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Worthy Partner: The Papers of Martha Washington

By: Joseph E. Fields; Martha Washington | Book details

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To Ditto yr Man's Brecheys Coat 0.. 10.. 0
Feb 3rd To (illegible) 0.. 6.. 8
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Errors Excepted By Me Geo Heath 17.. 8.. 2
(illegible) 12.. 1.. 9
(illegible) 5.. 6.. 5
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17.. 8.. 2

Rec d the above account in full of all demands against the Estate of Colo. Danl Parke Cutis (sic) his George G X Heath1 39 marke

DS, Custis Papers, ViHi.

1.
George Heath was a tailor who was often employed by MW to make clothes for her son and the male servants. He may be the George Heath who, as a fourteen year old orphan, was bound to Thomas Bearcroft on July 13, 1748. PGWC 6:263, 267, 328-29.

To Bartholomew Dandridge
1757 Mrs Custis Dr. To B Dandridge1
To Cash £ 21. __ .__
Col Macon's 2 Order Ster £ 40 58.__.__
45 PCt Excha 18 ---------------
79 . __ . __
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1757 By Cash £ 5. 7. 6
By pd Doctor Carter3 44. 14. 9
By Mr Dandridge's Order 10 . __ . __
By 1 pc Lutestring 4 sterl
75 p ct, advance --------------

AD, Custis Papers, ViHi.

1.
See Robert Carter Nicholas to MW, August 7, 1757, n. 2.
2.
See William Macon to MW, December 21, 1757, n. 1.
3.
See Dr. James Carter to MW, November 28, 1757, n. 1.
4.
Lutestring or lustring was "a type of glossy silk fabric - a dress or ribbon of this fabric." ( Oxford English Dictionary)

To Robert Cary and Company

1758

An invoice to Mr Cary & Company for the year 1758 on a suite of cloths for myself.

One Genteel suite of cloths for my self to be grave but not Extravagent nor to be mourning. I have sent a night gown to be dide of

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