Mount Vernon Ladies Association, W-1523

Fields, Joseph E. 'Worthy Partner': The Papers of Martha Washington. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association

Invoice of Sundry Goods to be Shipped by Robert Cary Esqr. & Company
for the Use of George Washington

A Light Summer suit made of Duroy or by the inclosed measure
4 peices best India Nankeen
2 best beaver Hats plain each to cost a Guinea
1 ps of Irish Linnen @ 4/
1 ps of black E Sattin Ribbon
1 Sword-belt of Red morocco leather or buff. N.B.. no buckles or rings.
4 lb. Ivory blacking
2 best [?] bladed knives
1 pair good horse Scissars
A Sammon coloured Tabby of the inclosed pattern with Sattan flowers to be made in a
Sack or Coat.
1 Cap handkerchief, Tucker and Ruffles to be made of Brussels Lace or point proper to
wear wt ye above Negligie to cost £10.
1 ps bag holland to cost 6s
2 flowered Lawn Aprons.
2 stole handkerchiefs
2 pr Womans white silk hose
6 pr. ditto fine Cotton Do
4 pr B thread Do
1 pr. black & 1 pr. White Sattan Shoes of the Smallest Sizes.
4 pr. Callamanca Do
6 pr Woman's best kid gloves
6 pr. Do. Mitts
1 fashionable hat or Bonnet
1/2 dozn.knots & breast knots.
1 dozn Silk Laces
1 black Mask
1 dozn. most fashionable Cambrick pocket handkerchiefs
2 pr. neat small scissars
1 lb sewing Silk Shaded.
114 lb Do cloth - coloured Do
4 ps.binding Tape
6 M Miniken pins
6 M short Whites
6 M Corking pins
1 M hair pins
6 lb perfumed powder
3 lb best scotchsnuff
3 lb best violet Strasburg
2 lb powdered blew
2 oz. Coventry thread 1 of wh. to be very fine
1 ps White Sattin ribbon pearl edge.
1 Case of pickles to consist of Anchovies Capers Olives Salid Oil & 1 bottle India
Mangoes.
1 large Cheshire Cheese
4 lb green tea
10 Groce best Corks
25 lb best Jar Raisins
25 lb Almonds in the Shell
1 hogshead best Porter
10 Loaves of dble & 10 of Single refined Sugar
6 strong halters hempen reins
3 best Snaffle bridles
9 best Girths
25 lb brown soap
12 lb best Mustard
2 dozn packs playing Cards
2 Sacks best English Oats
1 dozn painters brushes
11 bushl tares
12 best hand padlocks
18 bell Glasses for Garden
2 more chair bottoms such as were wrote for in a former invoice
1 more Window Curtain & Cornish
8 Busts &ca according to the following directions & measures of Copper Enamel or
Glazed. viz.
1 of Alexander the Great - 1 of Julius Caesar 1 of Charles ye 12 of Sweden & another of
the King of Prussia these all to be of the same size in order to fill up broken
pediments over doors, & not to exceed 15 inches in height nor 10 inches in width.
2 Furious Wild Beasts of any kind, not to exceed 18 inches in length & 12 in higth but
as near that size as may be drawn as if approaching each other & eager to engage at the distance of about 4 feet. to be the same Colour as those above.
Prince Eugene & the Duke of Marlborough of somewhat smaller size than the above to
stand on each end of a pediment wch is carved in this manner
Sundry Small ornaments for a Chimney piece that is 6 feet long and 8 inches wide
100 lb White Bisquet
2 Lanthorns
3 Gallns Rhenish in pint bottles.
25 Yds broad cloth of the inclose Colour to cost about 7/6
15 Yds Course thick Duffle of ye same Colour
6 Yds Do. to cost 8/6
30 Yds red Shaloon
20 dozn white washed Coat buttons
12 dozen waist coat do.
Twist, thread, Silk &c sufficient to make up the above cloth.
40 Yds Course Jeans or fustians for Summer frocks for Negro Servants.
