1. Robert Jackson was a Fredericksburg merchant.

2. In his account with Thomas Mobbs GW in January 1761 records a loss of 13s. 6d. “pr Smiths Book” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 117).

3. “Mr Alexr” is probably Robert Alexander (d. 1793), son of Col. Garrard (Gerard) Alexander of Alexandria.

4. GW in the early 1760s made payments to Samuel Brasenton (Brazington) and his wife for dressing skins, making leather pants, knitting boys’ stockings, and for her acting as a midwife for “a Negroe Wench” (ibid., 81, 158).

5. Daniel Parke Custis frequently employed James Danforth as a blacksmith.

6. Elizabeth Vaughan was a seamstress who made at least one gown for Martha Washington before her marriage.

7. George Heath, who was perhaps the same George Heath who owned land in New Kent County in 1787, was at this time a tailor. Martha Custis often employed him to make clothes for her son and servants.

8. This was probably Richard Chamberlayne of Poplar Grove, New Kent County, but it may have been his brother Edward Pye Chamberlayne. Both men had business dealings with Daniel Parke Custis before his death and with Martha Custis before her marriage to GW.

9. Although GW’s account with Mary Washington in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends shows no cash transaction with his mother between May 1757 and October 1764, this is only one of a very large number of such entries in his cash accounts.

10. See note 1.

11. GW wrote at the end of John Winter’s personal account in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 54, “Jno. Winter before he had near finishd Painting my House Stole a good deal of my Paint & Oyl and apprehensive of Justice ran of.” John Fendall ran an advertisement dated 22 June 1760 in the Maryland Gazette: “Ran away from the Subscriber, a Convict Servant Man named John Winter, a very compleat House Painter; he can imitate Marble or mahogany very exactly, and can paint Floor Cloths as neat as any imported from Britain, The Time of his going off is uncertain, as he was hired to a Gentleman in Virginia who can give no Account of the Time. The last Work he did was a House for Col. Washington near Alexandria. He must be pretty well known there, having work’d at his Business several Months in Town. He is a very impertinent Fellow, pretty tall, and very red about the Nose and Face” (Maryland Gazette [Annapolis], 26 June 1760).

12. William Lewis was probably the son of Thomas Lewis (died c.1771), the nephew and legatee of the Thomas Lewis who until his death in 1749 lived on Charles Washington’s land on the Potomac River near Mount Vernon. Thomas’s widow Sarah Lewis still lived there.

13. GW records having lent £21 to his overseer Richard Stephens (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 53). For the identity of Kirkpatrick, see John Kirkpatrick to GW, 23 Aug. 1758. The justices of each county were required by law “to mark and lay out the bounds and rules of their respective county prisons, not exceeding ten acres.” Under the law all prisoners except traitors and felons could, after giving good security, be permitted to walk about for their health (5 Hening description begins William Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. 13 vols. 1819–23. Reprint. Charlottesville, Va., 1969. description ends 508).

14. Nanjemoy was a village in Charles County, Maryland.