WASHINGTON, George. Document signed, ("G: o Washington"), a promissory note to the Church Wardens of Truro Parish, 24 February 1774, DOCKETED BY THE HAND OF GEORGE MASON (1725-1792) (unsigned) on verso. 1 page, 4to, signed by Washington in lower right (signature pale), text accomplished in another hand. Seal remnant alongside Washington's signature . Witnessed and counter-signed by William B. Sears and Francis Coffer. Also endorsed on verso by Peter Wagener. Matted and framed.
WASHINGTON, George. Document signed, ("G: o Washington"), a promissory note to the Church Wardens of Truro Parish, 24 February 1774, DOCKETED BY THE HAND OF GEORGE MASON (1725-1792) (unsigned) on verso. 1 page, 4to, signed by Washington in lower right (signature pale), text accomplished in another hand. Seal remnant alongside Washington's signature . Witnessed and counter-signed by William B. Sears and Francis Coffer. Also endorsed on verso by Peter Wagener. Matted and framed. "I, GEORGE WASHINGTON OF THE PARISH OF TRURO COUNTY..." WASHINGTON PURCHASES A PEW ON BEHALF OF GEORGE FAIRFAX in this rare combination of two founding fathers. Washington was a communicant and George Mason one of the church wardens to whom Washington addresses this promissory note: "I, George Washington of the Parish of Truro & County of Fairfax, Attorney in Fact for the Hon. b l e George William Fairfax Esq., do Promise to pay or cause to be paid unto George Mason & Edward Payne, Church Wardens of the said Parish of Truro, or to their Successors...the sum of Sixteen pounds current money on the twenty-fourth day of August next for Value received in a pew purchased by the said George William Fairfax in the new Church near Pohick of the vestry of the said parish. To which payment well & truly to be made & binding myself, my Heirs Executors & Administrators in the penal Sum of Thirty two pounds of like money firmly by these Presents..." Mason's docket on the verso reads: "Colo. Geo. Washinton [ sic ] upon account of George Fairfax Esq., to the Church wardens of Truro Parish, penal note for 16.00.00 li." Church Warden Peter Wagener has also docketed the note: "Received of Mr. Lund Washington for the principal & interest of the within Bond amounting to seventeen pounds, eighteen shillings & eight pence, this 24th day of Jan. 1777." Though unsigned by Mason, his docket is authenticated by the Church records that report "vestry met again on February 25th Bonds being taken yesterday from Col. Washington for himself, and also as Attorney in fact for Colo. George William Fairfax, now in Britain...the same Bonds were delivered to Colo. George Mason Church Warden, to be by him collected and accounted for at the next laying the levy..." Work on this church had been underway since 1769, and Washington contributed the gold leaf used in the interior. The date of this bond coincides with the intensifying revolutionary crisis--the Boston Tea Party of December was soon to be followed by the Boston Port Act and other Intolerable Acts. George Mason would draft the Fairfax Resolutions condemning those Acts. He later drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776 and served as a disgruntled delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, opposing the centralized government that emerged in the new charter. A fascinating association of Washington and religion, and a rare combination of two of the most important Virginia names in the founding era.
WASHINGTON, George. Document signed, ("G: o Washington"), a promissory note to the Church Wardens of Truro Parish, 24 February 1774, DOCKETED BY THE HAND OF GEORGE MASON (1725-1792) (unsigned) on verso. 1 page, 4to, signed by Washington in lower right (signature pale), text accomplished in another hand. Seal remnant alongside Washington's signature . Witnessed and counter-signed by William B. Sears and Francis Coffer. Also endorsed on verso by Peter Wagener. Matted and framed.
WASHINGTON, George. Document signed, ("G: o Washington"), a promissory note to the Church Wardens of Truro Parish, 24 February 1774, DOCKETED BY THE HAND OF GEORGE MASON (1725-1792) (unsigned) on verso. 1 page, 4to, signed by Washington in lower right (signature pale), text accomplished in another hand. Seal remnant alongside Washington's signature . Witnessed and counter-signed by William B. Sears and Francis Coffer. Also endorsed on verso by Peter Wagener. Matted and framed. "I, GEORGE WASHINGTON OF THE PARISH OF TRURO COUNTY..." WASHINGTON PURCHASES A PEW ON BEHALF OF GEORGE FAIRFAX in this rare combination of two founding fathers. Washington was a communicant and George Mason one of the church wardens to whom Washington addresses this promissory note: "I, George Washington of the Parish of Truro & County of Fairfax, Attorney in Fact for the Hon. b l e George William Fairfax Esq., do Promise to pay or cause to be paid unto George Mason & Edward Payne, Church Wardens of the said Parish of Truro, or to their Successors...the sum of Sixteen pounds current money on the twenty-fourth day of August next for Value received in a pew purchased by the said George William Fairfax in the new Church near Pohick of the vestry of the said parish. To which payment well & truly to be made & binding myself, my Heirs Executors & Administrators in the penal Sum of Thirty two pounds of like money firmly by these Presents..." Mason's docket on the verso reads: "Colo. Geo. Washinton [ sic ] upon account of George Fairfax Esq., to the Church wardens of Truro Parish, penal note for 16.00.00 li." Church Warden Peter Wagener has also docketed the note: "Received of Mr. Lund Washington for the principal & interest of the within Bond amounting to seventeen pounds, eighteen shillings & eight pence, this 24th day of Jan. 1777." Though unsigned by Mason, his docket is authenticated by the Church records that report "vestry met again on February 25th Bonds being taken yesterday from Col. Washington for himself, and also as Attorney in fact for Colo. George William Fairfax, now in Britain...the same Bonds were delivered to Colo. George Mason Church Warden, to be by him collected and accounted for at the next laying the levy..." Work on this church had been underway since 1769, and Washington contributed the gold leaf used in the interior. The date of this bond coincides with the intensifying revolutionary crisis--the Boston Tea Party of December was soon to be followed by the Boston Port Act and other Intolerable Acts. George Mason would draft the Fairfax Resolutions condemning those Acts. He later drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776 and served as a disgruntled delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, opposing the centralized government that emerged in the new charter. A fascinating association of Washington and religion, and a rare combination of two of the most important Virginia names in the founding era.
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