George Washington Papers

Cash Paid for Supplying George Washington’s Tea Table, 30 March 1783

No. 14

March 1783

Accot Cash Expended in furnishing the Commander in Chief’s Table &ca the month of March 1783

1783. March To Cash paid for £. S. D.
1st 1 Pint Milk 1/ 77 lb. Butter £8.6.10d.
1 Firkin 3/ 44 lb. Rock Fish £1.17.4d. 10. 8. 2
4 12 Fowls 24/ 16 lb. Veal 8/ 1 Turkey 10/ 2 2.
5 13 Rockfish £3.4/ Mending two Shirts 3/
23 lb. Veal 11/6 3. 18. 6
6 4 Quarts milk 2/8 10 Bushels Apples £4.
6 Bbls Cyder £8.8/ 12. 10. 8
7 4 Turkeys £1.12/. 5 1/2 lb. Butter 11/ 2. 3.
8 40 lb. Veal 20/ 1/2 Barrel Cyder 12/
2 Quarts milk 1/4 1. 13. 4
11 2 Pigs 14/ 32 lb. Veal 16/ 4 Fowls 8/ 1. 18.
17 1 1/2 Yard Linnen 8/ 48 lb. Mutton 24/
4 Fowls 7/ 42 lb. Butter £4.4 6. 3.
19 8 Dozen Eggs 9/4d. 1 1/2 Bushel Corn 9/
2 Quarts Milk 1/ 14 lb. Veal 7/ 1. 6. 4
22 34 lb. Butter £3.8/ 8 Fowls 16/
Keeping horse 1 Night 2/ 4. 6.
23 5 lb. Rockfish £2.16/ Keeping horse
one night 2/ 2 Piggs 16/
10 lb.Butter £1.l4.8 5. 8. 8
25 115 lb. Butter and two Firkins 11. 15.
26 63 1/2 lb. Veal £1.17 10 Dozen Eggs 14/6
26 Fowls 56/4 2 Turkeys 16/
l Bushel Turnips 4/ 24 Cabbages 8/
Keeping horse one Night 2/ 6. 17. 10
27 Paid for Mending Tea Kettle 8/
Keeping horse one Night 2/ 1 Pigg 9/
6 Bushel Oisters 33/4 2. 12. 4
29 1 Bushel Corn 6/6 24 Boats 5/ 11. 6.
30 10 Bushel Apples £3.10/ 6 Bushel
Turnips £1.17. 1 String Small Fish 10/
3 Rock fish £1.17.9 74 lb. Veal £2.3.2d.
30 Cabbages 15/ 3 Turkeys £1.17 11. 19. 11
£ 85. 14. 3
By Cash on hand at the Settlement of the last
Accot £ 38. 13. 4d.
1783 March 19th By Cash received £ 80.
29th By Do 200.
£ 318. 13. 4
Balance on hand 232. 19. 1
£318.13. 4

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