ferriages at Cedar Point 17/6—gave Ferrymen 1/3
0.18. 9

21—
By my Brother’s Servants 2/.  Ferry at Southerns 3/6
0. 5. 6

22—
By Exps. at McGraths 4/.  gave away 1/
0. 5. 0

By Ferry at Williamsons 3/6—gave away 1/
0. 4. 6

24—
By Candles 1/.  paid Mr Craik Jeweller £1.15.6
1.16. 6

25—
By 1 Quire Paper 2/6
0. 2. 6

By Colo. Fairfax’s and my Subscription to Purse in W.
1.10. 0

28—
By Barber 7/6—paid Colo. Randolph for the use of Valiant
2.12. 0

By Atchison & Parker my Note to Sampson Darrell
90. 0. 0

By Mrs Webb mendg a Fan 2/6—Dinner at Weathes. 3/3
0. 5. 9

29—
By Mr Bassetts Servants 3/.  Ferry &ca at Dansies 5/6
0. 8. 6

By Exps. at Todds 5/9—By old Acct 24/1
1. 9.10

By Cash given at the Charity Sermon
1. 1. 3

30—
By Exps. at Port Royal &ca 13/4½—Ferry at Hoes 16/ & 1/6
1.10.10 1/2


Title: To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 4 April 1760
From: Capel & Osgood Hanbury
To: Washington, George

Esteemd Friend
London Apl 4. 1760

We hope ours ⅌ Capt. Walker got to hand of whh please to ⟨mutilated⟩ Inclosd are the Sales of thy 17 Hhds DPC ⅌ ⟨the Anna⟩ to assure thee that We have taken every method that We could think of to make the most of them & had they not been out of Condition we should have got a much better price for them. hope the next We have will be of a fine s[c]ent & quality & that We shall have the pleasure of some ⟨JC⟩ & ⅌ all opportunitys thy Consignments will be very acceptable. The Insurance upon the Deliverance is made £200 upon 20 Hhds at 10 Gs. ⅌ Ct premm. the Ship is lost in the Bay of Biscay as soone as the Papers comes to hand & the loss can be adjustd thy Acct shall have Credit—Since thy Acct Current was sent Thy Bill to T. Moore is paid £250—We wish Thee and thy Wife Health & Happiness & are wth great Esteem Thy Assurd Friends

C. & O. Hanbury


Title: To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 14 April 1760
From: Stewart, Robert
To: Washington, George

My dear Sir
Winchester April 14th 1760

Next day after parting I got here, where I found Colo. Byrd and Paddy is to join him in a few days; I hope ’ere now Bishop is with you; Colo. Byrd says you must send the General a man in his room. Major Lewis by Express informs the Colo. that on the 30th Ulto Capt. Gist was at Bryant’s attack’d by a Body of Cherrokees which he by the advantage of some Houses that he avail’d himself off Beat them off and took a Scalp; the Majr adds that 4 different Posts were attack’d in one day, at 3 of which the Enemy were repuls’d, but had not learn’t the Fate of the 4th. These encursions according to custom spreads much terror amongst the Inhabitants, and leaves us no room to doubt what part our old allies are determin’d to act.
I hear that Genl Mocton is appointed to Command in this Quarter, that a Post is to be establish’d at Presque Isle and the Conquest of Detroit undertaken; But as it’s fear’d (notwithstanding of what we hear’d) that Pensylvania will do little, if any thing, Maryland as usual nothing, and a great part of our Regiment (whose strength is vastly diminish’d by Death Desertion & Sickness) will probably be employ’d on the Fronteers I dread this Plan will be greatly obstructed if not render’d impracticable.
I’m extremely sorry to find the Regiment in so bad a situation—Step[hen]s (whose gone to Pennsylvania to Buy Land) employ’d several of the Soldiers on his own Plantation, in driving Cattle &Ca and many have had Furlough’s of whose return there’s little probability; Scarce a man has a Bayonet, Lock Cover, Hammer Cap, Brush or Picker; Order and Discipline much neglected, the Adjutant laid up with a broken Leg, the Serjt Majr several Serjts Corpls and many private down with the small Pox—we have only 166 fit for Duty at this place, tho’ we have 4 Compys & some from 3 more so that we must cut a very poor Figure both as to number & appearance. By the Colos. orders, I have since my arrival been constantly employ’d in exers[iz]ing them, seeing them Drill’d and in endeavouring to get things restor’d some Order But almost every Day adds to the disagreeable Prospect my own affairs present me with, since my arrival I had the mortification to learn that none of 8 Recruits which I enlisted at so great an Expence ever got to the Battn

nor can I hear that any of the 14 I sent from Virginia is got to the Regiment, those that undertook to Recruit for me spend a great deal of my Money without doing me any Service, and I’m well assur’d that Bouquet is determin’d to make a point of my Joining him immediatly or giving up my Commission But for the reasons we talk’d over I will depend on my Virga Half Pay tho’ a disappointment therein and my late misfortunes would leave me quite destitude, in fine the Train of perplixing embarrassments I have long been and never more than now involv’d in would make an honble Passage to another world not disagreeable.
I beg you will be so good as to present my Complemts in the most respectfull and obliging Terms to Your Lady & allow me the pleasure of subscribing myself with unbiass’d Esteem & unalterable Regard My Dear Colo. Your Most Affecte & Ever Obliged hble Servt

Robert Stewart

   Excuse haste.


Title: To George Washington from Augustine Washington, April 1760
From: Washington, Augustine
To: Washington, George

Dear Brother
[c.April 1760]

Yrs I recd by Capt. Posey & am very sorry we shall not have the pleasure of yrs & my Sisters company here in yr way to Wmsburg, but hope unless you make too long a stay below & very anctious to return home we may have that pleasure some time in may & that I may not be absent if you intend this way

desire you will acqt me as you will have freqt op⟨por⟩tunities from the general Court, I am of the opinion from the freqt disapointments, we shall meet first at yr house where you may be assured to se me as soon as the weather will permit & I dare with safety Venture for the Gout, which has been most favourable to me this w⟨int⟩er than for many past & I am at this time in a better state of health than I have been for the last seven years. I am Surprised Mr Carlyle shou’d blame me for the accts not being settled he has all the Accts & when we settled last there was a Ballence due ⟨us⟩ I am also surprised at the large acct of Quitrents, Mr Carlile Charged himself with that debt so that none ought to be due only from the death of our Niece. if it is convenient be assured we shall be extreme glad to se you both, but at all events I will (if no unforseen accident happens) pay you a Visit in warm weather such as will suit my Gouty Joints. The small pox is no nearer than when I wrote last & in no other families. Mrs Washington Joins me in my Compts to yourself & my sister & I am Dr Sir Yr affe Bror

Augst. Washington

P.S. I am sorry to hear there is so great a prospect of yr missing Cliftons land, if it is not too late let me advise you not, you will repent it as long as you live, to you it is worth half as much again as I am informed he has ⟨s⟩old it for.


Title: To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 14 May 1760
From: Stewart, Robert
To: Washington, George

My Dear Sir
Winchester May 14th 1760

Three Days after I parted with you I got a Man to Inlist in the room of Allen, for about 50/. Expence, and wheneve[r] the Companies from Augusta arriv’d I found out Allen, but every argument I could use could not prevail upon him to engage for more than two years, nor would he take less than £20 ⅌ ann. his Terms are so extremely unreasonable that I have not apply’d for his Discharge, as I’m perswaded you will not have him at such an exorbitant rate, I cannot hear of any other of the Profession in the Regt. I shall write to Capt. McKinzie to enquire for one amongst the Troops at Pittsburg.
We are here to our great surprise inform’d that the Assembly

is to meet on the 19th Inst. in consequence of some Intelligence from So. Carolina—Various are our Conjectures—We are all impatience! most are of opinion that the Regt will be compleated and new one rais’d; should this affair whatever it may be, cause any considerable change in our Military affairs, I hope you will be so good as to have an Eye towards me, if it should be judg’d necessary to have a Major of Brigade, surely my long Services and having acted already in that Capacity gives me an undubitable right to it in preference to any other, and much more so to Mr Irwine.
Colo. Byrd writes to the Governor on the Half Pay Scheme, and from the opinion of the House last Session our hopes are rais’d high and very sanguine, It would be a vast encouragement for us to have some Provision made for our future support before we enter on a new Sene of Dangers and Fatigues perhaps of the most horrible nature we have ever encounter’d—Colo. Byrd has taken upon him to prevent my obeying Orders for Joining the R[oyal] A[merican]s for 8 or 10 Days longer, and if it was possible for you in that Time or a few Days more to inform me what I may hope or fear from the Half Pay Scheme it would be of the last Importance to me. I am really asham’d to be so extremely troublesome to you, but when you know that my welfare or misery depends on the determination I must make I flatter myself it will appologize for it I ever am with the highest Esteem and invariable Regard My Dear Colonel Your most Gratefull & Most Affecte hble Servt

Robert Stewart

Be so good as to present my humble respects to your Lady I hope ⟨s⟩he is got perfectly recover’d.


