Enclosure IV: Account with Alexander Wodrow, 24 July 1758
Enclosure IV
Account with Alexander Wodrow
Winchester 1758 July 24
Dr Colo. George Washington By order of Lieut. Chas Smith To Alexr Wodrow
For 1 hhd & 1 Barrell of Punch consisting of 26 Gals. best | |
Barbadoes Rum 5/, | 6.10.0 |
& 12½ Pds S. Refd Sugar 1/6 | 0.18.9 |
To 6 Gallons best Madiera Wine of Mr | |
Thos Lemen1 10/ | 3. 0.0 |
£10. 8.9 |
Alexr Wodrow
Test
Joseph Carroll
DS, DLC:GW. The document seems to be in the hand of Charles Smith.
Alexander Wodrow was a merchant in Falmouth who had been acting as a sutler to the Virginia troops on the frontier since 1756.
1. Thomas Lemen (Lemon), a lieutenant in Capt. William Cocks’s company of rangers in 1755 and 1756, was the son of the successful tavernkeeper James Lemen of Winchester who died in 1757.