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George Mercer to John Jones, 9 November 1755

George Mercer to John Jones

[Williamsburg, 9 November 1755]

To Mr Commissary Jones, at Winchester.

It is Colonel Washingtons Orders that you, until a Commissary arrives at Winchester,1 purchase all the Pork you can at the lowest rates, at the market price. If any news should come to Town concerning the Indians and French, or any Expresses from Pennsylvania; you are to hire an Express immediately, and send him down to Alexandria, with orders, that if he does not meet with Colonel Washington there, to proceed to Fredericksburgh, and there wait his arrival.

G:M. aid de camp.

Williamsburg: November 9th 1755

LB, DLC:GW.

1. On 11 Nov. GW ordered Dr. Thomas Walker to go immediately to Winchester to assume the duties of commissary for the expedition in the place of Charles Dick.

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    9 November 1755

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    “George Mercer to John Jones, 9 November 1755,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-02-02-0167. [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, pp. 164–165.]