1Cash Accounts, 1761 (Washington Papers)
Cash For 1761 To Cash received of severals for Sundrys viz. Smiths work of Sundrys £ 7.15. 4 1/2 Bonds &ca Interest of Apl 18 P[hilip] W[hitehead] Claiborne 14. 0. 0 Do Wm Dandridge 22. 0. 0 Do Mrs [Joanna] McKenzie 10.16. 0 Do Colo. Ber[nard] Moore 210. 0. 0 Novr 27 Francis Foster
2To George Washington from Richard Washington, 1 January 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Washington, 1 Jan. 1761. On 14 July 1761 GW wrote to Washington : “I have had the pleasure of receiving your obliging favours of the 16th October and first of January following.”
3To George Washington from John Moorey, 3 January 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Moorey, 3 Jan. 1761. On 3 April GW wrote to Moorey : “I receivd your Letter of the 3d Jany.”
4To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 15 February 1761 (Washington Papers)
I arrivd here the 11th Inst. after the most severe and longest Campaign I ever Serv’d and the excessive pleasure I enjoy by hearing of your welfare rises in proportion to the great uneasiness I from a dread of the reverse was long under, not only, by the uncommon Secession of your so much desir’d, till then uninterupted, & truely valuable Corrispondence, but, my not being able to learn any...
5From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 6 March 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 6 Mar. 1761. On 30 Oct. Fairfax wrote to GW : “Your favors of the ... 6th of March ... and first of Augt came very safe to hand.”
6To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 12 March 1761 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to your desire I send you Inclos’d a List of such things as the Regiment is most and in immediate want off, I could not get an accot of their cost, but it may be known from the Commissioners for exaiming the Regimental accots who no doubt are poss’d of the original accots Colo. Byrd gave in I likewise transmit you my Sentiments on the affairs we talk’d off at parting, which I fear...
7To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 12 March 1761 (Washington Papers)
I on many accots am encourag’d to take the liberty of Inclosing You a List of several indispensably requisite accutrements and Necessaries for the Regiment, which are not yet provided, and which we ought to receive previously to our Marching, it is needless to inform you of who so perfectly knows their utility & how much the Men would be Distress’d by wanting them, which, and their small...
8To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 20 March 1761 (Washington Papers)
Since we wrote ⅌ the Industry thy favr of Aug: 10 is come to hand. Thy Account has Credit for thy proportion of the Average of the Goods in the Supply £5.13.0 & is the whole that will ever come out of that troublesome & useless Affair. We are yet without a Bill of Lading for 20 Hhds Tobo lost in the Deliverance. the not forwarding it or an attestd Coppy of it ⟨ illegible ⟩ for the underwriters...
9To George Washington from George Bowdon, 24 March 1761 (Washington Papers)
This I hope will be Convey’d to you by Capt. John Marshall in the Snow Virginian, who is again destined into Potomac River by Messrs Crosbies & Trafford to make farther Interest in the Tobacco Comm. way —and as I shall transact this branch of Business for these Gentlemen, I take this oppertunity in Acquainting you as well as my other Friends, that if you’ll be kind enough to favour Capt....
10From George Washington to Robert Stewart, 27 March 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Robert Stewart, 27 Mar. 1761. On 6 April Stewart wrote to GW : “I have just had the great pleasure of receiving your agreeable Favour of the 27th Ulto.”
11Invoice from Robert Cary & Company, 31 March 1761 (Washington Papers)
Invoice of Goods markd & numbred as pr Margin Shipd on Board the Polly John Johnston Master for Virginia on the proper acct and risque of Colo. George Washington, and to him Consignd. Theodosia Crowley & Co. Iron 10 M 4d. Nails @2/4½ [£] 1. 3. 9 5 M 6d. Ditto @3/7 .17.11 20 M 8d. Ditto @4/7 4.11. 8 1 M 30d. Ditto @ .18. Cask
12From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 3 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 15th Septr, which is the last Letter that I have receivd from you, now lyes before me —By some neglect or other my Bills of Lading for the Tobo pr the Deliverance never came to my hands for which Reason I send you in lieu thereof a Certificate from the Collector of His Majesty’s Customs of the Tobacco Shipd in that Vessell by me which I am told will answer the same purpose...
13From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 3 April 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 3 April 1761. On 30 Oct. Fairfax wrote to GW : “Your favors of the . . . 3d of Apl . . . and first of Augt came very safe to hand.”
