From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 20 September 1764
To Robert Cary & Company
Mount Vernn Septr 20th 1764.
Gentn
You will now receive Invoices for such Goods as are wanting for Master Custis and myself on York Rivr which I beg may be sent as early as possible as the Hoes will be very much wanted (owing to the useless ones lately sent) and the Seins come too late for the fishing Season if any ways delayed.1 I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt
Go: Washington
ALB, DLC:GW.
1. The invoices are in DLC:GW. These goods for the York River plantations were sent with Cary’s invoices of 13 Feb. 1765 (DLC:GW) aboard the William and Mary, which entered the York River on 28 May 1765.