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Binding the Nation : Starting the System : Washington's Postage Bill

Washington's Postage Bill

Well weathered paper showing list of costs, totaling 32.16 under the notation "Col. Washington to postage for Col. Fairfax."
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Through the 19th century, those who received letters could be charged the cost of postage. This 1773 record shows that George Washington, then a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, owed 32 pennyweights and 16 grains of silver for letters sent him by a friend and neighbor, Colonel Fairfax.













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