14From George Washington to James Gildart, 3 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
Several of your favours now lye before me, but the last of Novr 9th I shall particularly take notice of —with astonishment then did I receive the Account of Sales of that Hhd Tobo pr the Everton where only £8.4.1¼ is renderd for it at the sametime that Mr Cary was selling the like Tobo at £17 & 18£ a Hhd. As to the exceptions which for two or three years past you have made to the quality of...
15From George Washington to John Moorey, 3 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
I receivd your Letter of the 3d Jany at this place —when I return to Potomack which will be in about fourteen days, I shall enquire for Robt Horner, whose place of abode I am at present as much a stranger to as I am to his person, but will endeavour to find him out and do the needful in Charnoch and Ballmans Draft. If there is any thing else in which you can find me useful—Command without...
16From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 3 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
Before I left home I shipd 18 Hhds of my Potomack Tobacco on Board the Bland Captn Hugh Wylie now lying in Rappahanock River on which please to Insure £140 only This Ship is a Letter of Marque, carry’s 18 Six pounders and well Mand for which Reasons I do not secure the full value of my Tobacco by Insurance judging by the same parity of Reasoning that the Premio will also be moderate—The Ship...
17To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 6 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
I have just had the great pleasure of receiving your agreeable Favour of the 27th Ulto and am glad that there is some prospect of the Regiment’s being supplied with these necessaries. Capt. McKenzie to the great Joy of the Corps has just rejoin’d us, by him we learn that Colo. Byrd is appointed to Command the Expedition against the Cherokees, and that a Demand of a thousd more Men is made upon...
18To George Washington from Andrew Burnaby, 14 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
I should not have been so long in England without writing to You, had it not happened that I was undetermined whether I should not return to Virginia again: but as I am now come to a fixed determination to continue in these parts, I do myself the pleasure of writing this, to return You my sincerest thanks for all the favours You showed me in America, and with the hopes that You will give me...
19To George Washington from George William Fairfax, 15 April 1761 (Washington Papers)
I came to Town about some business of Colo. Cary’s and could by no means omitt so good an opportunity as by the Convoy to enquire after your & good Mrs Washingtons welfare, and to lett you know that it was with difficulty I gott here, and that poor Mrs Fairfax and I have alternately been confined to our Chambers since we have been in England, but I hope as the warm weather approaches we shall...
20To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 6 May 1761 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday about noon we arriv’d at this place where the loss of some Waggon Horses, want of Provisions for the Waggoners, and Forrage for the Horses oblig’d me to remain last night, I this morning sent to Reconnoitre Cedar Creek which is found immensely swell’d by the heavy Rains and deem’d impassable so that we are likely to remain here at least for this Day. I flatter myself that the Success...
21From George Washington to Van Swearingen, 15 May 1761 (Washington Papers)
At the Cock fight on Saturday last I promis’d to be at a Wedding at Mendenhall’s Mill Yesterday, which together with an Affair that I had to settle on Bullskin (that detain’d me a day longer there than I expected) prevented my taking Shepherds Town and your House on my Way, I intend this day to pass along the North Mountain, and to morrow attend a Meeting at McGills on the Cumberland Road, and...
22To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 2 June 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 2 June 1761. On 12 Oct. GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co. : “Your Letter of June the 2d I receivd.”
23Memorandum List of Tithables, 4 June 1761 (Washington Papers)
A List of Tithables in Fairfax County given in June 4th 1761 George Washington Ho. Servants: Breechy, Schomberg, Jack, Nat, Doll, Jenny, Betty, Phillis, Moll, Sall. Carpenters: Turner Crump, Jno. Askew, Will, Morris, George, Anthony, Michael, Tom, Sam. Smiths: Peter, London. Home Plantn: George, Ned Holt, Ben, Will, Will, Jack, Jack, Charles, Kate. Muddy ho. Pln: Edw Violette, Grig, Dublin,...
24To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 10 June 1761 (Washington Papers)
I had the extreme pleasure to receive your most affectionate Letter containing the Joyous accot of the Election, than the pleasing circumstances of which nothing could have afforded more solid satisfaction[.] Two days preceedg the 18th the Adjutant applied to me for leave to return to Winchester which I absolutely refus’d, however in about 20 hours an Express brought me a positive Order for...
25To George Washington from Thomas Lawson, 19 June 1761 (Washington Papers)
I shoud have sent you a Ton of Iron before now, if I cou’d possibly have induced the Skippers of sundry Vessels I have seen in Occoquan & going towards Alexandria to have carried it up for you —And rather than you shou’d want it any longer, have caused one of our Neabsco Skippers going up to Alexandria to call here for it, and by him have sent you Eighty Eight Barrs weighing T. 1 C.o Q.o 4 W....
