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To George Washington from Robert Townsend Hooe, 6 April 1785

From Robert Townsend Hooe

Alexandria [Va.] April 6th 1785.

sir,

I am extremely sorry it was not my power to wait on Your Excellency the other day, and Yesterday I found my self so very unwell all day as to be unable to do any thing or would have sent down the Bill. I now enclose one for 2500 Dollars on Mr Sylvanus Dickenson of New York. The Ballance of Major Jenifers draft I will be Collecting together as fast as in my power.1 I am, sir, Yr Excellencys Most Obt Serv’t

R. Td Hooe

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. For GW’s negotiations with Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer and Hooe to obtain the New York bill of exchange, see the references in note 1 in Hooe to GW, 3 April. GW sent Hooe & Harrison’s second bill on Sylvanus Dickinson (Dickenson) to George Clinton on 20 April.

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    To George Washington from Robert Townsend Hooe, 6 April 1785
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    “To George Washington from Robert Townsend Hooe, 6 April 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-02-02-0342. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 2, 18 July 1784 – 18 May 1785, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 483.]

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