Col. John Aug't Washington

Letter directed to Col. John Aug't Washington,  Bushfield. 

 Letter in full:

Dear Col'o I will pay you for Mr. John Carrol on Demand four Pounds Ten Shill. I hope you will Pardon my Keeping your Man Jerry Longer Than I Told you I Should want him, as the Shortnefs of the Day Prevented his Geting his work in the Time I mentioned. I hope Mrs. Washington & Family is well and I am Sir Y’r hble Serv Wm. Ri___ 16th Decemb'r 1784 John Augustine Washington (1736-1787) was the younger brother of George Washington and the father of Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington. As a young man, John Washington managed Mount Vernon for his brother George. In February, 1766, at Leedstown in Westmoreland County, John Washington (and his brothers Samuel and Charles) joined over 110 other men in signing the "Westmoreland Resolves", which created an association to oppose the Stamp Act passed by Parliament the previous year. When the port of Boston was closed because of protests in the Massachusetts colony, John Washington became chairman of the relief committee in Westmoreland County and forwarded 1092 bushels of grain. He was listed as a Virinia militia colonel in 1775. John Augustine Washington died unexpectedly at Bushfield on the 8th or 9 of January 1787. Very legible and in vg condition.

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