To George Washington from William Tilghman, 15 June 1795
From William Tilghman
Chesnut Street [Philadelphia] June 15. 1795.
Sir
I have just received from Mr George Chalmers, a bill of Exchange for sixty pounds sterling, in payment of the sum of one hundred pounds currency, which he received of Mr George on account of the Estate of Coll Colville.1 If you have no occasion for the bill, perhaps you would wish to have it sold—If so, be pleased to inform me, & I shall probably have an opportunity of disposing of it in the course of this day, as there is a vessel to sail to England to morrow—I will do myself the honor of waiting on you at any time to morrow which you may please to appoint, when I will be prepared to close this transaction, as far as relates to Mr Chalmers.2 I have the honor to be with very great respect yr most obt Serv.
Wm Tilghman
ALS, DLC:GW.
1. For the background of this transaction, see GW to Tilghman, 10 March 1794, and Tilghman to GW, 23 March 1794.
2. An entry of 17 June in GW’s ledger account with the estate of Thomas Colvill reads: “By Cash received of George Chalmers of London formerly an Attorney employed by the Executors of Thomas Colvill to recover of Sydney George of Maryland a debt due from him to the Estate of which he received in Maryland money £100.—which sum he alledges to have paid soon after the receipt, to one of the Executors, but from the great length of time since the transaction the receipt has been mislaid, but the sum received by him he has agreed to pay upon Condition of having the same refunded when ever he can produce the Receipt, and directed a Bill to be drawn for the said £100—at par being £60 Stg which at an Exchange of 176 produced £105.12.0 Maryland money equal to [£]84.9.7¼” (, 15).