Title: To George Washington from Christopher Hardwick, 18 May 1760
From: Hardwick, Christopher
To: Washington, George

Sir
Bulskin May 18th 1760

we are disopinted in sending two Wagings down Magnis Tate has declind Coming down & Mr Crafords waginner Refusd to Carey the two mars down So that I was fosed to send down nat with them which I Cud very elley spare! I am in hops I Shall soon be able to see about my beseness we have no more people taken with the Small pox as yet nor I am in hops Shant I have prepared them a Cording to your orders & the Doct. instruct⟨mutilated⟩s & are all well but the two that had the small pox & Fortin & winy & they Seame to be very mulch amnded I beg you will Disspach nat as Soon as posable—I am your most obednt Humble Servant

Christopher Hardwick


Title: To George Washington from Robert Carter Nicholas and George Wythe, 27 May 1760
From: Nicholas, Robert Carter,Wythe, George
To: Washington, George

Sir
Williamsburg 27th May 1760

Yesterday we received your Letter of the 21st Instant & are sorry to find you are likely to be involved in so much Trouble by your late Purchase of Clifton’s Neck, & the more so, because we don’t find ourselves able, even after the maturest Deliberation, to point out such Measures for you to conduct yourself by, as can with any Certainty be relied on; however, as you desire it, we ⟨&⟩ will freely & candidly give you our private Opinions of the Matter, private we call them, because we can give no Assurances that they will correspond with those of superior Judges, indeed we know they differ materially in some Respects with the Judgt of the supreme Court in this Colony.
We think with you that the greatest Danger is to be apprehended from Mr Carrol’s Demand; he at entering the final Decree moved for an Appeal, in which he seem’d very sanguine, but the Court refused it because they thought the Sum under £500 Stg. If he should continue as earnest in the Matter as he seem’d to be the last Time we heard from him, we suppose he will apply for & obtain a Writ of privy Seal to remove the Cause to England; if he should do this, we have very little Doubt but that so much of the Decree, as respects him, will be reversed. Mr Carrol’s original Demand, or rather Mr Ig. Digges’s for Carrol assign’d the Debt to him; ag’t Clifton was £627.9.4½ Sterlg with 6 ⅌Ct Int. from the 16th Octr 1752, as you’ll observe by the inclosed Acct; in this Sum was included the accumulated or comp[o]und Interest so much complaind of by Clifton & which our Court disallow’d; but we incline to think that Carrol, considering the whole Circumstances of this Case, would upon an Appeal be allow’d his whole Demand; but at all Events, after deducting the comp[o]und Interest, the Money Mr Mercer recover’d, if that should be allowed, & in short after making every Deduction which we think there is the least colourable Foundation for, we are convinced Mr Carroll is at least well entituled to £584.12.1½ Stg; so that by comparing these Sums with what

is allow’d Mr Carroll by the Decree, you’ll be able to judge whether it is worth your while to offer him £100; tho’ if you still incline to do it & he will accept your Proposal, we think you will purchase his Acquiescence at an easy Rate. As to Mr Mason’s Pretensions, we don’t know whether he will put his Threats in Execution; but if he should we can’t pretend to say what will be the Consequence of them. The General Court was much divided whether they should renew the Order for a Sale, as Mr Mason offer’d to lodge Money enough to satisfy the several Creditors; many of the Court, Bar & Bystanders thought it hard that this Proposal was not accepted. We think the Court here would & ought to do every Thing in their Power to confirm the Sale & enforce every other Part of their Decree; but you know there is a superior Jurisdiction; which will not think herself bound by any Steps our Court has taken. If Mr Mason’s Agreement should be establish’d there is an End to yours & if Mr Carrol should recover more than is decreed to him by our Court, the Land undoubtedly will remain a Security for the Exceeding Sum; as these material Points depend upon future Determinations of Men’s Judgments, than which you know Nothing is more uncertain, we really are at a Loss, as we said before, how to advise you. As to Clifton’s Declaration that he will not deliver Possession of the Land ’till the year 1762, we can’t find out his Reason for it, but are sure there is nothing in the Case to countenance such a Piece of Obstinacy. We think, according to the Decree, that the Commissioners ought to pay such of the creditors as are willing & ready to comply with the Terms of it, & upon their Receipt of the Money they ought to convey to you their Title & Interest of the Land, which we fear will not be a sufficient Security to you ag’t Carrol, if the Decree should be reversed & he should recover his whole Demand. If Clifton continues obstinate, upon proper affadavits of his refusing to join in a Conveyance & deliver Possession I imagine the General Court would commit him for a Contempt ’till he complys with the Decree, which perhaps may be the spediest method of gaining you the Possession; but Nothing of this Sort can be done ’till October. You can’t recover the Possession in a Court of Law ’till you are invested with the Legal Title, which you can’t have but by a Deed from the Maryland Creditors, who are the Mortgagees. If Messrs Digges & Addison convey to you their Interest

in the Land, perhaps you might be let into such Part of it as is proportionate to the Terms they receive; but the method of doing this will be excessively tedious & very expensive. We would send you a Conveyance as you desire, but can’t prepare it properly without the Title Deeds nor without knowing who are to be the Parties; we would therefore recommend your Neighbour Mr Johnston to you as the properest Gentleman for this Business, as he is upon the Spot & may be acquainted with every Circumstance as it may turn out. If the Money is not paid to such of the Creditors as are willing to comply with the Terms of the Decree, their Interest in Justice ought to run on, & whoever is the Cause of the Money’s being with-held, without Doubt ought to answer it. As you have already paid the Money & it’s probable you’ll not very soon get Possession of the Land, we think you are well entituled to the Rents & Profits; perhaps the Tenants will agree to pay their Rents to you, upon their being fully indemnified; if they will not, we think you should forbid their paying them to any other Person; Clifton surely can have no Right to receive them, & we suppose most of the Creditors will agree that they may be paid to you, after they have received their Money. If Carrol appeals, we think in Justice Clifton ought to defend it, though we suppose he’ll not concern himself about the Matter, & therefore it probably will go undone unless you will undertake it; the Expence is very uncertain & as to the Consequence, we have before given you our Sentiments. Bills of Exchange no Doubt are a good Payment, if accepted by the Creditor, otherwise not; we would therefore advise you to pay Mr Carroll’s Proportion in Current Money at 40 ⅌ct, the Rate, at which Excha. was settled at our last Court. As you have gone so far into the Purchase, it may be worth your while to sound Mr Carroll, the Terms you are the best Judge of, & if you could satisfy him, perhaps Mr Mason might cool a little. We are, Sir, Yr most obt humble Serts

Ro. C. Nicholas
G. Wythe


Title: To George Washington from Joseph Valentine, 27 May 1760
From: Valentine, Joseph
To: Washington, George

Yorke ⟨illegible⟩ ⟨May⟩ 27th 1760

I this day Recd a Letter ⟨illegible⟩ hand of Mr Nicholas⟨;⟩ have also Recd a Letter from him to ⟨you⟩ which I send ⟨off⟩ immediately to you by George from King Wm who I think ⟨is the⟩ safest hand I Can send it By—I also Recd your Letter the 18th sent by melato Jack and will do my ⟨truest⟩ endeavours to get an over seer to sute you—Ass to Colo. Johnson I Cant get one farding of money from him he appointed me ⟨severall⟩ times to go to Receive the money but he all ways faild[.] I went up to Colo. Bassetts the day ⟨mutilated⟩ appointed to set off to your house and from thence I was obligd up to Black Creek and made all the hast Back I Cud as Colo. Bassett had ⟨defferd setting⟩ of for fore or five days Longer I Expected sertainly to get the money of ⟨illegible But when⟩ I came back Colo. Johnson was gone out of town and havt see nor heard any thing of him since and wheather ⟨he had Contract⟩ the money or any part of it to Colo. Bassett ⟨unbeknown⟩ to me I cant tel ass he seemd to want to pay ⟨part but not⟩ all the money due to the Bond.
Ass ⟨Louis Smith⟩ is dead I have setteld another man their he is single man and seems to ⟨illegible⟩ on ass he Begins I am in hops ⟨if the year sutes⟩ to have a ⟨tolerable⟩ good crop their.
we have got a good ⟨deel of land⟩ to be planted and hope to get ot finished everywheare next ⟨Monday⟩.
⟨I⟩ have setteld with Mr Mossom but got no money of him, he had ass I Thought ⟨not paid old Ac[coun]t⟩ but as it was your orders ⟨sir⟩ I aloud it. have in Closd the ac[coun]t with a half

Crown Bill which is the Ballance due and ⟨our slaves⟩ are all in tolerable good helth at this time I ⟨plais⟩ god and hope you and Mrs Washington and the Children are the same.
From Sir your very Humble servant

Joseph Valentine


Title: To George Washington from Joseph Valentine, 28 May 1760
From: Valentine, Joseph
To: Washington, George

Sir
May 28th 1760

I in tended to sent old George but when I cam to Rones George was sick and I was obligd to send Stephen ass I was a fraid to send any but what had had the Small pox ass I understood it was in the way ass they Came they have a prospect of a fine Crop heare if please God the year permits. I am Sir your Most Humble Servant

Joseph Valentine


Title: To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 31 May 1760 [letter not found]
From: Robert Cary & Company
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 31 May 1760. On 28 Sept. 1760 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co.: “Your Letter of the 31st May Via Bristol came to hand.”


