31From 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...
32From 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...
33To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 20 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
Camp at Stalnaker’s on Holstein River My dear Colo. 20th July 1761 Two days after the Date of my last we March’d from Fort Chiswell (where Stephen, Woodward & their Compys remain) and after a March of six Days we Joind Majr Lewis at this place where I understand a Post is to be Built. On the 16th two runners from the little Carpenter came into Camp, the Day following himself with 42 of his...
34From 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...
35From 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.”
36From 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.”
37From 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,...
38To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 10 August 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 10 Aug. 1761. On 28 May 1762 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co. : “Your unacknowledged favours of . . . 10th Augt . . . and the 19th of Octr following now lye before [me].”
39Advertisement 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...
40From 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...
41To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 16 September 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 16 Sept. 1761. On 28 May 1762 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co. : “Your unacknowledged favours of the . . . 16 & 19th Septr . . . now lye before [me].”
42To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 17 September 1761 (Washington Papers)
I arrived here last Saturday in Compy with Doctor Stuart who laid a State of your case before Doctor Macleane and now send you their opinions But as the changes to which your Disorder are Subject and the distance of Time and Place may probably in some measure destroy the efficacy of what they prescribe I would earnestly beg leave to recommend your coming here as soon as the circumstances of...
43To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 19 September 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 19 Sept. 1761. On 28 May 1762 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co. : “Your unacknowledged favours of the . . . 16 & 19th Septr . . . now lye before [me].”
44From 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...
45From 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...
46To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 1 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Inclos’d we have sent thy Accot Current to 1st Augt last—please to Examine the same, and not to omit advising us if it proves right, if otherwise please to point out the Error and it shall be rectify’d. With concern we remark that it is sometime since we were favour’d with any Tobacco from Thee but we hope by Hylton or Esten for a renewal of thy Consignment and in the Sale thereof great Care...
47From 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...
48From 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...
49From 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...
50Enclosure: 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...
51To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 19 October 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 19 Oct. 1761. On 28 May 1762 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co. : “Your unacknowledged favours of the 26th June . . . and the 19th of Octr following now lye before [me].”
52From 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...
53Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
[21 October 1761–3 November 1773] I. Washington’s Appointment as Guardian, 21 October 1761 II. Adjusted Account of the Estate of Daniel Parke Custis, April 1762 III. Guardian Accounts, 12 April 1762 Editorial Note GW’s guardian accounts span eleven years, from 1762 to 1773. The division and settlement of the estate of Daniel Parke Custis in 1761 created three separate estates: (1) Martha...
54I. Washington’s Appointment as Guardian, 21 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
At a General Court held at the Capitol the Twenty first day of October One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty one. George Washington Esqr. is appointed Guardian to John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis Infants, Orphans of Daniel Parke Custis Esqr. deceasd and thereupon he together with Peyton Randolph Ralph Wormeley and Burwell Bassett Esqr. his Securities entered into and acknowledgd Bond...
55II. 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
56III. 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...
57Agreement with John Askew, 22 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
This Indenture made this Twenty 2d Day of October in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty one Between John Askew, Joiner of the County of Fairfax of the one part and George Washington of the County of Fairfax Gentleman of the other part Witnesseth That the said John Askew for and in consideration of the Sum of Thirty eight pounds Seventeen shillgs & Eleven pence to him in...
58To George Washington from George William Fairfax, 30 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Your favors of the 2d of Decr 6th of March 3d of Apl 27th of July and first of Augt came very safe to hand. In that of July I am sorry to find that you were in such a bad state of health, and that neither Mr Greens nor Hamiltons prescriptions had then the desired effect. The latters it seems you had but just begun and consequently could not expect an immediate cure, but I hope long before this...
59From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 3 November 1761 (Washington Papers)
I came to this place last Night, and find that the Articles containd in the Inclosd Invoices are wanted for mine and Master Custis’s Plantation’s on York River, please therefore to send them as there directed and charge the amounts to our respective Accounts. We have little or no News stirring, our Assembly is at present Convend to grant Supplies for carrying on the War against the Cherokee...
60From George Washington to Peter Stover, 9 November 1761 (Washington Papers)
I gave your Petition into the Assembly on Friday last which was receivd, and a Bill ordered to be brought in for establishing a Town according to the prayer of it—this Bill was to have come into the House on Saturday but whether it did or not I can’t certainly say, as I was too sick to attend the whole day, notwithstanding I went there for that purpose; however as there was no danger of An act...