1From George Washington to Thomas Walker, 11 November 1755 (Washington Papers)
You are hereby ordered to proceed with the utmost dispatch to Winchester, where you will receive the Orders left there by me, which you are, as soon as possible, to execute. The Cattle I shall leave entirely to you; to order up altogether or in small droves, as you shall think proper. You are to set up Advertisements, at all the most public places convenient to the Fort, for the Inhabitants to...
2From George Washington to Thomas Walker, 18 November 1755 (Washington Papers)
As Captain Hogg has purchased a sufficient quantity of Beef for his Company at Fort Dinwiddie, you are to send him sixty pounds by the paymaster, or any other safe hand, in order to pay for it. You are to acquaint him, that if that sum is not sufficient, that he is to draw on you for the balance: &c. LB , DLC:GW . On 8 Nov. Capt. Peter Hog estimated that he had on hand for the 1st company of...
3To George Washington from Thomas Walker, 26 November 1755 (Washington Papers)
I received the instructions you left here, last night Colo. Stephens being at Connigochig occasioned my not having them Sooner—I have made enquiry into the state of the Cattle Under the care of Mr Shepherd & Capt. Perry and am told by Capt. Perry and others that many of them are so weak they cannot be drove to Fort Cumberland. those that are fit to Slaughter I shall order up as fast as Salt...
4From George Washington to Thomas Walker, 3 December 1755 (Washington Papers)
I received yours by Lieutenant Lemon, and am sorry to find that the Carolina Beeves are so unfit for Slaughtering: of this I was informed in a late Letter from Colonel Stephen: in consequence I desired him to assist you with his advice, either to kill & salt, or feed them this winter; as Mr Dick entered into contract with Shepherd, whose all I believe, depends upon my confirming or rejecting...
5To George Washington from Thomas Walker, 4 December 1755 (Washington Papers)
I have ordered all the Cattle that are fit for Slaughter to Fort Cumberland in two droves have bargained for wintering some and stall feeding some. Colo. Stephen has agreed with Lord Fairfax for ten. The other weak ones I have instructed Mr Andrew Shepherd to bargain in my behalf for the Wintering. I have offered fifteen Shilling Per hundred for Pork Delivered at Fort Cumberland and cannot...
6To George Washington from Thomas Walker, 17 December 1755 (Washington Papers)
I have done the best in my power with the Carolina Cattle, Having killed ten of the best that was brought up and finding them unfit for use drove the others up to Daniel Cresaps Plantation which is the best chance we have of keeping them alive—As I could not engage the wintering of them below through the scarcity of Fodder. Some are left below & some on the south Branch to winter. Some are...
7To George Washington from Thomas Walker, 17 December 1755 (Washington Papers)
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. If Mr Rutherford wants any direction beg you will give such as you think proper & oblige your Most Humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW . Walker had recently made Robert Rutherford commissary in Winchester in the place of John Jones ( Walker...
8To George Washington from Thomas Walker, 26 December 1755 (Washington Papers)
I have got most of the Cattle slaughtered except those that were under the care of Shepherd & Perry, and to my great satisfaction assure you those we now kill are better than they were in august, Occasioned by the Corn remai[ni]ng in the Fields of the poor unhappy Familys that are Slaughtered or captivated by our Savage enemys. Most of Shepherds & Perrys I am in hopes to keep alive at a small...
9From George Washington to Thomas Walker, 3 January 1756 (Washington Papers)
Let Ensign Smiths Recruit have Clothes, arms, &c. LB , DLC:GW .
10From George Washington to Thomas Walker, 10 January 1756 (Washington Papers)
Instructions for Mr Commissary Walker. You are to lay in at Cockes and Ashby’s Forts, three months provision. As I can not yet determine where Store and Smoke-Houses are to be built; I would have you do the best you can, until you hear from me again. You are to provide three or four months provision to be carried on horse-back. If the Flour at Conongogee, should be demanded by the Kings...