1Receipt to Sarah Read, 21 October 1746 (Franklin Papers)
...to William Rakestraw for carpentry, to Samuel Alford for making a silver spoon, to Anthony Nicholas “for Iron work Done too pump & Seller Dores of house,” to Bridget Sullivan for beef and veal, to Simon Edgell, Samuel Coates and others for various kinds of goods. Richard Warder signed two receipts for rent paid by Mrs. Read, Christopher Thompson signed one. There are receipts from three...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 25 January 1756 (Franklin Papers)
We have enjoyed your roast beef, and this day began on the roast veal; all agree that they are both the best that ever were of the kind. Your citizens, that have their dinners hot and hot, know
3[May 1761] (Adams Papers)
...corn’d leg of pork, with sauce proper for it, a leg of bacon, a piece of alamode beef, a leg of mutton with caper sauce, a piece of roast beef, a roast line [loin] of veal, a roast turkey, a venison pastee, besides chess cakes and tarts, cheese and butter. Half a dozen cooks were employed upon this occasion, upwards of twenty tenders to wait upon the tables; they had the best...
4[Draft of a Letter to the Boston Gazette, May 1761.] (Adams Papers)
...corn’d leg of pork, with sauce proper for it, a leg of bacon, a piece of alamode beef, a leg of mutton with caper sauce, a piece of roast beef, a roast line [loin] of veal, a roast turkey, a venison pastee, besides chess cakes and tarts, cheese and butter. Half a dozen cooks were employed upon this occasion, upwards of twenty tenders to wait upon the tables; they had the best...
5From George Washington to Charles Green, 26–30 August 1761 (Washington Papers)
The Place I am told, and indeed have found it so already, is supplyed with Provisions of all kinds—good Beef & venison, fine Veal, Lamb, Fowls &ca may be bought at almost any time; but Lodgings can be had on no Terms but building for them,
6IV-A. General Account of the Estate, c.November 1761 (Washington Papers)
Beef 669 lb. & a bar[re]n Cow & Veal
, Nov. 15–18, 1766. The guests were numerous enough to have to be seated in two large rooms, and the table in each room was laden with: a buttock of beef, a filet of veal, a ham, three boiled fowls, a goose, a pigeon pie, a rice pudding, and an apple pie. The “Liquors” consisted of: red port and mountain wines, rum punch and brandy punch, three sorts of...
8Cash Accounts, September 1767 (Washington Papers)
1 Quarter of Veal29 lb. Veal
9September [1767] (Washington Papers)
). The family cook who accompanied the Washingtons had soon laid in a quarter each of veal and venison and such sundries as butter, eggs, squash, corn, cucumbers, watermelons, peaches, and apples. Mrs. Washington’s two children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis, remained at Mount Vernon under the care...
10[Diary entry: 18 September 1767] (Washington Papers)
). The family cook who accompanied the Washingtons had soon laid in a quarter each of veal and venison and such sundries as butter, eggs, squash, corn, cucumbers, watermelons, peaches, and apples. Mrs. Washington’s two children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis, remained at Mount Vernon under the care...