1. GW’s letter to Howell Lewis has not been found, but see notes 2 and 3, below.

2. Anne Louise Beekman (1775–1802) married Louis (Lewis) Chodkewiez (Chodkewicz) of Poland at New York in July 1793. After his death at Philadelphia in October of that year, she married in 1794 Jean (John) Marie DuBarry (d. 1830), a merchant originally from France, but most recently from Saint Domingue.

Anne Louise DuBarry sought payment of a debt that Howell Lewis owed her first husband. She wrote GW from Philadelphia on 28 July: “the 13th of Last month I had the honour of writing to you. I Directed my Letter to you at Philadelphia not knowing you had Left that place and being yet without an answer I fear my Letter is Lost as Likewise the note of Mr Howell Lewis which I took the Liberty of encloseing to you. immediately upon the Receipt of the Letter you honourd me with dated the 15th of may I rote to Mr Lewis but not having Received any answer and not knowing of any oppertunity of passing his note to him except by addressing myself to you induced me again to trouble you wich Liberty I hope you will pardon if your honour will be so good as to favour me with a Line you will be pleased to Direct to No. 56 Lombart Street Phila.” (ALS, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters). DuBarry’s letter to GW dated 13 June and the enclosed note have not been found. GW’s letter to DuBarry dated 15 May also has not been found.

GW replied to DuBarry on 3 Aug.: “Your letter of the 28th of July came to my hands by the last Post. The other, which you allude to, was presented to me at Wilmington as I passed through that place, abt the middle of June. I did not answer it; for in truth I had not time; nor did I know where to direct a letter to you.

“As soon as I arrived at this place, I sent your letter (wch I received at Wilmington) to Mr. Howel Lewis, informing him that his note was in my hands; & that I would receive the money & transmit it to you. I have heard nothing from him since, but his Brother in Fredericksburgh (to whose care I sent the letter) wrote me, that Howell had gone (on a journey) into the upper Country.

“If I should receive the money on your note, before I leave this, it shall be paid to you when I return to Philadelphia; which will be by the first of September; If I should not, I shall return the note, and you must pursue legal measures to obtain payment as I can have no further Agency in the Business” (ALS, in private hands). GW’s letter to Howell Lewis has not been found, but it probably was the one enclosed with his letter to George Lewis dated 27 June. The letter that George Lewis sent GW also has not been found.

GW then wrote Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., from Mount Vernon on 5 Aug.: “The enclosed letter from a Mrs A. L. Dubarry (whom I never saw in my life) and one from Major George Lewis, will shew you what is to be done with the hundred Dollar note enclosed in the letter of the latter.

“By the continuance of the Mail that brought Major Lewis’s letter to me I inform’d the above named Mrs Dubarry that I had wrote to Howell Lewis as soon as I got to Mount Vernon, but had heard nothing from him; that I should return his note to her, when I got back to Philadelphia; and that, she must have recourse to a Court of Justice; as I cd have no further Agency in the business.

“I request that you would immediately find her out (by the direction in her own letter); Shew her Major Lewis’ letter; & take her receipt for the money you pay. Howell Lewis’s note was given to a Mr Chodkewiez the former husband of Mrs Dubarry; it may be proper therefore, that some enquiry be made after her present one, at the time you pay the money; that caution may be observed. But as she appears to be in distress, by her manner of writing, let there be no delay in the payment. The note of hand for this money is dated 21st of March 1793 and ought, in my opinion to have been discharged with interest; and so I shall write Major Lewis.

“Enclosed also, you will find another letter to me from One Wilhelm Louis Wernecke, with the answer (open) wch Mr Craik by my direction has given—Seal & contrive it to him, if you can find where he lives” (ALS, ViHi: Robert Traylor Papers).

Dandridge replied to GW from Philadelphia on 10 Aug.: “Your letter of the 5 inst: with its enclosures was received yesterday forenoon. Agreeably to your direction I waited on Mrs Dubarry in the afternoon, shewed her Major Lewis’ letter, and paid her the $100 which it covered, as you will see by her rect now enclosed. I thought it best (& she did not object to it) to take her rect in full—the Interest, if Mr Lewis thinks proper to allow it, can be paid her notwithstanding. Her present husband M. Dubarry was with her during my visit—he is a man of genteel appearance. I also found the lodgings of Mr Wernecke, & was informed by the lady of the house that he had gone to Virginia a few days ago, to look after the Estate which he has been in pursuit of. I retain the letter for him therefore, supposing it of no consequence that he should have it” (ALS, DLC:GW; see also Wilhelm Louis Wernecke to GW, 24 July, and notes 3 and 4 to that document). Dandridge enclosed a copy of the receipt given Anne DuBarry on 9 Aug.: “Received of Mr Howell Lewis of Virginia, through the hands of B. Dandridge one hundred Dollars; being in full discharge of a note of hand dated the 21st of March 1793 given by said Lewis to my former husband Mr Chodkewiez” (DLC:GW).

3. George Lewis replied to GW from Fredericksburg, Va., on 4 May: “The last post brought me your letter of the 28th of last month, covering one with other papers to my Brother Howell, which I delivered. he express’d much concern that you should have been applyed to on the buisness contained and conceived it to be a rude attempt, to exact from you money which they might have had, and has ever been ready provided a proper application had been made for it, I think he observed, that he had passed a note or bond for the money which he wished to have got, before he would pay any order, that the note was originally given to some man who had transfered it to others, that by paying the money without getting his note, he might be placed in a disagreable situation, however he is determin’d to forward the money immediately, by some person going to Philadelphia.

“Mrs Lewis is returned to town, but still in bad health, we shall leave this so soon as our district court terminates (which is now setting) for Mr Carters in Culpeper county, in hopes that the ride and change of air will contribute in restoreing her to health again—she joins me in love and best wishes to my Aunt” (ALS, ViMtvL).

George Lewis subsequently wrote GW from Fredericksburg on 1 Aug.: “The inclos’d bill of one hundred dollars was sent me yesterday by my Brother Howell, with a request that I should forward it to you, He is much concerned that you should have been so troubled in this buisness—Your letter informing him, of his note being in your possession; did not reach him in Culpeper untill some few dayes since, otherwise he observes, the money should have been forwarded without delay.

“Please tender my love to my Aunt” (ALS, ViMtvL). GW’s letter to Howell Lewis has not been found, but the note almost certainly was the one that Anne DuBarry sent GW (see n.2 above).

George Lewis again wrote GW from Fredericksburg on 7 Aug.: “Last evenings post brought me your letter acknowledging the receipt of my letter of the first instant with a bank note of one hundred dollars on Acct of my Brother Howell—his absence prevents my saying any thing with respect to the interest, which he certainly ought to have consider’d when he forwarded the principal, he is at present over the ridge with his family. by the first opportunity, I shall make acquainted with the contents of your last letter.

“Mrs Lewis unites in best wishes to you and My Aunt” (ALS, ViMtvL; the cover of this letter is marked “Free” and “Dumfries 10th August”). GW’s letter to George Lewis has not been found.