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.