26Enclosure: Account with Thomas Lawson, 19–28 June 1761 (Washington Papers)
Dr Colo. George Washington in Accot with Thos Lawson March 18th To 5 Barrs of Iron sent you at this date Wt 160 @4d. £ 2.13.4 June 19th To 88 Barrs of Iron now sent Wt 1T. 0C. 0Q.4W. 30/ 30. 1.3 £32.14.7 E. Excepted pr Thos Lawson June 28th 1761 Then Recd ⟨the⟩ above Sum of Thirty two poun⟨ds⟩ 14 & 7 for the use of M⟨r Tho.⟩ Lawson. D , ICHi . The receipt is written in GW’s hand and signed...
27To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 26 June 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 26 June 1761. On 28 May 1762 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co. : “Your unacknowledged favours of the 26th June . . . and the 19th of Octr following now lye before [me].”
28From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 5 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
The Fleet is arrivd but some Ships are missing, among which number Captn Jno. Johnston happens to be one, and a report prevails that he is taken, but from whence it arises I really cant say. I believe it is conjecture only, but at the sametime I must observe it is a conjecture founded upon very probable Circumstances since the Fleet has been in 14 or 15 days and no accounts of him. Receiving...
29To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 7 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the great pleasure to write you by Mr Jo: Watson from the Camp near Staunton from which we mov’d the day following, and after a tedious and fatigueing March we arriv’d last week at this our most advanc’d Post, about three hundred Miles from Winchester. Major Lewis March’d from hence yesterday with 3 Compys to open the Road leading to Holston’s River, the Colonel myself and 5...
30From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 14 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 20th March came to my hands 3 days ago. I have never receivd any Letter from you by the Industry unless that of the 15th of last September (acknowledg’d in mine of the 3d of April from Williamsburg) prooves to be it. I gave you my Reason in the 3d aforesaid how it came to pass that you were without a Bill of Loading for the Tobacco in the Deliverance, and at the sametime...
31From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 14 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
This serves to address a copy of my last, and at the sametime to inform you that I have just receivd advice from my Steward of the Tobacco which he has put on Board the Argo; amounting in the whole to Seventy Hhds; Thirty of which belongs to me, and the rest to my Ward Jno. Parke Custis. You will please to make a proper Insurance thereon, and as you may readily perceive how much the usual...
32From George Washington to Richard Washington, 14 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
Since my last by Mr Fairfax I have had the pleasure of receiving your obliging favours of the 16th October and first of January following. A Mixture of bad Health and Indolence together; has kept me from paying that due respect to your Letters which I am sure they much merited at my hands, till this time, and now having nothing to relate that coud in any wise claim your attention I think I was...
33To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 20 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
Camp at Stalnaker’s on Holstein River My dear Colo. 20th July 1761 Two days after the Date of my last we March’d from Fort Chiswell (where Stephen, Woodward & their Compys remain) and after a March of six Days we Joind Majr Lewis at this place where I understand a Post is to be Built. On the 16th two runners from the little Carpenter came into Camp, the Day following himself with 42 of his...
34From George Washington to Andrew Burnaby, 27 July 1761 (Washington Papers)
Dear Sir,—Your obliging favour of the 14th of April I had the pleasure to receive about the 10th inst. The news of your safe arrival in London was often confirmed to me by the Governor and others, or else I should have felt a very singular pleasure in the account of it from yourself. If apologies are necessary, I certainly have the greatest reason to make one, for my silence till now, a...
35From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 27 July 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 27 July 1761. On 30 Oct. Fairfax wrote to GW : “Your favors of the . . . 27th of July and first of Augt came very safe to hand.”
36From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 1 August 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 1 Aug. 1761. On 30 Oct. Fairfax wrote to GW : “Your favors of the . . . 27th of July and first of Augt came very safe to hand.”
37From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 1–6 August 1761 (Washington Papers)
When I wrote to you on the 14th Ulto neither your Letters nor my Goods by Captn Johnston were come to hand. now both are receivd; and I must beg leave to point out some mistakes which I have discoverd in them. and first in regard to the Accounts which you sent. In these there are several Errors which need rectifying as you will perceive by perusing the Inclosd Accounts —Copied from my Books,...
38To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 10 August 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 10 Aug. 1761. On 28 May 1762 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co. : “Your unacknowledged favours of . . . 10th Augt . . . and the 19th of Octr following now lye before [me].”