Title: Cash Accounts, June 1760
From: Washington, George
To:

[June 1760]

Cash

June 9—
To Ditto [cash] of Jno. Gist for Smiths Acct for self & Mother
£1.13.9

To Ditto of Mr Sampson Darrel—for Ditto
1.11.0

21—
To Ditto of Captn Possey—Balle Accts
5.17.6

To Ditto of Mr Piper for 20,602 lbs. Tobo @ 20/ prCt
206. 0.5

Contra

June 2—
By Mr Mercer. A fee for his Opinion in Cliftons dispute
5. 0.0

By Cash gave Widow Nation’s
0.10.0

5—
By ditto gave Jno. Askew 20/
1. 0.0

By ditto pd Mr Wm Digges for Hay
14. 0.0

10—
By 6 packs Cards 7/6—lost at Ditto 7/6
0.15.0

By Mrs Washington
5. 0.0

13—
By Colo. [Fielding] Lewis Balle Accts
63. 8.1 1/2

   By Cards 2/6. By my Store Acct wt. Mr D. Craig 98/3
5. 0.9

17—
By Mr Mercers claim on Cliftons Sale of Land
266. 0.6

By Mr Wisheart old Acct
0.11.6

By Expences at Mrs Chews
2. 3.9

By 1 pr Scissars 1/3—pd Robt Cunningham Publick Acct 7/6
0. 8.9

21—
By Captn Possey for two Grey Horses bought
26. 0.0

By Cash lent Jeremiah Mitchell
2. 0.0

22—
By a pair of Shoes for Peter the Smith—cost
0. 6.0

By Cash gave for the Sufferers at Boston by Fire
12. 0.0

By Ditto advancd Hosea Bazill
0.10.0


Title: To George Washington from Robert Carter Nicholas and George Wythe, 3 June 1760 [letter not found]
From: Nicholas, Robert Carter,Wythe, George
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Robert Carter Nicholas and George Wythe, 3 June 1760. The catalog entry describes this letter as being “on legal matters, concerning the assignment of mortgages and titles.”


Title: To George Washington from William Digges, 4 June 1760
From: Digges, William
To: Washington, George

Sr
June the 4th 1760

I recd the Proclamation from Mr Green last Thursday & have sent it to Mr Igs Digges in order to know his determination, mine being to meet on the 17th in order to Receive my money

& wash my hands of that Troublesome affr. I cannot judge the Reason Mr Cook has so often disapointed me in not sending the vinegar to Bladensburgh in order to Meet my Boat: but shall know it the first opportunity that offers & am yr Most obt Humble St

W. Digges

P.S. if you have any Command by McGahien, Dr Ross will be here Tomorrow in his way Down to Clear him out.


Title: To George Washington from John Robinson, 8 June 1760
From: Robinson, John
To: Washington, George

Dear Sir
June 8th 1760.

My friend Colo. Thomas Moore has applied to me, to assist him with a Sum of Money, to discharge a Debt due to You which he is very anxious of doing, and was it in my power at this time, I would readily advance the Sum he wants, but it realy is not, if your Affairs would permit You to wait a little longer for it, I will engage to see You paid in Six Months I am with my Complimints to Mrs Washington Dr Sir Your Affecte Friend and hbe Servt

John Robinson


Title: To George Washington from Thomas Moore, 9 June 1760
From: Moore, Thomas
To: Washington, George

Sir
King Wm June 9. 1760

According to my promis in my last I Sent over to the Speaker, who sent me the inclosd for you, I am very sorry if your not receveing the money immediatly should be any disadvantage to you, but I have done all in my power to get it for you, and as the demand at first was what I did not expect so was I the less prepard for it, however I hope a few months will not make any great alteration in your affairs. I am with my compliments to your Lady Sir Your obt hble Sert

Thos Moore


Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 20 June 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Mount Vernon June 20th 1760

On the 17th Instt I drew two setts of Exchange upon you dated the 20th Ulto one sett payable to Mr Jno. Addison amounting to Three hundred and Sixty four pounds Nineteen shillings—the other sett for Three hundred and four pounds fifteen Shillings and three pence and payable to Mr William Digges, both at thirty Days Sight—I don’t doubt their meeting due acceptance & I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: From George Washington to Thomas Hanson Marshall, 20 June 1760 [letter not found]
From: Washington, George
To: Marshall, Thomas Hanson

Letter not found: to Thomas Hanson Marshall, 20 June 1760. On 21 June Marshall wrote to GW: “Yours of the 20th Instant I Recd this Day.”


Title: To George Washington from Thomas Hanson Marshall, 21 June 1760
From: Marshall, Thomas Hanson
To: Washington, George

Sir
Mary Land the 21st of June 1760

Yours of the 20th Instant I Recd this Day; I have not the Least thought, (nor Ever had) of making Sale of any Part of my Land in Virga, unless I had an oppertunity of Purchasing, Immediately (Lands) Joining to me in Maryland, which there is not the Least Prospect off Just now, as the Lands are in the hands of Gen[tleme]n who have not the Least thought of making Sale thereoff.
Captn Posey was mentioning to me sum short Time Past, that he had agreed to Let Mr French, have the Woodland (Tract of Land) he bought of your Brother, for the Same he gave for it; on which I told Capt. Posey (in a Bantr) that I must Let Mr French have that Slipe of mine which Run by Mrs Manleys. As Immagend he would give me a great Price for it, as it Ley Very Conven[ien]t & was well stocked with Timber tho. At the Same Time hand not the Least thought of affering Said Land; I am Sensable how your Lands Surround mine, & Probabilly will In a Short Time be more so, However Sir If I should have an oppertunity of Purchasing Land’s In Maryland Conveniant, would Willingly sell my Land in Virga; if this Should Happin, or if I should Incline to Sell my Land In Virga at Any rate, you may Depend on my Giving you the Refuseal &c. I am With Great Regard Sir your Most Hble servt

Thos Han. Marshall


Title: To George Washington from Andrew Burnaby, 23 June 1760
From: Burnaby, Andrew
To: Washington, George

Sir
Philadelphia June 23d 1760.

I arrived here the 15th past, after an Agreable journey; and desire You will think me extremely Obliged to you for the favour you did me in sending me to Annapolis, and by the letters you gave me to recommend me. I had not an Opportunity of seeing Mr Sharp; but Dr Macleane has behaved with the greatest Politeness to me, introduced me to General Stanwix by Mr Doe his Aid de Camp, and contrived for me to go on a fishing Party with about 15 or 16 Ladies & 8 or 10 Gentlemen to the Schuilkill. We dined Upon a Turtle & drank Tea in the Afternoon & returned in the Evening. Philadelphia is beyond my Expectation; and when I consider that it contains near 20,000 Inhabitants of Many Nations and Religions; that it Employs one Year with Another 350 Vessels; that it has a well regulated Police; and is in beauty, Trade, Riches, not inferiour to many cities in Europe, I am lost in Admiration of that Great Man Mr Penn, who by his Wisdom and vast foresight, has been able to Accomplish such things. I beleive I shall set out for New York either Wednesday or thursday; shall stay there About a week and from thence to Boston for About the same time, from whence in about a Month I shall expect to see England, where I

shall hope to have the pleasure of hearing from You very soon. We have very little News here; the Seige of Quebec is certainly raised; and it is said we have taken about half a dozen Store-ships; from whence it is hoped the Remains of the French Army must be reduced to the greatest distress. The Merchants in this Place were much Alarmed the Other day at hearing that Many of their flags of truce Ships to the Value of better than 100,000£ Sterling were taken in the West Indies; this Evening however they have recovered their looks a little, as a Vessel from Jamaica has brought them an Account that About Eleven are already Acquitted. General Amherst has not yet left Albany, at least he had not, when the last accounts Arrived; People begin to wonder. One of the Miss Hopkinsons (perhaps you may know her) was married last thursday to Mr Duchè a young clergyman here. This I think is everything that can possibly come under the Article of news, Unless I was to tell you of a very violent thunder Gust which happened last Monday & struck two or three houses in Town here; though this to an American has very little Novelty in it; for which reason, Sir, I beleive I must desire You to make My Compliments to Mrs Washington, & conclude by Assuring you that I am with the greatest respect Your Much obliged, most obedient, and most Humble servant

A. Burnaby


Title: To George Washington from John Carlyle, 28 June 1760 [letter not found]
From: Carlyle, John
To: Washington, George

	Letter not found: from John Carlyle, Alexandria, 28 June 1760. The dealer’s catalog gives GW’s following endorsement on the letter: “Colo Carlyle’s Lettr. 28th June 1760 relatg. to my decd Br. Laur Estate.” Included with the letter was a page of accounts.


