1From George Washington to Robert McMickan, 12 January 1773 (Washington Papers)
The Inclosed Letter, is occasiond by a Paragraph in one of your Letters to Messrs Robert Adam & Co.; and I should be obliged to you to make use of it, or not, as circumstances may require; for it is not my wish to proceed to any harsh or rigorous measures by which a Man just setting out in Trade may be injurd if there is a possibility of avoiding it. The Inconsistency however in Adams’s...
2From George Washington to Robert McMickan, 12 January 1773 (Washington Papers)
In July last I shipd 273 Barrls of Flour in the Brig Fairfax Saml Brodie Master for Barbadoes; or, in case of bad Markets there, to Jamaica, and consignd them to Mr D. Jenefir Adams who went in the Vessell, and was part owner thereof; directing the proceeds (together with £86.5.0 Virga Curry or £69 Sterg Excha: 25 prCt being the amount of 115 Barls of Herrings sold him & to be paid for in the...
3From George Washington to Robert McMickan, 12 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
On the 12th Ulto I troubled you with a Letter respecting my Consignment of Flour to D: J: Adams in the Brig Fairfax to which I beg leave to refer; since the date thereof I have been advis’d to send a more Authentick power of Attorney; which I now do, and shall, if you can serve me in this affair acknowledge it as a very singular favr. It is not in my power to make out an Acct with any...
4From George Washington to Robert McMickan, February 1773 (Washington Papers)
You will be surprizd perhaps at the frequency of my Letters—I wish I had less cause to be troublesome to you—but having receivd Information of late, that my Affairs in the hands of Mr D: J: Adams are in a very desperate way, & vigorous measures necessary to be pursued, I send you a Copy of the power of Attorney which I forwarded on the 12th Inst. to Norfolk (in order to get the Seal of the...
5From George Washington to Robert McMickan, 14 June 1773 (Washington Papers)
Your favours of the 29th of March, and 8th of April are now before me, but did not reach my hands till the 10th Instt as I only returnd from New York the 8th after an absence of 30 odd days from home. I think myself exceedingly obliged to you for the care and attention you have given to the business I took the liberty of employing you in but fear it will avail me little. Mr Carlyle in my...
6From George Washington to Robert McMickan, 20 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to you on the 14th Ulto to which I refer, having heard nothing from, or of, Danl Jenifer Adams since. By the Swift Lawe Sanford Master I consign you 500 Bushls of Indian Corn which please to sell for the highest price you can get, and after sending me the several articles under written, remit me the Balle in Cash by return of the Vessell. I should be glad also to receive the other...