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From George Washington to Webster & Son, 15 July 1772

To Webster & Son

[July 15th 1772]

Memm

The Inclos’d new Watch Key, is one of the 3 wch were sent me last year by Webster & Son in consequence of my desiring them to be very neat1—the other two are exactly like it, & chargd at 1/6 each, when I could have bought as many as I pleasd in the Shops here (rather neater) at 6d. or 7½ a piece this Cy. I again wish to have two very different from this Common sort—to be of the size of the old one, & one of them to work like it, the other as the new one; but both to be of the best kind, & much handsomer and neater than either.2

G. W——n

ALB, DLC:GW. This memorandum was written at the end of GW’s invoice to Cary of this date.

Webster & Son were watchmakers at 26 Change Alley, London.

1. The three keys are listed in the Invoice from Robert Cary & Co., 3 Dec. 1771.

2. Cary’s invoice of 29 Sept. 1772 lists from Webster & Son “A watch Key” for 1s. 6d.

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    From George Washington to Webster & Son, 15 July 1772
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    Washington, George
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    15 July 1772

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    “From George Washington to Webster & Son, 15 July 1772,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-09-02-0051. [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, pp. 67–68.]