Title: From George Washington to Joseph Valentine, 24 July 1760 [letter not found]
From: Washington, George
To: Valentine, Joseph

Letter not found: to Joseph Valentine, 24 July 1760. On 9 Aug. 1760 Valentine wrote to GW: “I Recd Yours dated July 24th.”


Title: From George Washington to Farell & Jones, 30 July 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Farell & Jones

Sir,
Mount Vernon Potk Rivr Virginia 30th July 1760

Captn Cawsey at the time he receivd my Tobo wrote me, that he shoud be in these parts before he Saild in order to give Bills of Lading and receive Letters for your House. But I suppose the Captns business renderd it inconvenient for him to do so, and my not seeing, nor hearing from him since, and getting no Bills of Lading at all, must plead an excuse for my silence till now.
He has doubtless informd you that I had Eight Hogsheads on

Board the Tyger, which please to sell to the best advantage, and out of the proceeds pay Mr Knox the Sterling Sum of Fifty one pounds five Shillings and Eleven pence balle of my Account with him.
I have once or twice in my Life been very sensibly disappointed in the Sales of some Tobacco’s—and that in Bristol—which obliges me to add that if these Eight Hhds dont fetch the Amount of Mr Knox’s Account I must nevertheless desire the favour of you to discharge it, and draw for the Balle on Robt Cary Esqr. & Comy London, who will immediately pay what you may advance on my behalf—I am Sir Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington

   By the Nugent Only, Captn Copithorn.
Copy, By Captn Littledale, in the Hero.


Title: From George Washington to Thomas Knox, 30 July 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Knox, Thomas

Sir
Virginia 30th July 1760

Please to call upon Mr Farrel, and he will discharge the Balle of my Account with you—viz. £51.5s.11d.—I am Sir, Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington

By the Nugent Only, Captn Copithorn.
   Copy, By the Hero, Captn Littledale.


Title: Cash Accounts, August 1760
From: Washington, George
To:

[August 1760]

Contra

Augt 1—
By Ditto [cash] pd Thos Hardin (Mrs Steptoes Overr) for 34 Barl Corn
£19.11. 0

2—
By Do pd Messrs Digges & Addison—their Costs in Cliftons Suit besides Tobo
2.10. 0

By Do paid Levies Taxes &ca to John West besides Tobo
12. 0. 0

6—
By Do paid Doctr McCarmick on acct of Jno. Adams
1. 1. 9

By Ditto paid Mr Richd Stephen—in Acct
2.10. 0

7—
By Ditto paid Mr Danl Payne—store Acct Dumfries
9. 8. 8

By Expences at Dumfries 4/10—gave ferryman 7½
0. 5. 5 1/2

8—
By Mr Geo: Johnston—A retaining Fee
2. 0. 0

By Expences at Alexa.
0. 2. 6

By Mr Piper for 1 Hogshead Rum 102 Gals. @ 4/6
24.12.11

12—
By Mr John Gist for his Lease
30. 0. 0

14—
By Saml and Jane Warner—for their Lease in Cliftons Neck
10.15. 0

18—
By Joseph Gardner’s Lease Do Do
21.17. 6

19—
By Messrs Carlyle & Dalton’s Acct
42.17. 7 3/4

By Mr Robt Johnston—3 Yrs Rent [Patrick] Matthews Plantn
7.10. 0

20—
By Mr William Clifton in part for his Land
63. 0. 0

21—
By 2 Sailors setting us across the River
0. 2. 6

By Cash gave Colo. Fairfax’s Will
1. 1. 6

By Do in part of expences at Benedict
0. 1. 6

26—
By Bryan Allison in full of Accts
8. 1. 0

By Wm Ransom—for taking up Boson
0. 5. 0


Title: To George Washington from Christopher Hardwick, 1 August 1760
From: Hardwick, Christopher
To: Washington, George

Sir
Bulskn August 1th 1760

you wrot to me a bout Beaves[.] Catle Sels Considerable dearer then ever I knew them & are scase to be had at any rate I am told Beafe at winshester Sels at Forpence pr pound so that I dont know as yet whethr there is any to be bought as small Common Cows pricess beteen three & four pounds each I dont know what quntety you may want we have five stears & two Charmen baron Cows which one of them hant had a Calf this two years which may be made extroney good Beaf If you think that will not be anofe let me know what quntety to purchis as I shall be glad too oblige you. I Shall take Care to Save what Sweet Sented Tobaco seed you want of each Sort we have gott our Harvest safe in Stouts of about two or three hundred Sheves in a place well Hudderd—the hind wheals of the wagin is doted So that one of the fellows is brok out & we have hir to Carey to the wagner to gtt hir mended if She Can or new ons made & as son as that Can be done I Shall take Care to gtt it in & Cornelos has promist to stak it for me.
I Sent Fortin & Winey Som meale last Sunday when I herd Fortin was as bad as ever & winey Sum beter our Summer Crop Coms on very fast as the weather has benn very Seasenable the tobaco grows mutch larger then last yeare we are over the higt of toping & Shall be quit by the last of next week done—we have all the three Colts Salted three tims a week when they dont Com I have them fetcht up but they are often up every day leatly.
I for got to in form you in my last letter that blease bay mare I boug at Anderson outcry has got as likely a Hors Coult as any I have seen this yeare. I am hartely Sory to tell you of my unhapy misfortin I am as yet not Capable to do any thing but am in hops I soon Shall Jams masen follows my Derictons in Every thing & gows on very well I am ine hops we shall make as mutch as Ever we have yet I am your Humble servant to Comman

Christopher Hardwick


Title: From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 10 August 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Capel & Osgood Hanbury

Gentn
Mount Vernon 10th Augt 1760.

By my friend Mr Fairfax I take the oppertunity of acknowledging the receipt of your favour pr Captn Wa[l]ker & once since of later date by Captn Chew—I am very sorry for the Account (given in the latter) of the Deliverance being lost. All the Tobacco I had on board her was JC and I dare say woud have disgracd no Market whatever—but accidents of this Nature are common & ought not to be repind at.
We had a very favourable prospect sometime ago of making large Crops of Tobacco, but a continued series of Rain for near 4 Weeks has given a sad turn to our expectations and now I verely believe that unless some very surprising change happens for the better again the Crops will be very short—A great deal of Tobo being Drownd, and the rest spotting very fast, which is always a consequence of so much Wet Weather.
I hope you will have receivd for the Books retaken in Captn Downs before this Letter can reach you: they were not intended for ourselves for which Reason I must get the favour of you to State an Acct of the Costs with proper Credits that I may know how to settle for them here. I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 10 August 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Mount Vernon 10th Augt 1760

By my Friend Mr Fairfax I take the oppertunity of acknowledging the Receipts of your several favours that have come to hand since mine of the 30th of November last, and observe in one of them of the 14 Feby by Crawford that you refer to another by the same Ship, but this has never yet appeard.
Inclosd you are presented with the Memm for receiving the Interest of the Bank-Stock signd as directed. The Estate not yet being so amply settled as it ought, an entire division has not been made which leaves many matters upon an instable footing, and among the rest the money in your Hands which has not yet been Assignd to Individuals altho. I believe it will Chiefly, if not all fall into my part since it best suits my purposes to have money that can be Commanded, than money at Interest However till matters comes to a more conclusive Settlement you may let the Accounts stand as you have Stated them, charging each party with their own Drafts and Orders, and letting the Credits remain in favour of the Estate as a Common Stock till further Directions—The Tobaccos Shipd pr the Fair American, Cary & Russia Merchant may be applied the sameway but the present (growing) Crop will be Shipd on my own and Jno. Parke Custis’s particular Accounts (each having our Plantations alloted Us) and must be applied to Our several Credits as you will be directed—so must all the remittances hereafter to be made.
The Insurance on the Tobo pr Talman was high I think—higher than expected; And here Gentn I cannot forbear ushering in a Complaint of the exorbitant prices of my Goods this year all of which are come to hand (except those packages put on board Hooper): For many Years I have Imported Goods from London as well as other Ports of Britain and can truely say I never had such a penny worth before—It woud be a needless

