1Cash Accounts, 1761 (Washington Papers)
Cash For 1761 To Cash received of severals for Sundrys viz. Smiths work of Sundrys £ 7.15. 4 1/2 Bonds &ca Interest of Apl 18 P[hilip] W[hitehead] Claiborne 14. 0. 0 Do Wm Dandridge 22. 0. 0 Do Mrs [Joanna] McKenzie 10.16. 0 Do Colo. Ber[nard] Moore 210. 0. 0 Novr 27 Francis Foster
2From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 6 March 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 6 Mar. 1761. On 30 Oct. Fairfax wrote to GW : “Your favors of the ... 6th of March ... and first of Augt came very safe to hand.”
3From George Washington to Robert Stewart, 27 March 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Robert Stewart, 27 Mar. 1761. On 6 April Stewart wrote to GW : “I have just had the great pleasure of receiving your agreeable Favour of the 27th Ulto.”
4From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 3 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 15th Septr, which is the last Letter that I have receivd from you, now lyes before me —By some neglect or other my Bills of Lading for the Tobo pr the Deliverance never came to my hands for which Reason I send you in lieu thereof a Certificate from the Collector of His Majesty’s Customs of the Tobacco Shipd in that Vessell by me which I am told will answer the same purpose...
5From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 3 April 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 3 April 1761. On 30 Oct. Fairfax wrote to GW : “Your favors of the . . . 3d of Apl . . . and first of Augt came very safe to hand.”
6From George Washington to James Gildart, 3 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
Several of your favours now lye before me, but the last of Novr 9th I shall particularly take notice of —with astonishment then did I receive the Account of Sales of that Hhd Tobo pr the Everton where only £8.4.1¼ is renderd for it at the sametime that Mr Cary was selling the like Tobo at £17 & 18£ a Hhd. As to the exceptions which for two or three years past you have made to the quality of...
7From George Washington to John Moorey, 3 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
I receivd your Letter of the 3d Jany at this place —when I return to Potomack which will be in about fourteen days, I shall enquire for Robt Horner, whose place of abode I am at present as much a stranger to as I am to his person, but will endeavour to find him out and do the needful in Charnoch and Ballmans Draft. If there is any thing else in which you can find me useful—Command without...
8From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 3 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
Before I left home I shipd 18 Hhds of my Potomack Tobacco on Board the Bland Captn Hugh Wylie now lying in Rappahanock River on which please to Insure £140 only This Ship is a Letter of Marque, carry’s 18 Six pounders and well Mand for which Reasons I do not secure the full value of my Tobacco by Insurance judging by the same parity of Reasoning that the Premio will also be moderate—The Ship...
9From George Washington to Van Swearingen, 15 May 1761 (Washington Papers)
At the Cock fight on Saturday last I promis’d to be at a Wedding at Mendenhall’s Mill Yesterday, which together with an Affair that I had to settle on Bullskin (that detain’d me a day longer there than I expected) prevented my taking Shepherds Town and your House on my Way, I intend this day to pass along the North Mountain, and to morrow attend a Meeting at McGills on the Cumberland Road, and...
10Memorandum List of Tithables, 4 June 1761 (Washington Papers)
A List of Tithables in Fairfax County given in June 4th 1761 George Washington Ho. Servants: Breechy, Schomberg, Jack, Nat, Doll, Jenny, Betty, Phillis, Moll, Sall. Carpenters: Turner Crump, Jno. Askew, Will, Morris, George, Anthony, Michael, Tom, Sam. Smiths: Peter, London. Home Plantn: George, Ned Holt, Ben, Will, Will, Jack, Jack, Charles, Kate. Muddy ho. Pln: Edw Violette, Grig, Dublin,...