39Advertisement for Runaway Slaves, 11 August 1761 (Washington Papers)
Ran away from a Plantation of the Subscriber’s, on Dogue Run in Fairfax , on Sunday the 9th Instant, the following Negroes, viz . Peros , 35 or 40 Years of Age, a well-set Fellow, of about 5 Feet 8 Inches high, yellowish Complexion, with a very full round Face, and full black Beard, his Speech is something slow and broken, but not in so great a Degree as to render him remarkable. He had on...
40From George Washington to Charles Green, 26–30 August 1761 (Washington Papers)
I shoud think myself very inexcusable were I to omit so good an oppertunity as Mr Douglass’s return from these Springs, of giving you some Account of the place, and of Our Approaches to it. To begin then—We arrivd here yesterday, and our Journey (as you may imagine) was not of the most agreable sort, through such Weather & such Roads as we had to encounter; these last for 20 or 25 Miles from...
41To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 16 September 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 16 Sept. 1761. On 28 May 1762 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co. : “Your unacknowledged favours of the . . . 16 & 19th Septr . . . now lye before [me].”
42To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 17 September 1761 (Washington Papers)
I arrived here last Saturday in Compy with Doctor Stuart who laid a State of your case before Doctor Macleane and now send you their opinions But as the changes to which your Disorder are Subject and the distance of Time and Place may probably in some measure destroy the efficacy of what they prescribe I would earnestly beg leave to recommend your coming here as soon as the circumstances of...
43To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 19 September 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 19 Sept. 1761. On 28 May 1762 GW wrote to Robert Cary & Co. : “Your unacknowledged favours of the . . . 16 & 19th Septr . . . now lye before [me].”
44From George Washington to John Moorey, 23 September 1761 (Washington Papers)
I don’t doubt but you have thought me very negligent in giving you no account of my Proceedings with Horner in regard to your order upon him. His living in another Provence and at a considerable distance from me, add to this an Indisposition which has prevented my travelling abroad and transacting business of almost any kind since I wrote you from Williamsburg in April last, has of course...
45From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 23 September 1761 (Washington Papers)
An Indisposition which I have been under 3 or 4 Months inducd me to take a trip Northward to try the effects of Exercise and our Mountain Air upon my disorder —I find some benefit from the Journey—but not returning till within these few days I came too late to make out and send my Invoices by the Fleet. however no disappointment of Goods will follow from thence I hope because there will be...
46To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 1 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Inclos’d we have sent thy Accot Current to 1st Augt last—please to Examine the same, and not to omit advising us if it proves right, if otherwise please to point out the Error and it shall be rectify’d. With concern we remark that it is sometime since we were favour’d with any Tobacco from Thee but we hope by Hylton or Esten for a renewal of thy Consignment and in the Sale thereof great Care...
47From George Washington to John Moorey, 1 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Since mine of the 23d Ulto the Inclosd Bill from my friend, who I instructed to negotiate the business with Horner, is come to hand and with this remark. “You have Inclosd, Bills of Exchange for £30.15 from Mr Horner in payment of that debt you were empowered to receive from him. you will please observe he has only sent two Setts, and says in his Letter to me that he keeps the other two for...
48From George Washington to John Didsbury, 12 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Inclosd you have my measure for Boots—please therefore to send me two pair of them; one of which made of stout strong Leather for Winters use, the other pair to be light and thin for Summer—both pair Shoe Boots—likewise send me two pair of neat turnd Pumps and four pair of neat, but at the sametime strong Shoes—Mr Cary will pay the amount and I am Sir Yr Very Hble Servt ALB , DLC:GW . These...
49From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 12 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Herewith you will receive sundry Invoices for Goods wanted, those for my own and the Childrens use please to send by Captn Johnston or the first Vessell bound for this River in the Spring—Mrs Dandridges must go in a Ship for York —I cannot make out an Account of the necessarys which may be wanting for my own and Master Custis’s Plantations on York River till I go down there which will happen...
50Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 12 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
Invoice of Sundry Goods to be sent by Robert Cary Esqr. and Co. for the use of George Washington—Virginia 800 Ells Oznabrigs 300 Yds best Cotton 4 pieces best Dutch Blanketting 2 pieces Fearnought 4 dozn pr very large Pld Hose 4 dozn pr of a Size Smaller 2 dozn pair for boys & Girls 2 pieces of Irish Linnen @3/6 1 piece ditto @2/ 2 pieces ditto @1/ 1 piece Irish Oznab: to be soft & white...