Task to innumerate every Article that I have cause to except against, let it suffice to say that Woolens, Linnens, Nails &ca are mean in quality but not in price, for in this they excel indeed, far above any I have ever had—It has always been a Custom with me when I make out my Invoices to estimate the Charge of them, this I do for my own satisfaction, to know whether I am too fast or not, and I seldom vary much from the real prices doing it from old Notes &ca but the amount of your Invoice exceeds my Calculations above 25 prCt & many Articles not sent that were wrote for.
I must once again beg the favour of you never to send me any Goods but in a Potomack Ship, and for this purpose let me recommend Captn John Johnson in an annual Ship of Mr Russells to this River—Johnson is a person I am acquainted with, know him to be very careful and he comes past my Door in his Ship: I am certain therefore of alway⟨s⟩ having my Goods Landed in Good time and Order which never yet has happend when they come into another River: This year the Charming Polly went into Rappahannock & my Goods by her, recd at different times and in bad order—The Porter entirely Drank out—There came no Invoice of Mrs Dandridges Goods to me—I suppose it was forgot to be Inclosd.
I was owing Mr Knox of Bristol a Balle of £51.5s.11d. to discharge which, and be out of that Gentns Debt I shipd Mr Farrel eight Hhds Tobo in April last desiring him out of the proceeds to pay the above Sum but if in case (which I thought hardly possible) this Tobo shoud be insufficient to answer this purpose then for him to draw upon you for what it might fall short—you will please therefore to notice this—and Mrs Fairfax having kindly undertaken to purchase somethings for Mrs Washington to the amount I suppose of Fifty or Sixty pounds I must likewise desire the favour of you to pay my Order in his favour so soon as presented. When you have receid the Money for the Inclosd Bill please to Credit my Acct for it.
As I shall write to you again by the Fleet I shall decline giving any directions about the Busts till then—Sometime ago there was a prospect of making a large Crop of Tobacco this Summer but a Series of wet weather for near a Month, with little or no Intermission has causd general Complaints among the Planters and now it is feard that the Crops will be very short—The Tobo

in many places being under Water and Drownd—and in other’s suffering much by the Spot which is always a Consequence of such Rains.
My Steward on York River writes me that he has receivd the Goods from Glasgow—Inclosd I address you the Copy of a Letter wrote from Williamsburg in April last—and in a Letter of the 20th June I advertisd you of two Drafts I had made upon you, the one in favour of Mr Jno. Addison for £364.19s.od. and the other of Mr William Digges for £304.15s.3d. These payments were in part for a valuable purchase I had just made of abt 2000 Acres of Land adjoining this Seat. There are more payments yet to make, and possibly I may have occasion to draw upon you for a further Sum; tho. not more I am well perswaded than you have effects to answer Yet if at any time a prospect of advantage shoud lead me beyond this a little I hope their will be no danger of my Bills returning. I mention this rather for a matter of Information (in case of such an Event) than as a thing I ever expect to happen—for my own aversion to running in Debt will always secure me against a Step of this Nature, unless a manifest advantage is likely to be the result of it.
Since writing the foregoing I have added to my Landed purchase, and shall have occasion in a few days to draw upon you to the amount of about £250 payable to Robt Brent save a Bill of about £40 which will be passd in favour of Mr Clifton—I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: Enclosure: Order on Bank of England, 16 November 1759
From: Washington, George,Washington, Martha
To:

November 16 1759.

Pay Mr John Moorey or Robt Cary Esqr. all Dividends now due, or shall hereafter become due £1650 Bank Stock standing

in the name Jno. Custis decd and this shall be your Sufficient Warrant.

Go: Washington&Martha Washingtonlate wife ofDanl Parke Custis Decd


Title: From George Washington to Richard Washington, 10 August 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Washington, Richard

Dear Sir
Mount Vernon 10th August 1760

Colo. Fairfax’s departure for England in a Ship for London affords me the best oppertunity imaginable to acknowledge the Receipt of your favours of the 22 Novr 12th Decr & 26 March which are all the Letters I have receivd from you since those taken notice of in mine of the 20th of Septr last.
I must confess that my disappointment in the Sales of my Tobo pr Couzens was a very sensible one, having seen no Accts of Tobaccos by that Ship (till then) under £12 pr Hhd, & few, very few indeed that did not avarige 14 & from that to 15 & 16 pounds pr Hhd: mine being all Sweetscented and neatly managd left me no room to suspect coming in at the Tale of the Market—The discouraging Sales I have generally got for all Tobos Shipd of my own growth has inducd me to dispose of my last years Crop in the Country, the price being good and certain. but this may not always happen, and while I can Ship without loss I shall always be glad to have it in my power of consigning you a part. I dare say your Account Currt transmitted in Decr last is very right, altho. I shoud have understood it better had you credited me for £50 Insurd on my Tobaco pr the Integrety and made me debtor for the Premio &ca—there is another Article of Interest short £12 which I shoud be glad to have explaind;

if it is for Interest on the money you have lain in Advance for me I am extreamely willing to allow it, thinking it just and never intending to put you to the least Inconvenience on my Account—I hope before this Letter can have reachd you, that you have recoverd my loss of Goods retaken in Captn Down’s.
The French are so well Drubd, and seem so much humbld in America that I apprehend our Generals will find it no difficult matter to reduce Canada to our Obedience this Summer, but what may be Montgomery’s Fate in the Cherokee Country I wont so readily determine—It seems he has made a prosperous beginning having penetrated into the Heart of their Country, and is now advancing his Troops in high health and Spirits to the relief of Fort Loudoun—But let him be wary—he has a crafty Subtil Enemy to deal with that may give him most trouble when he least expects it. We are in pain here for the King of Prussia—and wish Hanover safe—these being Events in which we appear to be much Interested.
My endulging myself in a trip to England depends upon so many contingencies (which in all probability never may happen) that I dare not even think of the Gratification, than which nothing is more ardently desird—but Mrs Washington and I both woud think ourselves very happy in the oppertunity of shewing you the Virginia Hospitality, which is the most agreable entertainment we can give, or a Stranger expect to find in an Infant Woody Country, such as ours is. I am Dear Sir Yr Most Obedient Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: To George Washington from Robert McKenzie, 12 August 1760
From: McKenzie, Robert
To: Washington, George

Dear Sir
Camp at Venango [Pa.] Augt 12th 1760

Though I have as small a Title as any Person whatever to the least Share of your Esteem, yet, by often observing with what Pleasure you seize all Opportunities of using your good Offices for the Assistance of others, I dare to address you and to sollicit your Interest in an Affair of the greatest Importance to me, which from your Benevolence alone I hope to obtain.
My Relations in Europe have procured recommendatory Letters from Ld Barrington, Ld Elibanks & Colo. Douglass, to General Amherst in my Behalf & have engaged Colo. Robertson & Capt. Abercrombie, his first Aid de Camp to present them, and to back them with all their Influence. They have desired me to send a Memorial to the Genl, which I have accordingly done, & to apply to you for a Testimony of my Behaviour, while under your Command. This is the Favour wch I have to request; and if my Conduct has ever merited your Approbation, I hope you will do me the Justice to declare it to Genl Amherst, or in any other Manner, wch you think will be equally conducive to my Interest.
As soon as I can get Genl Monctons Liberty I shall repair to the Head Quarters of the Army; & lest such a Step should hurt me in Virginia, I have wrote very fully to the Governor on the Subject, desiring to know what I may expect in the Colonys Service at the Reduction of the Regt; if Nothing, I have begged the Honour of a Letter from him to Genl Amherst, & by a Memorial to his Council have sollicited the same Favor from them. In every Thing I have acted agreeable to the Advice of my Friends, and though my Expectations are far from being pleasing, I am under a Necessity either to disoblige them, or to accept of whatever their Interest may procure for me.
I am with Major Stewart, erecting a Post at this Place, which is to be a Block House, defended by a Ditch & covered Way—Colo. Bouquet with 250 Pensilvs. is doing the same at Presqu’Isle

The Indians are very passive, and except four Men killed and taken the other Day at the Lake, we have not met with the least Disturbance from them this Campaign.
I should be glad to hear from you as soon as possible, under Cover to Major Gates; and shall esteem it a singular Favor to be ranked among the Number of Dear Sir, your Friends & very humble Servants

Robert Mackenzie


Title: To George Washington from George Mason, 27 August 1760
From: Mason, George
To: Washington, George

Sir
Gunston Hall 27th Augt 1760.

