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[Diary entry: 8 March 1760]

Saturday Mar. 8. No. Et. Wind & Rain—Plows stopd.

Gave Captn. Cawseys Skipper namely William Vicars—1 Tobo. Note and an Order on Hunting Creek Warehouses for 7 Hhds. of my Mountain Tobo.

John Cawsey was captain of the Tyger, a 120–ton British-built ship which took a crew of nine and sailed in the Virginia tobacco trade for John Farrel & Co. of Bristol, Eng. William Vicars was probably Cawsey’s first mate. hunting creek warehouses: These tobacco warehouses at Alexandria had been established by the inspection acts of 1730 and 1732 (see entry for 25 Jan. 1760).

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    “[Diary entry: 8 March 1760],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-01-02-0005-0003-0008. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 1, 11 March 1748 – 13 November 1765, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 251.]