1Memorandum from Committee to Supervise Military Expenditures, 8–11 November 1755 (Washington Papers)
At a Committee held pursuant to an Act of Assembly Intituled “An Act, For raising the Sum of Forty Thousand Pounds for the protection of his Majestys Subjects in the Frontiers of this Colony.” November the 8th & 11th 1755. Resolved That the sum of £10,000 be lodged in the hands of Colonel George Washington as a Military Chest, out of which he is to pay the Pay Master, and Commissary; (& to...