Mathew Carey (1760–1839)
Bushrod Washington was a customer of Carey/Carey and Lea.
Mathew Carey was born on 28 January 1760 in Dublin, Ireland. A writer and publisher who ran afoul of British authorities, he disguised himself as a woman and fled his homeland. In 1784 the impoverished Carey settled in Philadelphia, where a loan from the Marquis de Lafayette helped him set up business as a printer and bookseller. Within a decade his firm of Carey and Lea was one of America’s premier publishing houses.
"Mathew Carey." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310016458/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=1019b24d. Accessed 30 Aug. 2023.
"To George Washington from Lafayette, 21 December 1784," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-02-02-0167. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 2, 18 July 1784 – 18 May 1785, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, pp. 226–228.]
"To James Madison from Lafayette, 15–17 December 1784," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0100. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 8, 10 March 1784 – 28 March 1786, ed. Robert A. Rutland and William M. E. Rachal. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973, pp. 185–187.]
Mathew Carey Papers, 1785–1859, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Mathew Carey diaries, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Mathew Carey at Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Mathew Carey at Find a Grave.
Mathew Carey at FamilySearch.