George Washington Papers

Cash Accounts, January 1759

Cash Accounts

[January 1759]

Cash
Jany 5th 59 To Ditto [cash] of Mr Boyd pr Acct £149.19.71
Contra
Jany By a Coach 2/6. Exps. at Chissels 5/.  Cards 20/2 1. 7.6
By Servants 2/6.  Cards 60/ 3. 2.6
By Thos Bishop—lent 2. 3.0

D, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 52, 55.

1. Paymaster Alexander Boyd paid GW money owed him for his service as colonel of the Virginia Regiment. It would appear that GW collected his salary on the day before his marriage on 6 January. He received an additional £14.4.4 in April 1760 (Cash Accounts) that was still owed him for his military service. His salary as colonel was £1.10 a day. See GW to Robert Dinwiddie, 10 June 1757, n.5.

2. Perhaps GW spent the night before his wedding playing cards at Chiswell’s ordinary, which was near Mrs. Custis’s house.

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    “Cash Accounts, January 1759,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-06-02-0150. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 6, 4 September 1758 – 26 December 1760, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, p. 184.]