Cash Accounts, May 1765

Cash Accounts

[May 1765]

	Cash
May 1—	To Cash recd of Colo. Edwards Bal[anc]e of Bond1	£ 49.14.6
2—	To Doctr [James] Carter for Int of Mrs [Joanna] McKenzies Bond	10.16.0
4—	To Interest Recd of Mr Wm Dandridges B[on]d	22. 0.5
	To Ditto recd of Mr Phil. W: Claibornes Do	14. 0.0
7—	To Cash recd of the Receivr Genl for Colo. [John] Carlyle	40. 0.02
10—	To Cash of Mr Edmd Pendleton on acct Armisteads Exrs protest3	100. 0.0
	To Cash of Francis Foster by Colo. [Burwell] Basset	5. 0.0
	To Ditto of Joseph Valentine
	To Ditto of Mr Matt: Phrip for Mr Chas Digges	74. 0.04
	Contra
May 1—	By Mr Chs Yates for 35 Bls of Hemp seed5	35. 0.0
	By my last proportion for Mr Jos. Jones’s Land pd Mr James Gibson6	33. 6.8
2—	By Colo. Jno. Thornton for a pr of Millstones bot of Mr Jackson’s Estate7	30. 0.0
	By my Exps. to Williamsburg	1. 3.0
	By my Do to hear the Armonica8	0. 3.9
3—	By Club & Coffee	0. 4.3
	By Servants 1/3d.—Coffee 1/3	0. 2.6
7—	By Club at Trebels 6/—Do at Do 4/	0.10.0
	By Do at Do 5/—Mendg my Buttons 7/6	0.12.6
	By Sadler’s Acct 10/—Barber’s Do 12/6	1. 2.6
10—	By Mrs Campbells Acct	3. 5.0
12—	By Colo. Bassets Servants	0. 3.9

	By Exps. at Todds 6/—Do at Hubbards 8/6	0.14.6
13—	By Wm Parker old Acct9	0.10.0
	By 3 Yards Muslin for Mrs Green	1.10.0
	By repairing watch	0.15.0
14—	By Servants 2/—Exps. at Allans Ordy 1/3	0. 3.3
16—	By Mr Lund Washington	6. 0.0
20—	By Dinner & Club at Arrols 2/6	0. 2.6
	By 2 Oz. of Verdigrease	0. 2.6
	By Henry Taylor	1.16.3
	By Cash pd Colo. Carlyle (wch I recd for him)	40. 0.0
	By Ditto sent Mr Chs Digges	74. 0.010
29—	By 500 Bushls of Oyster shells a 18/	4.10.0
	By Servants 1/3	0. 1.3
	By Joseph Devenport to pay Levies	14. 0.011
31—	By Zach: Connel for bringg down 26 Bls of Hemp seed	2. 0.0

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 203, 208.

1. For the history of the loan made by John Custis to Nathaniel Edwards in the 1740s, see doc. III-B, n.12, in Settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, 20 April 1759–5 Nov. 1761.

2. See entry in Contra, below.

3. For background to the debt of William Armistead, see doc. III-B, n.14, in Settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, 20 April 1759–5 Nov. 1761. GW noted in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 192, that he received from Edmund Pendleton £100 in Virginia currency, from which was “deduct[ed] 65 prCt (Excha[nge] settled by the Court),” making it a payment of £60.12.2 sterling, which in turn left a balance owed of £172.16.7 sterling.

4. See entry in Contra, below. Matthew Phripp was a prominent merchant in Norfolk.

5. Charles Yates was a merchant in Fredericksburg.

6. See Cash Accounts, December 1764, n.3.

7. Col. John Thornton (d. 1777) of Spotsylvania County was an administrator of the estate of Robert Jackson of Fredericksburg, who died in 1764.

8. The making of music by rubbing one’s fingers around the moistened rims of glasses was popular in London in the mid-eighteenth century, and probably in 1761 but perhaps before that, Benjamin Franklin devised an instrument based upon the musical glasses and called it an armonica, which was widely used. See Labaree, Papers of Franklin description begins William B. Willcox et al., eds. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. 42 vols. to date. New Haven, 1959–. description ends , 10:116–30, for an account of its invention and use.

9. William Parker ran an ordinary in his house in Caroline County.

10. For the payments of £40 and £74, see entries in the cash side of the ledger, above.

11. This was the amount paid in taxes for John Parke Custis’s and the dower property combined.

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