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From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 20 November 1772

To Robert Cary & Company

Williamsburg Novr 20th 1772

Gentn

By some kind of mismanagement Seven Hogsheads of Mr Custis’s Tobacco (from the Plantation on the Eastern Shore) missed a Passage in Captain Peterson; and Insurance made for that many more than the Ship carried of his, which you will please to have rectified, as I knew nothing of the disappointment till I came to this place a few days ago1—I have drawn two Bills upon you of this date in favour of [ ] for One hundred and fifty and Two hundred and fifty pounds Sterling which please to pay and place to Mr Custis’s2 and you will thereby oblige Gentn Yr Most Hble Servt

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ALB, DLC:GW. The ALS was listed for sale in the Anderson Galleries catalog, 31 Oct. 1918.

1. See James Hill to GW, 30 Aug. 1772, and GW to Cary, 15 October.

2. In the Guardian Accounts, 3 Nov. 1773, GW recorded £250 on 18 Nov. 1772 “By my Draft on Robt Cary Esqr. & Co.”

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    From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 20 November 1772
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    20 November 1772

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    “From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 20 November 1772,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-09-02-0090. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 9, 8 January 1772 – 18 March 1774, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 127–128.]

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