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To George Washington from Amos Strettell, 4 August 1772

From Amos Strettell

Philada 4th August 1772

Sir,

By yesterdays post I recd a Letter from our mutual good Friend Coll Fielding Lewis—ordering £600 Pensilva. Currency Insurance For your acct on 273 Barls Supfine Burr Flour shippd on board the Brigt. Fairfax Samuel Brodie M[aste]r, but as I am not advisd where she is bound, nor cannot by any means discover, as the Ship Entrys are not printed in the late Virginia papers,1 I am obligd to wait his or your Information; on rect whereof, my best Endeavours shall be us’d to procure your Insurance on the most Favourable terms2 wch may be in the power of Sir, Your very Hble servt

Amos Strettell

No time should be lost in advising me where the Brigt. is bound to.

ALS, DLC:GW.

Amos Strettell (1720-1780) was a Philadelphia merchant and alderman, who had served one term in the Pennsylvania legislature.

1. See GW to Daniel Jenifer Adams, 20 July, n.1.

2. See Strettell to GW, 18 August. On 30 Aug. GW entered the following in his Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends : “Credit Colo. Fieldg Lewis by Amos Strettell Esqr. of Phila. for Premo of Inse on Flour 600£ Pensa—£18.5.0.”

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    To George Washington from Amos Strettell, 4 August 1772
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    “To George Washington from Amos Strettell, 4 August 1772,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-09-02-0062. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 9, 8 January 1772 – 18 March 1774, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, p. 79.]

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