11Enclosure: Account with Thomas Lawson, 19–28 June 1761 (Washington Papers)
Dr Colo. George Washington in Accot with Thos Lawson March 18th To 5 Barrs of Iron sent you at this date Wt 160 @4d. £ 2.13.4 June 19th To 88 Barrs of Iron now sent Wt 1T. 0C. 0Q.4W. 30/ 30. 1.3 £32.14.7 E. Excepted pr Thos Lawson June 28th 1761 Then Recd ⟨the⟩ above Sum of Thirty two poun⟨ds⟩ 14 & 7 for the use of M⟨r Tho.⟩ Lawson. D , ICHi . The receipt is written in GW’s hand and signed...
12From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 5 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
The Fleet is arrivd but some Ships are missing, among which number Captn Jno. Johnston happens to be one, and a report prevails that he is taken, but from whence it arises I really cant say. I believe it is conjecture only, but at the sametime I must observe it is a conjecture founded upon very probable Circumstances since the Fleet has been in 14 or 15 days and no accounts of him. Receiving...
13From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 14 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 20th March came to my hands 3 days ago. I have never receivd any Letter from you by the Industry unless that of the 15th of last September (acknowledg’d in mine of the 3d of April from Williamsburg) prooves to be it. I gave you my Reason in the 3d aforesaid how it came to pass that you were without a Bill of Loading for the Tobacco in the Deliverance, and at the sametime...
14From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 14 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
This serves to address a copy of my last, and at the sametime to inform you that I have just receivd advice from my Steward of the Tobacco which he has put on Board the Argo; amounting in the whole to Seventy Hhds; Thirty of which belongs to me, and the rest to my Ward Jno. Parke Custis. You will please to make a proper Insurance thereon, and as you may readily perceive how much the usual...
15From George Washington to Richard Washington, 14 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
Since my last by Mr Fairfax I have had the pleasure of receiving your obliging favours of the 16th October and first of January following. A Mixture of bad Health and Indolence together; has kept me from paying that due respect to your Letters which I am sure they much merited at my hands, till this time, and now having nothing to relate that coud in any wise claim your attention I think I was...
16From George Washington to Andrew Burnaby, 27 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
Dear Sir,—Your obliging favour of the 14th of April I had the pleasure to receive about the 10th inst. The news of your safe arrival in London was often confirmed to me by the Governor and others, or else I should have felt a very singular pleasure in the account of it from yourself. If apologies are necessary, I certainly have the greatest reason to make one, for my silence till now, a...
17From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 27 July 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 27 July 1761. On 30 Oct. Fairfax wrote to GW : “Your favors of the . . . 27th of July and first of Augt came very safe to hand.”
18From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 1 August 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 1 Aug. 1761. On 30 Oct. Fairfax wrote to GW : “Your favors of the . . . 27th of July and first of Augt came very safe to hand.”
19From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 1–6 August 1761 (Washington Papers)
When I wrote to you on the 14th Ulto neither your Letters nor my Goods by Captn Johnston were come to hand. now both are receivd; and I must beg leave to point out some mistakes which I have discoverd in them. and first in regard to the Accounts which you sent. In these there are several Errors which need rectifying as you will perceive by perusing the Inclosd Accounts —Copied from my Books,...
20Advertisement for Runaway Slaves, 11 August 1761 (Washington Papers)
Ran away from a Plantation of the Subscriber’s, on Dogue Run in Fairfax , on Sunday the 9th Instant, the following Negroes, viz . Peros , 35 or 40 Years of Age, a well-set Fellow, of about 5 Feet 8 Inches high, yellowish Complexion, with a very full round Face, and full black Beard, his Speech is something slow and broken, but not in so great a Degree as to render him remarkable. He had on...
21From George Washington to Charles Green, 26–30 August 1761 (Washington Papers)
I shoud think myself very inexcusable were I to omit so good an oppertunity as Mr Douglass’s return from these Springs, of giving you some Account of the place, and of Our Approaches to it. To begin then—We arrivd here yesterday, and our Journey (as you may imagine) was not of the most agreable sort, through such Weather & such Roads as we had to encounter; these last for 20 or 25 Miles from...
