1. Hector Ross had bought five hogsheads of tobacco and 15,000 shingles from GW. His payments of £56 “in Williamsburg” on 5 Nov. and of £10.12.11 on 6 Nov. 1768 were to settle his account (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 276).

2. Most of what GW paid James Gibson with these bills of exchange was in payment on the land in North Carolina that GW and Fielding Lewis had bought from Marmaduke Norfleet in 1766. See the entries for 5 Nov. 1768 in contra, below, and General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 239 and 241, for further data on the complex financing of the joint purchase of Norfleet’s land.

3. GW records in his Guardian Accounts (ViLxW) on 5 May 1768 having drawn £100 “in favour of Mr James Gibson” on John Parke Custis’s account with Capel and Osgood Hanbury.

4. See GW to Robert Cary & Co., 5 May 1768.

5. Carlyle & Adam gave GW on 17 Oct. in payment for his wheat two bills of exchange “drawn by Theod[oric]k Bland upon Jno. Bland & dated Octr 7th 1768,” one for £50 sterling and the other for £44.14.8 sterling (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 280).

6. GW’s brother John Augustine Washington was at Mount Vernon on 21 Nov., and he paid GW £11.9.2½ for Anne Aylett Washington to close out the account of her late husband Augustine Washington with his half brother GW. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 2.

7. This was in payment for 47 yards of cloth that the Misses Wade (Eleanor, Sarah, and Valinda) had bought from GW’s weavers in 1767. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 260.

8. This was probably Barberry (Barbara) Sheridine who lived on Clifton’s Neck on land rented from GW by her father-in-law John Sheridine and worked by her husband John Sheridine, Jr., until his death in 1768.

9. These were forms for leasing land to tenants.

10. See GW’s accounts with Fielding Lewis and with Marmaduke Norfleet (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 239, 241).

11. Before leaving Williamsburg on 6 Nov., GW noted that on 5 Nov. he “Dined at Mrs. Campbells where I had spent all my Evenings, Since I came to Town.” He had arrived on 30 Oct. (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 2:107).

12. The date of this entry is illegible. GW notes in his diary that on 17 Nov. he “Went up to a Race by Mr. [Marmaduke] Beckwiths” (ibid., 109).

13. GW records paying, “by order of the Vestry,” £8 to the merchant Alexander Henderson, “at the Vestry” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 224).