Cash Accounts, December 1764

Cash Accounts

[December 1764]

	Contra
Decr 11—	By Mrs Devenports Acct	£ 1. 4. 6
13—	By Club at Trebels 6/	0. 6. 0
14—	By Club at Ditto 7/6—By the new duty of Man 5/1	0.12. 6
	By Mrs [Christiana] Campbell—pd her in Cash £22.7.6 allowed pr Jos. Valentine 11.11.3	33.18.10
	By Mr [James] Martin—Barber’s Acct	3. 0. 9
16—	By my quota of £480 voted by Compy of Adventurers in the Dismal Swamp2	40. 0. 0
	By my ⅓ of the purchase money of Jones’s Land & which I paid to Colo. Fieldg Lewis3	33. 6. 8
	By Servants 6/3. Club at Trebels 5/	0.11. 3
18—	By Exps. at Hubbards 24/6—Servts 3/6	1. 8. 0
	By my Mother £15—By Exps. at Allan’s 2/6	15. 2. 6
19—	By Mr Richd Graham freight 4¼. Casks Wine fm Lisbn4	3. 4. 0
	By Exps. at Dumfries 20/. Ferriage &ca Colchr 8/9	1. 8. 9
	By year’s Ferriage left wt. my Mother for Hume	0.10. 0
24—	By Fish 14/6—By Jno. Alton £10	10.14. 6
	By Jno. Askew money lent	12. 0. 0
	By James Cleveland for a horse5	4. 0. 06

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 189.

1. The New Duty of Man, which appears in List of Books, 1764, was a book of devotionals, new versions of which were frequently published. On 1 May 1766 GW charged to the account of his employee Sarah Harle 4s. 6d. for “1 New whole Duty of Man” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 216).

2. The Dismal Swamp Land Company met on 16 Dec. 1764 and voted to raise £480 “for carrying on our operation’s in the D. Swamp.” GW’s quota was £40, and he paid it to Fielding Lewis (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 194).

3. The three managers of the Dismal Swamp Land Company, GW, Fielding Lewis, and Thomas Walker, bought from Joseph Jones and Dr. James Wright 1,119 acres of land in Nansemond County on the road from Suffolk to Norfolk. Part of the tract was in the Dismal Swamp. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 193, 241.

4. Richard Graham (d. 1796) was one of the Scottish merchants in Dumfries.

5. James Cleveland became overseer of GW’s River farm on Clifton’s Neck at Mount Vernon and remained in his employ until the Revolution.

6. GW closes his cash accounts for the year with the following entries: “By mistake in Countg the English Silvr last year £15.5.10½

“By money lost, Stolen, or miscounted 88.6.2½

“By D[itt]o upon hand this day & carrd to Acct for 1765—folio 203—viz. In Virginia Paper 280 English Silvr 10.5.7½ Dollars 14. @6/6 [£]4.11. Pistoles 4 @24/[£]4.16 ½ a Guinea . 15 [total] £403.19.7½” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 189).

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