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From George Washington to Mayne, Burn, & Mayne, 30 April 1763

To Mayne, Burn, & Mayne

Mount Vernon 30th of April 1763.

Gentn

The other side is Copy of my last (of the 6th Augt) if it shoud have miscaried please still to forward the Wine and draw as there directed but instead of Messrs Ringold and Gallaways Vessels if you are furnished with no oppertunity directly to Potomack River please to send the wine to Norfolk in Virginia to the care of Collo. Tucker1 who can readily forward it to Gentn Yr Most Obedt Servt

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ALB, DLC:GW. GW wrote at the bottom of his copy, “Sent By the Betcy—Captn Carr—via London.” He was in Williamsburg on 30 April, not at Mount Vernon as the dateline indicates. See Cash Accounts, April 1763.

1. This was probably Robert Tucker of Norfolk.

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    From George Washington to Mayne, Burn, & Mayne, 30 April 1763
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    Mayne, Burn, & Mayne
    Date
    30 April 1763

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    “From George Washington to Mayne, Burn, & Mayne, 30 April 1763,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-07-02-0128. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 7, 1 January 1761 – 15 June 1767, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990, p. 208.]

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