To George Washington from Thomas Walker, 17 December 1755
From Thomas Walker
Fort Cumberland [Md.]
10ber [December] the 17 1755
Sr
If you will lodge one Hundred pounds in the Hands of Mr Robert Rutherford to Pay for such Necessarys as may be wanted for the Servis I will be accountable for it.1 If Mr Rutherford wants any direction beg you will give such as you think proper & oblige your Most Humble Servant
Thomas Walker
ALS, DLC:GW.
1. Walker had recently made Robert Rutherford commissary in Winchester in the place of John Jones (Walker to GW, 4 Dec. 1755).