Inclosed You have my Survey of G. Brent’s Pattent: when I came to look over my papers, I found I had sent the platt to Mr Geo: Brent some years ago, & the only one I had left was a rough platt of that & the adjacent Lands on both Sides the Creek; from part of which what I send You is copyed; but as the original was so much worn out that it cou’d not be copyed wth

any Truth, I thought it best to send You my Field-notes; not having Time to make a correct platt of the whole pattent, as my Family was very much indisposed, three of my Children being very ill; which was the Occasion of detaining Your Messenger all Night. Mrs Mason presents her Comps. to Mrs Washington & Yourself, as does Dear Sir Yr most obdt Sert

G. Mason

P.S. Two of my Negroes took up one of yours last Saturday that was run away, I happened to be from Home at the time, or wou’d have sent a person Home with him. My overseer tells Me he sent him by Joseph Stevens.


Title: Cash Accounts, September 1760
From: Washington, George
To:

[September 1760]

Contra

Septr 3—
By Joseph Ransom in part
£ 0.15.0

8—
By Gerrard Bowling Inspecting Tobo
0.15.0

By Cards 2/6—Exps. at Colemans 7/
0. 9.6

9—
By Israel Thompson for 29 Bushls hair
1. 1.9

By Joshua Baker Dressing Hats
0. 6.3

By Captn Hardin Add[itiona]l Publick Levies
0.14.0

12—
By Patrick Rice for Warr[an]t recd before
0.18.9

13—
By Mr Fieldg Lewis on Acct Iron Work Scheme
5. 0.0

By Money gave my Negroe fellow Joe
0. 5.0

14—
By Christopher Hardwick
10. 0.0

15—
By Ferriages at Keyes’s 1/3—Exps. at Leesburg 4/9
0. 6.0

By Expences at Colemans in full 6/2
0. 6.2

16—
By Colo. Colvill for 15 Barrels of Corn
7.10.0

By Mr Robt Adam’s Acct
5.12.0

By Hosea Bazill in full of all Accts
1.18.9

21—
By Expences at Alexandria 2/6—By Jno. Alton 20/
1. 2.6

By Doctr Hunter Bleeding Mrs Washington
0.10.0

24—
By Miss Dent on Acct of Patcy Custis
1. 1.0

By Do Do on Acct Mrs Washington
0. 2.6

25—
By Jno. Jones—for 6 Days working at my Mill
0. 9.0

30—
By Jno. Askew money lent
4. 0.0


Title: To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 15 September 1760 [letter not found]
From: Capel & Osgood Hanbury
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 15 Sept. 1760. On 3 April 1761 GW wrote to Capel & Osgood Hanbury: “Your favour of the 15th Septr . . . now lyes before me.”


Title: From George Washington to Charles Lawrence, 28 September 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Lawrence, Charles

Mr Lawrence
Virginia 28th Septr 1760.

For two years past Messrs Cary and Company have sent me a suit of Cloaths of your making, that dont fit me so well as I coud wish—this I attribute to some error in the measure that was sent.
Having now occasion for 4 pair Breeches as underneath (for which Mr Cary will pay you) I have sent another measure for them, taken according to directions of a Taylor here: please to cut them out exactly by it, and if any faults shoud appear I will endeavour to point them out in my next to you; be so good therefore to keep the Measure—and send me directions how to measure for a Coat. You will please to take notice that the Inclosd measure is the exact size of the Thigh &ca because it was

taken over a thin, close pair of drawers & no allowance made. I am Sir Yr Very Hble Servt

Go: Washington

   1 pair Crimson Velvet Breeches
   1 pair black knit silk Ditto
   1 pair black Ditto—worsted ditto
   1 pair light colourd—silk shag Ditto


Title: Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 28 September 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

[Mount Vernon] 28th Septr 1760

Invoice of Sundry Goods to be sent by Robert Cary Esqr. & Company for the use of George Washington—Virginia.
   1 pair Crimson Velvet Breeches 1 pair black knit silk Ditto 1 pair Black ditto worsted ditto 1 pair light colo[re]d silk Shag Ditto to be made by the Measure Inclosd to Charles Lawrence 2 pieces Irish Holland @ 6/ 1 piece of Cambrick for Ruffles, or something else proper if Cambrick is not to be had 1 piece of Irish Linnen @ 2/ 4 Yds fine book Muslin @ 10/ 4 ditto fine white Gauze 1 piece of fine white Canting 1 piece of white Callico @ 40/ 1 piece of Bird Eye diaper for Towel 2 pieces best Nankeen with buttons & Mohair to suit ditto 1 white persian quilted Petticoat 2 Satten Bonnets
   2 pr dble Channel pump 4 pr strong Shoes 2 pr very neat Stichd & bound Pumps from Mr Didsbury 12 rolls best Shoe Blacking 1 pr Womans black Satten Shoes 1 pr ditto white Ditto 4 pr neat black everlasting ditto all to be made accordg to the Meas[ur]e Sent 2 pr Womans black Everlastg Ditto & 2 pr

strong leather ditto of large Sixes 6 pr Mens neat white Gloves 6 pr ditto of Norway Doe—above the middle Size—Stichd Tops 6 pr Womans white Kid Gloves 6 pr ditto Mitts 2 pr colourd Gloves 4 pr ditto Mitts
   1 Groce Shirt Buttons 1 pair Tabby Stays according to the Meas[ur]e 6 Knots & Breast Knots 3 Egrets 2 fashionable Fans 4 pieces Diaper Tape—fine 6 M Miniken Pins 6 M Short whites 6 M large Ditto 1 Comb trae, Combs & Powder Box 6 fine horn Combs, & Comb Brushes 2 Bottles westerns lowdried Scotch Snuff
   1 dble bitted Bridle with two pair Reins 4 Circingles 6 Girths 3 Sadle Cloaths 6 Strong Snaffle Bridles 2 dozn Hempen Halters with flat Hea⟨d⟩ 6 Coach Whip Thongs 2 Chair Whip Ditto 1 dozn Horse Collars 1 Set of strong Waggon Harness for 5 middle Sizd Horses—N.B. they may be strong but not heavy
   1 dozn Beer and Cyder Glasses 1½ dozn Punch Ditto 2 dozn wine Glasses—all of the newest Fash. ½ dozn glass Milk Pots 6 China Mugs two of a Sort 6 ditto potting Pots, 2 of a size—none large 2 large Stone Churns, each to hold 10 Gals. 6 dozn earthen Milk Pans 1 dozn strong Mugs different sizes ½ dozn ditto Pipkins—2 of them to hold a galn each 2 a Pottle & 2 a quart 1 dozn Stone Chamber Pots 1 dozn ditto wash Basons  12 white Stone Butter plates
   ½ Rheam common writing Paper 2 quire large Dutch Paper & some pastboard 6 papers Ink powder 1 Box Wafers 1 Jar best Raisons 1 large Stone pot of Currts ½ Bushels Almonds in the Shell ½ lb. Nuts 4 Oz. Mace the same qty of Cloves & Cinnamon & 5 lb. Comfits different sorts 6 lb. Ginger 3 lb. Allspice 1 dozn bottles flower of Mustard
   6 House Brooms 6 Hearth Brushes 1 piece black Ribbon for hair 2 Cloaths flaskets 1 large Tea Kettle 1 pr Backgammon Tables—large 2 fine hair Sifters 1 dozn Course Hair Ditto 25 Salt Petre 2 dozn Packs playing Cards A Tin Candle Box with a Lock to it 2 dozn strong course pewter Spoons 1 dozn horn Ditto 1 dozn brass Thimbles sorted 1 dozn Tin Sheets to bake Bread upon 1 dozn Tin Dish Covers sizd 1 pr neat dble bellows for dining Room 6 pieces of Beggars Tape
1 Forty fathom Sein—well Rigd—not to be above 8 Feet deep—to have spare twine and 150 fathom of Rope to haul her