22From George Washington to John Moorey, 23 September 1761 (Washington Papers)
I don’t doubt but you have thought me very negligent in giving you no account of my Proceedings with Horner in regard to your order upon him. His living in another Provence and at a considerable distance from me, add to this an Indisposition which has prevented my travelling abroad and transacting business of almost any kind since I wrote you from Williamsburg in April last, has of course...
23From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 23 September 1761 (Washington Papers)
An Indisposition which I have been under 3 or 4 Months inducd me to take a trip Northward to try the effects of Exercise and our Mountain Air upon my disorder —I find some benefit from the Journey—but not returning till within these few days I came too late to make out and send my Invoices by the Fleet. however no disappointment of Goods will follow from thence I hope because there will be...
24From George Washington to John Moorey, 1 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Since mine of the 23d Ulto the Inclosd Bill from my friend, who I instructed to negotiate the business with Horner, is come to hand and with this remark. “You have Inclosd, Bills of Exchange for £30.15 from Mr Horner in payment of that debt you were empowered to receive from him. you will please observe he has only sent two Setts, and says in his Letter to me that he keeps the other two for...
25From George Washington to John Didsbury, 12 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Inclosd you have my measure for Boots—please therefore to send me two pair of them; one of which made of stout strong Leather for Winters use, the other pair to be light and thin for Summer—both pair Shoe Boots—likewise send me two pair of neat turnd Pumps and four pair of neat, but at the sametime strong Shoes—Mr Cary will pay the amount and I am Sir Yr Very Hble Servt ALB , DLC:GW . These...
26From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 12 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Herewith you will receive sundry Invoices for Goods wanted, those for my own and the Childrens use please to send by Captn Johnston or the first Vessell bound for this River in the Spring—Mrs Dandridges must go in a Ship for York —I cannot make out an Account of the necessarys which may be wanting for my own and Master Custis’s Plantations on York River till I go down there which will happen...
27Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 12 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Invoice of Sundry Goods to be sent by Robert Cary Esqr. and Co. for the use of George Washington—Virginia 800 Ells Oznabrigs 300 Yds best Cotton 4 pieces best Dutch Blanketting 2 pieces Fearnought 4 dozn pr very large Pld Hose 4 dozn pr of a Size Smaller 2 dozn pair for boys & Girls 2 pieces of Irish Linnen @3/6 1 piece ditto @2/ 2 pieces ditto @1/ 1 piece Irish Oznab: to be soft & white...
28From George Washington to Richard Washington, 20 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Since my last of the 14th July I have in appearance been very near my last gasp—The Indisposition then spoken of Increasd upon me and I fell into a very low and dangerous State—I once thought the grim King woud certainly master my utmost efforts and that I must sink in spite of a noble struggle but thank God I have now got the better of the disorder and shall soon be restord I hope to perfect...
29II. Adjusted Account of the Estate of Daniel Parke Custis, April 1762 (Washington Papers)
The Estate of Daniel Parke Custis Esquire Dr. Current Sterling 1761 To Robert Cary & Co. for Fees paid at the Bank .10.6 for Goods sent from Scotland 13. 7.0 for Impost & Cocket of 50 hhds of Tobo lost in the Cary 5. 1. 18.18.6 1762 To Joseph Valentine for so much paid Henry Weatherborne £ 1. 4.0 for so much paid Thomas Hornsby 1.13.6 2.17. 6
30III. Guardian Accounts, 12 April 1762 (Washington Papers)
Mr John Parke Custis Dr Current Sterling 1761 To Balle of your Acct then Settled & approvd of by the Genl Court 293. 2.11 10/12 Nov. 5 To the Estates Acct as above 6. 6. 2 To 2/3 of £151.3.–3/4 the Amount of Goods Shipd by Gildart for your Negroes 100.15. 4 1/2 To Goods by Boyes for the use of your Plantations & Negroes pr Robert Cary & Co. 72. 3. 1 To Robert Cary & Co. for Goods by Johnson...