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To George Washington from Hill, Lamar, & Hill, 28 February 1762

From Hill, Lamar, & Hill

Madeira 28th Feby 1762

Sir

Inclosed you have a Bill of Loading for a pipe of pale wine shiped by order of Messrs Moorey Cary & Compy which we doubt not proving to your Satisfaction a few months hence having been carefully selected.1 It is 40/ ⅌ pipe cheaper than the particular wines of last year & promises to be much better than any we saw of the former vintage.

We shall value on those Gent. for the Cost as at bottom.2 We are very respectfully, Sir Your most obliged humb: Servts

Hill Lamar & Hill

No. GWA1

A pipe of wine £28. 0.0
10 @Ct for Virga gauge 2.16.0
£30.16.  Stg

LS, DLC:GW.

1. For GW’s order, see GW to Robert Cary & Co., 1–6 Aug. 1761. John Moorey was partner in the Cary company.

2. GW received the wine in June and seems not to have been pleased with it. See GW to Robert Cary & Co., 20 June, 30 Sept. 1762, and GW to Mayne, Burn, & Mayne, 6 Aug. 1762.

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    To George Washington from Hill, Lamar, & Hill, 28 February 1762
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    Washington, George
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    28 February 1762

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    “To George Washington from Hill, Lamar, & Hill, 28 February 1762,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-07-02-0065. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 7, 1 January 1761 – 15 June 1767, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990, p. 116.]

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