1From George Washington to Robert Cary & Co., 1 May 1759 (Washington Papers)
The Inclosd is the Ministers Certificate of my Marriage with Mrs Martha Custis—properly as I am told—Authenticated, you will therefore for the future please to address all your Letters which relate to the Affairs of the late Danl Parke Custis Esqr. to me. as by Marriage I am entitled to a third part of that Estate, and Invested likewise with the care of the other two thirds by a Decree of our...
2Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 1 May 1759 (Washington Papers)
Invoice of Sundry Goods to be Shipd by Robt Cary Esq. and Company for the use of George Washington—viz. 1 Tester Bedstead 7½ feet pitch, with fashionable blew or blew and white Curtains to suit a Room lind wt. the Incld paper Window Curtains of the same for two Windows; with either Papier Maché Cornish to them, or Cornish coverd with the Cloth 1 fine Bed Coverlid to match the Curtains 4 Chair...