George Washington Papers

From George Washington to John Searle, 30 January 1764

To John Searle

[30 January 1764]

Sir,

Your favour of the 22d of August last I have had the pleasure to receive,1 as also the Wine accompanying of it which lyes yet untasted, but from your recommendation of it I shall suppose it good and therefore desire you will send me such another Pipe and draw as before upon Robert Cary Esqr. & Co. who are advised thereof and will pay accordingly.2

If no oppertunity shoud offer soon to Potomack River you will please to send the Wine to Norfolk recommended to the care of Collo. Tucker as the last was. I am Sir Yr Most Hble Servt

Go: Washington

ALB, DLC:GW. GW wrote on his letter-book copy, “Sent by Collo. Lewis’s Vessell—to Madeira.” Fielding Lewis owned a ship Betty, the name by which his wife and GW’s sister was called. The Betty sailed to the West Indies in the summer of 1764.

1. Letter not found.

2. See GW to Mayne, Burn, & Mayne, 6 Aug. 1762 and 30 April 1763, and GW to John and James Searle, 30 April 1763.

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    From George Washington to John Searle, 30 January 1764
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    Washington, George
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    Searle, John
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    30 January 1764

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    “From George Washington to John Searle, 30 January 1764,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-07-02-0171. [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. 285.]

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