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Line 2 - In 1785, GW had sent Clement Biddle public certificates issued in payment for cornmeal and flour that Gilbert Simpson, the manager from 1773 to 1784 of GW's property on the Youghiogheny River, had supplied the public and the army, from GW's mill .  GW later sent Biddle a United States certificate given to Simpson in payment for flour and meal from GW's mill at Washington Bottom. When GW let Biddle decide whether or not to sell the certificate, the latter collected the interest due and lent the certificate to the state of Pennsylvania in return for a state certificate, which would pay interest "every Six Months."  Biddle sent that state certificate to GW, and subsequently informed him, in a letter of 15 Oct. 1786, that he (Biddle) had "funded" the certificate "amount £127.6.11 Pennsylvania Currency," and that he was enclosing "84 50/90 Dollars in Indents" which he had received. In that letter, Biddle also noted that he received one year's interest. See GW to Clement Biddle, 1 Feb. 1785, and n.8 [Rotunda | Founders Online | Print (Confederation Series, Volume 2, pages 306-9)]; Biddle to GW, 13 Aug. 1786 [Rotunda | Founders Online | Print (Confederation Series, Volume 4, pages 208-9)]; and Biddle to GW, 15 Oct. 1786 [Rotunda | Founders Online | Print (Confederation Series, Volume 4, pages 294-95)]