Certificate of Proxy, 10 January 1798

Certificate of Proxy

[10 January 1798]

Know all men by these presents that I Eleanor Parke Custis of Fairfax County, State of Virginia, do hereby constitute and appoint George Washington of County and State aforesaid, to be my substitute & Proxy; for me, & in my name and behalf, to vote at the next annual Election for nine Directors of the Bank of Alexandria, as fully as I might, or could do, were I personally present.1 Given under my hand and Seal this 10th day of January 1798.

Sealed & delivered in presence of

D (photocopy), in GW’s hand, ViMtvL.

1. GW wrote in his diary for 15 Jan.: “I went to Alexandria to a meeting of the Stockholders of that Bank to an Election of Directors” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 6:277).

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Title: Certificate of Proxy, 10 January 1798
Author: Washington, George
Date: 10 January 1798

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Cite as: “Certificate of Proxy, 10 January 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0015. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 2 January 1798 – 15 September 1798, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 15–16.]