THOMAS WALPOLE
S. POWNALL
B. FRANKLIN
SAMUEL WHARTON
See American Historical Review, vol. iii, p. 205.
This action, however, was not approved by the American members of
the company, and the final collapse of the whole enterprise was one
of the results of the Revolution.]
[Footnote A: The whole being divided into seventy-two equal Shares
by the words "two shares" above is understood two Seventy-second
parts of the Tract so as above Purchased.
THOMAS WALPOLE
S. POWNALL
B. FRANKLIN
SAMUEL WHARTON]
I heartily congratulate you[59] on the happy News of my Brothers
safe arrival _in health_ in England and am joy'd to hear that
his stay is likely to be so short I hope you'll make Use of your
Natural Resolution and contendness as they are the only Remedys to
spend the time with ease & pleasure to yourself I am deprived of
the pleasure of waiting on you (as I expected) by Ague and Feaver
which I have had to Extremety since I left which has occasioned my
Return D
[Footnote 59: Memorandum or draft of a letter to his sister-in-law
Anne, wife of Lawrence Washington, of Mount Vernon, made, very
possibly, while in the field surveying in the fall of 1748 or
spring of 1749. This visit to Europe, of Lawrence Washington, was
partly in the interest of the Ohio Company and partly on account of
his failing health which, unfortunately, was not benefited by the
voyage as had been hoped.]
Memorandom to charge M^{rs} Aus. Washington[60] with 4 /9 and 18^d
the 30 of July to a Maryland Hen-wife as also Major Law: Washington
with 1 /3 lent the 15 of August 5 /9 the 17 D^o 2 /6 D^o: I read to
the Reign of K: John
[Footnote 60: Mrs. Aus. Washington evidently refers to Mrs.
Augustine Washington, of Westmoreland, the wife of George's
half-brother, Augustine, with whom he had made his home while
attending Mr. William's Academy. Austin is, or has been, in
Virginia a contraction for Augustine. Augustine Moore, a notable
character, is recorded interchangeably, in land and other records,
as Augustine and as Austin Moore. It is presumed that "The Maryland
Housewife" was intended to have been written, that being the name
of a popular book on cookery and the art of housekeeping at that
period. The date of this memorandum is presumed to be 1748. A
charge in his book of accounts kept at this time, and which was
among the relics of Lawrence Washington sold in Philadelphia in the
spring of 1891, would fix the date as July 28th, 1748. It was not
an unusual thing for Washington in his youth to use contractions
in writing the first names of his brothers, the following are
examples: Aus., Austin for Augustine; Sam for Samuel; Jack and
John, simply for John Augustine.]