   by 50 fathom of Line for Leading strings to be a size smaller than Bed Cords 50 fathom of Garden Line
   A Very neat Pocket Book—7 Inches long & 4½ wide with several Vellom, or other Leaves that will bear writing thereupon with a Pencil, & rubbing out again—to have a Pencil therein, & a Pocket or two for Papers—to be inclosd and fastned by a Silver Catch 2 Nett Silver Pencil Cases, & spare Pencils for Ditto 2 dozn Common Pencils ½ dozn Mens fine worsted Hose large & long
   50 lb. large Bristol Drop Shott 50 lb. bird Shott 70 lb. Small Mould Shott 1 Rundlet red paint Ground in Oyl 4 pair Stilliards midling large 4 large watering Pots 1 Wier Sieve for cleaning wheat 1 Iron Ditto for cleaning Indn Corn The case (which is now sent) to be filld with Pickles—among which let there be 3 bottles of French Olives—and none of other sorts One Cheese of 50 lb. 1 handsome glass Lanthorne for Passage—wt. Lamps & 10 Gals. Oyl for Do 2 pair hand Mill Stones 6 Blank Books for Accts from a very small to a midling size—N.B. not to be Ruld
   1 Mahagony Case with 16 Square Bottles in it, each bottle holding a Gallon; and the case to stand upon a frame supported by 4 Legs from the foot of which to the Top of the case let be 2 feet 4 Inches  N.B. let the Bottles be very Strong
Order 25 Sacks of Salt from Liverpool
50 lb. White Bisquet
Hartlibs Legacy of Husbandry—also a new System of Agriculture done by various hands, but collected chiefly from the Papers of Mr Hale
2 Bushels of Hop clover Seed An Assortment of Garden Seeds N.B. let these and the Clover Seed be fresh and good—and put into the Cabbin, or dont send any
   3 dozn bottles Stouton’s Bitters 4 Oz. Nitre a Dulcis 1 lb. Orange Peale 1 Quart Orange flower Water 4 Oz. Elixor of Vitriol 4 Oz. Spirits Sal Armoniac 4 Oz. Hartshorn 4 Oz. Salvolatile 4 Oz. Tincture of Myrrh  4 Oz. Jallop 4 Oz. Ipecacuana 4 Oz. Diascordium 4 Oz. Syrrup of Poppies 4 Oz. Conserve of Roses 4 Oz. Contra Irva 2 Oz. Matthews Pills 1 lb. Bark prepard 4 Oz. Tincture of Castor 4 Oz. Spirit of Vitriol—all in dble Flint Bottles
1 Hhd best Porter—or the same quantity of Porter in Bottles

if the Ship Sails time enough to be here before the Weather gets too warm
   1 Dozn Grindstones ½ dozn Grass Scyths 2 Briar Scyths 2 dozn large & strong Padlocks 6 Stock locks—all to have difft Keys 2 dozn handsaw files 2 dozn x cutsaw Ditto 1 dozn whipsaw Ditto 1 dozn pair HL Hinges ½ dozn drawing Knives 2 dozn box Gimblets 2 Whipsaws—of the best kind ½ groce of course, cheap, sheathd Knives for cutting Tobo 10 M 4d. Nails 5 M 6d. Ditto 20 M 8d. Ditto 25 M 10d. Ditto 1000 half Crown Ditto
   600 Ells Oznabrigs 350 Yards Cotton 4 dozn pair Mens plaid Hose 4 dozn pair Womens Ditto 2 dozn pair Boys & Girls Ditto 6 lb. brown thread 2 lb. whited brown Ditto 4 Oz. 12d ditto 4 Oz. 2/ ditto 6 Loaves of dble & 6 of Single Refind Sugar
A Light handy Circumferenter for Surveying Lands—the Dial plate to be large and well graduated—the Sights to let down by Hinges (and not to slip of as is common) a spare needle in case of accidents—A Load Stone Set—and a Chain to be strong & well fixd—Platting Instruments, nor nothing but what is here specified, is wanting
   4 Oz. Gutte vite 1 pint of Daffes Elixor 4 Oz. Squires Elixor 2 Wig, or Hair Bags 10 yds light Shag course & strong for Negroe waiting Men’s Breech⟨es⟩ 100 W. white Paint—cheap sort 1 large brass or Iron Lock for an Outer Door

Go: Washington


Title: Cash Accounts, October 1760
From: Washington, George
To:

[October 1760]

Cash

Octr 2—
To Cash of Mr Robt Brent in Excha. for Bills
£ 8. 5. 0

To Cards at Sundry times
7.12. 6

15—
To Cash of Mr Joseph Valentine
149. 0. 1

Contra

Octr 2—
By two Bushels of Oats 3/6—Gave Servants 7/6
0.11. 0

By Ferriage & Ferrymen at Fredericksburg
0. 7. 6

4—
By Expences at Caroline Court House
0. 8. 6

By Ditto at Hubbards 27/10.  Ferriages &ca at Danzies 12/
1.19.10

6—
By the Govrs Servants 10/.  Breakfast 1/3—Candles 1/3
0.12. 6

8—
By Cards 30/.  Coach hire 1/3. Cards 10/.  By Barber 2/6
2. 3. 9

By Play Tickets at Sundry times
7.11. 3

14—
By Supper &ca 2/6.  By Coach 1/3. By Liquor 10/
0.13. 9

15—
By Mr Jno. Hood for a Lot in Edinburg
10. 0. 0

17—
By mendg Harness 1/3.  By Mr Mercers Servts 1/3
0. 2. 6

21—
By The Attorney Genl—fee in Massons Suit
5. 0. 0

26—
By Mrs Washington 28/6.  By Chesnuts 1/6
1.10. 0

28—
By Colo. Harrisons Servts 2/6.  By Cards Sundries 75/
3.17. 6

31—
By Colo. W: Randolphs Servts 5/
0. 5. 0


Title: To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 2 October 1760
From: Stewart, Robert
To: Washington, George

My Dear Sir
Camp At Venango [Pa.] 2d October 1760

Since my last long Letter from this place I recd Intelligence from the neighbouring Indians that they discover’d where a large Body of the Enemy had just pass’d about 28 Miles above us and seem’d to bend their course this way, a Delaware spoke to

some of their Savages who told him they were off a large Party design’d for this place, I at 2 oClock this morning Detach’d an officer & 20 alert Virgs. with some six nation & Delaware Indians to Reconnoitre the different Paths & Passes leading towards where the Enemy were seen & to Scour our Environs, they are just return’d without making any other Discovery than where a few Indians lay on the top of an adjacent eminance which overlooks our Camp nor can I conceive the Enemy to be now in condition to undertake any thing serious or send out more than a few Scalping Parties, however we have got into a tolerable Posture of Defence against Musketry and ready for them come as soon as they will some of their Scalpers have been frequently about us at different Times but as yet have not been able to get the least advantage, tho. the nature of this Service obliges me to have small Parties sometimes Detach’d a considerable distance from Camp nor have we sustaind the smallest Loss except that of our Engineer poor DuPlesis who on the 2d Ulto Detach’d to reconnoitre French Creek he & the few that went with him have not been hear’d off for upwards of 3 weeks his Loss is more sensibly felt as the construction of works cannot be carried with such propriety as they would have been under the direction of so able an Engineer, nor is it now in my power to have the pleasure of presenting You with Planns of our different Posts nor the Draft of this River which I promis’d in my last.
You will undoubted receive the accots of the Success of His Majestys Arms (under the Orders of The Generals Amherst & Murray and the great probability there is in their succeeding in Enterprizes still more Glorious which must terminate in the totall Reduction of the French Territories in this part of the Globe) In a speedier Channel than I from this remote Post could convey them I will not therefore trouble You with a less perfect repetition of them.
We are here extremely impatient to hear something of our Virginia Expedition our last accots from that Quarter was in a Letter I recd from Colo. Byrd Dated at Campbell’s Augt 10th—I cannot imagine he will proceed after he is inform’d that Fort Loudoun the principal Object of his Destination is Surrender⟨d⟩ to the Savages, and I would fain hope that War will now attract some part of the Ministry’s attention and that such measures will be concerted as that our ulterior Operations against

them will end in their extirpation, than which nothing could more effectually promote Our General Interest with the Indians and give them the most tremendous opinion of our Prowess All the Savage Nations would then be convinc’d beyond doubt how carefully they ought to cultivate our Freindship and how much our just resentment was to be dread this Measure would undeniably cost an immensity of Bloud and Treasure but the happy and permanent Good that would certainly result from it would amply repay all.
In the different Letters I had the pleasure to write You from Pittsburgh & this place I inform’d You how happy we are under the Orders of so consummate an Officer & so fine a Gentleman as our General appears to be and the genteel Politeness of His Behaviour particular marks of which and indeed of real kindness he has been Pleas’d to Honr me with of which unlook’d for lucky incident I avail’d myself to procure a continuation of both my Commissions notwithstanding that Colo. Bouquet in the name of the Corps warmly sollicited for my being Order’d to Join the Battalion but as I hitherto have been no Favourite of Fortune’s I did not think it prudent to trust to any of Her superficial smiles and therefore I have applied for Liberty to sell and if I cannot be indulg’d therein to Resign being determin’d to attach myself solely to our own Regt and rely upon the Generosity of the Colony which I have so long had the Honr to Serve for a future Subsistence, tho’ I with great regret observe that my Interest there declines, this declension is evinc’d by an Order Mr Boyd tells me the Governr has given for my returning my Major’s Pay for last Campaign when I did the intire Duty of that Office with such assiduity and punctuality as to give perfect Satisfaction to the Colo. of the Regt and all my Superiors in the Line, this unexpected Stroke astonish me the more as it is most certain that Major Lewis drew Pay as Majr from the Date of his Major’s Commission tho’ Major Stobo was in fact Major of the Regt and that as Maj. Lewis was till his Imprisonment to Majr Stobo what I was to Majr Lewis during his detention with the Enemy, consequently if Major Ls had then a right to Majrs Pay the same reasons entitled me to it from the Date of my Majority till Major Lewis rejoin’d the Regt which was all I did or desir’d to but another recent Instance in my favour’s places this (if possible) in still a stronger & more

