Cash Accounts, December 1770

Cash Accounts

[December 1770]

Cash
Decr 14—	To Cash recd from Mr R. Adam pr Lund Washington viz. 446 Dollars
	@ 5/9	£128. 4.6
	2 dble loons weight	8.13.9
	2 half Joes Do	4.12.6
	4 Guineas @ 26/3	5. 5.0
	458½ Pistoreens weigg	27. 1.6	173.17.31
Contra
Decr 5—	By Cash to Jno. Ball pr Richd Talbott2		12. 0.0
6—	By Ditto to Dominicus Gubner		4. 6.0
8—	By Ditto lent Wm Roberts		15. 0.0
9—	By Lund Washington to be accd for		4. 0.0
19—	By Mr Jno. Ball		20. 0.0
22—	By Charity		0. 6.0
	By Servants		0. 2.6
	By Jno. Parke Custis to buy Sundries at Fredg3		2. 6.3
26—	By Jonathan Palmer		6. 6.0
31—	By Mr Humphrey Peake4		10. 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 330.

1. GW drew this amount on the balance of his account with Carlyle & Adam of Alexandria, the firm that was at this time buying his wheat crop and much of the produce of his fishery. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 326.

2. Richard Talbott was one of the workmen helping the millwright John Ball build GW’s new mill.

3. See GW to Jonathan Boucher, 16 Dec. 1770, n.1, and editors’ note for the diary entry of 22 Dec. (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 2:332).

4. The money was given to Nancy Peake for her father who repaid the loan in June 1771. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 307.

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