George Washington Papers

Memorandum, 10 October 1756

Memorandum

[10 October 1756]

N.B. This day Captain Mercer set out for Williamsburgh.1 Colonel Washington has now been on his journey to Augusta &c. since the 29th September.

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1. Mercer was going down to the general court to give evidence in the case against the counterfeiter James Knap and to testify in James Lemen’s trial. See GW to Dinwiddie, 4 Aug. 1756, n.23, and Orders, 22, 23 Aug. 1756.

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    “Memorandum, 10 October 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0368. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 3, 16 April 1756–9 November 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 430.]