striking view vizt Lt Colo. Peachy drew Pay as Majr from the Date of his Major’s Commission in our Regt till the Day of his Promotion in the Fronteer Battn tho’ he never did the least Duty nor even Join’d our Regt as Majr but notwithstanding the combin’d force of these (I hope) coercive Arguments I recd the Orders of the Commander in Cheif of the Colony Troops for it—I would by no means desire You to ask a Favour from Govr Fauquier because I know how disagreeable it would be to You but if I have a right to that Pay and that I have I imagine is obvious by the above State of the affair It cannot be deem’d a favour to procure Justice or to rectify a mistake to which I ascribe this Order therefore I doubt but your good offices will be us’d in obtaining a Countermand to it—When I applied for the Majority I endeavour’d to represent the hardship of Major Peachy’s having got it and told the Governor that Rank was what I cheifly regarded but that I should do the sole of that fatigueing Duty without Pay when there was two Precedents so clearly in my favour for drawing it I never imagin’d would admit of the least hesitation.
I am extremely uneasy at your long and uncommon silence I have not been favour’d with a Scrape from you since the Date of the Letter you wrote me from Bulskin the Day after parting—I am certain that either your Letters have miscarried or which is infinitely worse the want of Health prevents your writing, how happy it would make me to be assured that You and your Family are well for God’s sake releive me from my vast uneasie apprehensions on this Head.
I cannot even guess at where I shall be order’d to this Winter I beg you will be so good as to present my Respectfull Complemts in the warmest and most obliging Terms to Your Lady & the Children, and beleive me unalterably to be With the most sincere & perfect Esteem & Regard My Dear Colonel Your Most Affectionate & Most Obliged hble Servt

Robert Stewart

All the Officers of this little Camp offer their best Respects particularly McNeill & McKenzie pray excuse inaccuracys &Ca being hurried.


Title: From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 8 October 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Robert Cary & Company

Gentn
Williamsburg 8th Octr 1760.

This serves to cover a certificate of the Tobo I shipd you in the Cary, which I hope will answer the end of a Bill of Lading. I am told it will do instead of Recording the Bill, and as it is less expensive and soonest come at, I embrace the method.
Since my last I have passd a set of Bills in favour of Mr George Brent (instead of Robt Brent) for Two hundred pounds Sterling which please to pay and place to acct of Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: Cash Accounts, November 1760
From: Washington, George
To:

[November 1760]

Cash

Novr 4—
To Mr Wm Hunter for a horse sold him
£ 35. 0.0

To The Speaker on Acct of Colo. Thos Moores Bond
500. 0.0

   5—
To Interest of Francis Fosters Bond
25. 0.0

To Doctr Craik Shoeing his Horse
0. 4.0

Contra

   Nr 3—
By Tea 1/.  By Subscripn Wmsburg Purse 20/
1. 1.0

By Do for Colo. Fairfax 10/. Weatherbornes Acct 16/9½
1. 6.9 1/2

   5—
By Barbers Acct £1.13.  paid for Toys 4/1½
1.17.1 1/2

   7—
By Expens. at Danzies 14/9. Do at Todds 27/6 Hub[bar]ds—9/6
2.11.9

   10—
By Ditto at Julians 45/7½.  By a Launcit 1/.
2. 6.7 1/2

By Mr Chs Yates’s Acct £13.11.2½—By H. Wallaces 6/
13.17.2 1/2

By Ferriages & Ferry[ma]n 11/3.  By my Mothr £15—Gave Servts 1/
15.12.3

   11—
By Exps. at Dumfries 20/.  paid for Books for J.C. & M:C. 5/
1. 5.0

By Exps. at Colchester 2/6.  By Gilbert Simpson’s Acct
23.10.0

By Doctr Hunters Acct 58/
2.18.0

   23d—
By Cash paid for 10 Bushels of Oysters
0.10.0

By Mrs Washington to buy Turkeys 40/.

By Do for Expences 33/6
3.13.6


Title: From George Washington to Farell & Jones, 5 November 1760
From: Washington, George
To: Farell & Jones

Gentlemen
Williamsburg 5th November 1760.

Please to Credit my Acct for the Inclosd Draft on you and oblige Yr Most Hble Servt

Go: Washington


Title: From George Washington to Robert McKenzie, 20 November 1760
From: Washington, George
To: McKenzie, Robert

Dear Sir,
Mount Vernon Novr 20th 1760

Had your Letter of the 17th of August come to my hands before the 18th Instt I shoud not have given you the trouble of perusing my answer to it at this late Season. I am sorry you shoud think it necessary to introduce a request that is founded upon Reason and equity with an Apology, to me—had you claimd that as a Right, which you seem rather to ask as a favour I shoud have thought myself wanting in that justice which is the distinguishing Characterestick of an Honest Man to have withheld it from you.
But how to answer your purposes and at the same time avoid the Imputation of Impertinence, I am I must confess, a little more at a loss to determine. That Genl Amherst may have heard of such a Person as I am, is probable; And this I dare venture to say is the ultimate knowledge he has of me; how then shoud I appear to him in an Epistalory way and to set down and write a Certificate of your behaviour carries an Air of formality that seems more adapted to the Soldiery than Officers. I must there fore beg the favour of you to make what use you please of this Letter.
For Sir, with not more pleasure than truth, I can declare to you, and to the World that while I had the Honour of Commanding the Regiment, your conduct both as an Officer and

Gentleman were unexceptionable; and in every Instance, so far as I was capable of discerning such, as to have merited applause from better judges. Since my time Colo. Byrd has been witness to your Behaviour and his Letter Recommendatory must I am perswaded do you more Service than my sanguine endeavours can. Altho. he, nor no other Person, is more sensible of your worth nor more Inclind to contribute their best Offices towards the Completion of your wishes than


Title: Cash Accounts, December 1760
From: Washington, George
To:

[December 1760]

Contra

Decr 10—
By George Taylor’s Balle pr Acct 20/—Club at Hughs’s 1/
£ 1. 1. 0

11—
By hire of a Boat to go to Mr Rozer’s 10/. Club at Masons 1/6
0.11. 6

12—
By Colo. Carlyle’s Servts given 10/
0.10. 0

By Mr Muirs Acct for 2000—10d. Nails
1. 0. 0

13—
By Jno. Carney for a horse £10
10. 0. 0

By Saml Johnston for 15 head of Sheep a 6/6
4.17. 6

By Ditto for a horse had of Jos[ep]h Gardner
12.18. 0

15—
By Gilbt Simpson for 42 Barrels of Corn a 7/6
15.15. 0

Ditto for 1 stack of Tops & 3 of Blades
9. 0. 0

16—
By  Lovett. a New Englandman—Maryld viz. C[urrenc]y

         For 100 wt of dryed Cod
          1. 0.0

         ½ Barrl Pickled Do
          1. 0.0

         1 Axe
          0.10.0

         4 flag bottom’d Chairs @ 3/
          0.12.0

         2 Buckets—@ 2/
          0. 4.0

         £3. 6. V:C: is

2.12. 3

18—
By Wm Leake for puttg a Chimy to School Ho. & plg Ditto
3. 5. 0

By Valentine Crawford for a Waggon & 1 Horse &ca
20. 0. 0

By Patrick Grace for Thrashing
3. 0. 0

By 2 Sows big of Pig @ 10/
1. 0. 0

22—
By Joseph Ransom in full for Working at my Mill
0.12. 0

By Cash lent Jno. Askew
16. 0. 0

By Richd Ryder (in gold) for 7,200 Shingles
6. 9. 6

27—
By Alexandria Lottery Tickets
5.10. 0

By gave a Beggar
0. 5. 0

By Money lost or pd & not charged
101. 0.11 ½


Title: From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 2 December 1760 [letter not found]
From: Washington, George
To: Fairfax, George William

Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 2 Dec. 1760. On 30 Oct. 1761 Fairfax wrote to GW: “Your favors of the 2d of Decr . . . and first of Augt came very safe to hand.”


Title: To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 12 December 1760 [letter not found]
From: Robert Cary & Company
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 12 Dec. 1760. On 3 April 1761 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co.: “Yours of the 12th Decr . . . is come to hand.”


Title: To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 26 December 1760 [letter not found]
From: Robert Cary & Company
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 26 Dec. 1760. On 3 April 1761 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co.: “Yours of the . . . 26th”