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Memorandum, 6 January 1756

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[Winchester, 6 January 1756]

Wrote to Ensign Buckner at Alexandria, to take John Berry, a Servant of Mr William West, who is willing to enlist; and to give up Jacob Funkhouser in his place.1

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1. William West operated an ordinary in Fairfax County (now Loudoun County), and Mordecai Buckner was the quartermaster for the Virginia Regiment. GW noted in a Memorandum of 11–14 Jan. that the exchange of Funkhouser for Berry took place on 11 Jan. 1756.

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    “Memorandum, 6 January 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-02-02-0265. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 2, 14 August 1755 – 15 April 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983, p. 253.]