GW at Mount Vernon. He reported in his diary tobacco planting and horse breeding. GW wrote Robert Cary & Co. on business matters, but primarily related to disappointing tobacco sales. Robert Cary & Co. had been the main consignment merchant for the Custis family, and GW began using the firm to handle his Potomac tobacco after wedding Martha, whose first marriage connected her to the Custises.
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28 May 1762
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