1. As GW had instructed on 21 June, Hanbury drew on John Parke Custis’s account, not on that of his father’s estate as this would indicate.

2. The text of the Hanbury letter of this date to John Parke Custis is: “Our last to Thee was ⅌ the Lunn & Lloyd Capn Necks, dated 20th May 1770, to which We beg leave to refer, since which, We have received George Washington Esqr.’s favor of the 21st June last, advising of his bill on us in favor of Peyton Randolph for £250, on Thy Account, which has not yet appear’d, when it does shall meet due honor—We have the pleasure to advise Thee of the safe arrival of the Hanbury Capn Esten, after a good passage by whom we find ourselves favor’d with 10 hhds of Thy Tobacco, for which we shall do our utmost in procuring the best prices the Market will afford, at present We have not landed any part of her Cargo, as She is a full ship, the Tobo must consequently be very warm, & were we to land it immediately, would loose considerably in weight. Since the arrival of the last Ships, the prices of Tobo have been rather upon the decline owing in a great measure to an opinion, the Buyers entertain, of the prospect of large crops in Virginia, & Maryland; how far this may be the case, time only can determine, the demand at present is not very brisk, the prices are from 10d. to 11d. ⅌ lb. home consumption, & from 3d. to 3¾d. ⅌ lb. for exportation, very fine will produce something more; We shall do our endeavors in keeping them up—We intend sending Capn Esten so as to be in Virginia at the usual time, for the accomodation of our friends, & we hope for the continuance of Thy friendship, and assistance in promoting his dispatch—When We wrote to Thee last it was our full Intention, to have clos’d all our Accots to the 1st Inst., & of rendering our friends Accots Currt up to that time, but as We have not yet dispos’d of all the Tobo consign’d us, We are under a necessity of defering it a few months longer—It will give us pleasure at all times to hear of Thy Welfare” (ViHi: Custis Papers).