George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Thomas Walker, 17 December 1755

From Thomas Walker

Fort Cumberland [Md.]
10ber [December] the 17 1755

Sr

If you will lodge one Hundred pounds in the Hands of Mr Robert Rutherford to Pay for such Necessarys as may be wanted for the Servis I will be accountable for it.1 If Mr Rutherford wants any direction beg you will give such as you think proper & oblige your Most Humble Servant

Thomas Walker

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. Walker had recently made Robert Rutherford commissary in Winchester in the place of John Jones (Walker to GW, 4 Dec. 1755).

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    To George Washington from Thomas Walker, 17 December 1755
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    Walker, Thomas
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    Washington, George
    Date
    17 December 1755

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    “To George Washington from Thomas Walker, 17 December 1755,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-02-02-0222. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 2, 14 August 1755 – 15 April 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983, p. 223.]

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