Fine Books and Manuscripts including Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection
Fine Books and Manuscripts including Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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July 21, 06:40 PM GMT
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WASHINGTON, GEORGE
Autograph document signed ("Go: Washington"), to the Paymaster of the Virginia Forces
One page on a slip of paper (4 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.; 116 x 190 mm), [Williamsburg?], 10 November 1754; soiled, laid down closing some fold separations, a few words faded from dampstaining.
Washington authorizes payment of sixty-nine pounds to Major Carlyle. This payment was probably for room and board or some expenses related to the same. The document is dated just a few days following his resignation, and Washington orders that Carlyle be paid out of back pay due to him.