1 pc Irish Linnen 2 1/3
1 pc Dowlas a l0d
1/2 dozen pr course strong thread hose fit for Negro Servants.
6 Caster hats a about 5/
1 dozn pr Course Shoe & knee buckles fit for Do.
2 Postillion Caps
450 Ells Oznaburgs
4 ps brown Rolls
350 Yds Kendal Cottoni
100 Yds Dutch Blankets
2 ps fearnought
8 dozn pr plaid hose Sorted
4 dozn Monmouth Caps
20 lb bro thread
15 Ib best Shoe Makers do
20 Sacks Salt
2 Casks 3d Nails
2 Do 10d Do
10 M 20d Do
20 M 4d Nails
20 M 6d Do
6 Spades
200 lb German Steel
2 dozn best Staples
6 best Whites handsaws
6 best broad axes
6 House Adzes
2 dozn box Gimblets
6 pr Steel Compasses
1 dozn Augers sorted from 2 inches to 112 Do
1 Cowper's Taper bitt
1 Do Croe
1 Do Dowling bitt
1 Do Vice
1 Do pr large Compasses
1 Do Adze
1 do Round Shave
1 Do Howell
1 Wheel Wright's Buz
1 Do large Gouge
1 Do Anter Bitt
2 Dozn pair H's hinges
Joiner's Tools
1 jointer
2 long plains
2 Jack Do
4 Smoothing Do
10 pr hollows & rounds
6 ogees
4 two Square Astricles
3 pr Grooving plains
1 Snipes bill
4 quarter rounds
4 Sash plains
3 beed plains
6 ovalos
1 plow & irons
1 Moving philister
1 Screw Rabbit plain
1 Square Do
3 raising Do
1 Spring Brace & bit compleat
1 Turkey oil-stone
1 handsaw
1 pannel Do
1 tenant Do
1 Compass Do
1 Sash Do
1 dozn firmers
1 Do Gouges
1 rnorticing Chizzels
1 Adze
1 drawing knife
2 pr Compasses
2 Rules
2 Chalk lines
1 small hatchet
2 punches
2 Saw Setts
2 dozn Gimblets
2 dozn plain Irons
6 Rasps 2 of a Sort
2 dozn handsaw fills
2 of Tennant Do
25 lb Clew
2 vent saws
12 inch Chizzles
6 Bottles Turlington Balsarn
8 Oz Spirit of Lavender
1/2 Ib. Ipca: powdered
1/2 Ib. Jalap powdered
12 Oz Venus Treacle
4 Oz best Rhubarb
12 Oz Diascordium
4 Oz pearl barley
4 Ib Sago
4 Oz balsam Capivil
5 Oz liquid Laudanum
5 Oz Spirits Sal Ammoniac
5 Oz Spirits Hartshorn
4 Oz Spanish flies
3 lb Bird lyme
6 lb Oil of Turpentine
2 lb Spirits Do
5 lb White Sugar Candy
10 Ib. Bo Do.
1 lb barley Sugar
2 Ib. linseed Oil Cold drawn
4 Ib. Allum
1 lb Spirma Citi [spermaceti]
4 Oz tincture of Myrrh
4 Oz balsam Sulphur
4 Oz pulvus Basilii
2 Oz. Mer Dulcis
4 Oz. Sal Volatile
10 Ib. hartshorn Shavings
2 Quarts strong Cinnamon Water
2 Quarts Weak Do.
N.B. all liquids to come in double flint bottles.
40 S. worth of Medicines proper for Horses - Among wh let there be
4 Ib. flower of brimstone
4 Ib. Annis seeds
4 Ib. Carthamums
5 Ib. Syrup of Coltsfoot
5 Ib. black Soap
4 Ib. Cummin seeds
4 lb. Fenngreek
2 Ib. juice of Liquorice
3 Ib. long pepper
2 Ib. Diapente
& such other as are most proper

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20th Sepr 1759

Copy in an unknown hand

painting

56 inches high x 69 inches wide

silver teaware

portrait, oil on canvas

Cadou, Carol Borchert. The George Washington Collection: Fine and Decorative Arts at Mount Vernon. Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, 2006.

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Smith, Eliza B. • The Compleat housewife; or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion, being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry ... with copper plates curiously engraven ... and also bills of fare for every month of the year, to which is added, a collection of above three hundred family receipts of medicines. TX705 .S53 1742b, rare books and special collections, Rockefeller Library.

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