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Memd
Your mother is so much pleasd with the guallity and price of the tea and Sugar you sent by Phill: that she desires you will purchase three pounds of the tea and Six loaves of the Sugar least they should grow dearer— this you will Judge of being on the spot— as also of the practicability of getting it forwarded by water to Elk or safe storage for if their till it can be brought from thence to you comies or Nomony by some trusty hand, safe from the enemy &c. &c.
AL, ViMtvL: Bushrod Washington Family Papers. John Augustine Washington addressed the letter to "Bushrod Washington Esqr at Mrs Farmers in Spruce Street between Front and Second[.] Philadelphia" with the note "Favoured by Philip Key Esqr." The letter carries the endorsement "Letter from J.A. & H. Washington."