George Washington Papers

To George Washington from John Mercer, 3 May 1765 [letter not found]

Letter not found: from John Mercer, 3 May 1765.

The catalog entry states that Mercer is “explaining his reason for not being prompt in the payment of interest due”1 (Thomas Birch’s Sons, catalog no. 683, item 736, 5–6 April 1892).

1. For John Mercer’s indebtedness to the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, see doc. III-B, n.29, in Settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, 20 April 1759–5 Nov. 1761.

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    To George Washington from John Mercer, 3 May 1765 [letter not found]
    Author
    Mercer, John
    Recipient
    Washington, George
    Date
    3 May 1765

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    “To George Washington from John Mercer, 3 May 1765 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-07-02-0230. [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. 368.]

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