George Washington Papers

Cash Accounts, September 1766

Cash Accounts

[September 1766]

Cash
Septr 11— To Ditto [cash] of Jeremiah Wood by Colo. Martin £2. 3. 01
Contra
Septr 6— By Sarah Harle 0. 2. 6
14— By Thomas Bishop 4. 0. 0
16— By Edwd William’s Balle Accts 0.15.10
18— By Robt Haims Combing 4 lbs. Wool 0. 6. 0
By Ditto Do Spinng 3 lb. Worsted 0. 9. 0
21— By Jno. Cannon for J. P. Custis2 3.15. 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 234.

1. This may be payment to GW for his 1750 survey of 292 acres of land for Jeremiah Wood in Frederick County. Wood was not granted the land until 19 June 1766, and £2.3 Virginia currency was GW’s usual fee for a survey of under 1,000 acres (Papers, Colonial Series description begins W. W. Abbot et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series. 10 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1983–95. description ends , 1:14, 16, 26). Thomas Bryan Martin was Lord Fairfax’s land agent.

2. GW charges John Parke Custis’s account £3.15 “To John Cannon—Sadlers—Do [Account]” (Guardian Accounts, 11 April 1767).

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    Cash Accounts, September 1766
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    “Cash Accounts, September 1766,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-07-02-0311. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 7, 1 January 1761 – 15 June 1767, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990, p. 461.]