1From George Washington to William Rawle, 13 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Whereas it appears to me, from the representation of several respectable persons, and from sundry affidavits, that William Kerr and Alexander Beer, who were lately indicted in the circuit-court of the United States, holden in the town of York, in the state of Pennsylvania, for a riot, were innocent of the offence, with which they stand charged;...and Alexander Beer (Berr) during the U.S....
2From George Washington to Thomas Knox, 30 December 1757 (Washington Papers)
1 Cask bottled Beer.
3From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 1 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
. The grand jury of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Middle District, which met at York, Pa., on 11 Oct. 1792, indicted William Kerr and Alexander Beer (Berr), participants in the August 1792 attack on William Faulkner’s tavern, in which John Nevill, the inspector of the revenue, had established his office. On 13 Mar. 1793 GW wrote William Rawle, U.S....
4From George Washington to Daniel Parker, 12 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
If there are Wine & Beer Glasses (the latter of the same shape but larger) exactly like those which Mr Frauncis brought to Orange Town; of which he will have a perfect recollection, I should be glad, if an opportunity offers to Alexandria,...
5Orders to Brigadier General George Clinton, 30 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
. Lt. Col. John Hulbert’s expense account for 1–6 Oct. shows that he, Clinton, Lincoln, and John Sloss Hobart met at Isaac Beers’s Tavern in New Haven from 2 to 5 Oct. to make preparations for the expedition, which was canceled just before it began (see Hastings,
6From George Washington to Richard Peters, 5 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
It does not appear that any person has yet undertaken the Business of supplying the Army with Beer or Cyder, Vinegar and Vegetables; but as those things would exceedingly refresh the Troops that now lay at Germantown, I beg to know whether they could not be procured for them immediately by some person appointed by the... ...at present. If only Beer or Cyder and Vinegar were procured, it would...
7From George Washington to William Pearce, 23 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
...without waste, or misapplication—I am very willing to allow them enough, and
of such provisions, day by day, as is wholesome & good, but no more—they have, each
of them been allowed a bottle of Beer a day—and this must be continued to them—that is a
quart each, for when I am from home the Beer will not be bottled though it may be brewed as the occasio...
8From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee to Inquire into the State of the Army, 19 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
...kind of Vegetables—had but little Salt and Vinegar, which would have been a tolerable substitute for Vegetables, have been in a great measure strangers to—neither have they been provided with proper drink—Beer or Cyder seldom comes within the verge of the Camp, and Rum in much too small quantities. Thus, to devouring large quantities of animal-food, untemper’d by vegetables, or vinegar,...
9From George Washington to Abraham Skinner, 17 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
Francis Suzor Debevere (De Beer; De Bur), of Paris, became surgeon’s mate in the 7th Massachusetts Regiment in August 1778. Captured at Cherry Valley, Debevere remained a prisoner for the rest of the war and then returned to France.
10From George Washington to William Strickland, 15 July 1797 (Washington Papers)
You make a distinction and no doubt a just one between what in England is call’d Barley, and Big or Beer, if there be none of the true Barley in this Country—it is not for us without Experience