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Cash Accounts, November 1763

Cash Accounts

[November 1763]

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Novr 1— By 1 dozn Oranges 5/—Washing 5/—Servts 4/ £ 0.14. 0
By Club at Trebells 2/6—Smith 1/3 0. 3. 9
3— By Mrs Campbells Acct £4.4.0—Barbers £1.8.0 5.12. 0
By Barber at York 0. 2. 6
By Servants Do 2/6 0. 2. 6
6— By Doctr [Thomas] Walker for part of the Exps. to the Surveyors of Nansemond & Norfolk1 6. 0. 0
By Mr Barthw Dandridge for Sundries 2.11.10
By 1 pr Scissars 1/6—Servants 5/ 0. 6. 6
8— By Exps. at King Wm Ct House 0. 5. 6
9— By Ditto at Tods Bridge 12/3—Do at Sneads 2/62 0.14. 9
By Ferriage at Port Royal 2/6—3 Gave away 2/6 0. 5. 0
10— By Ferriage, & Ferrymen at Hoes4 0.15. 3
12— By Samuel Johnson Junr for John Prescot 2. 0. 0
Do for Balle of Acct 5. 3. 8
13— By a Negroe Doctr to Breechy5 0.10. 0
15— By Edward Violet £6—Do to his Wife for her share of Butter £5/ 11. 0. 0
27— By John Alton 3. 0. 0
By Henry Taylor 1. 0. 0
29— By Expences at Alexandria 0. 7. 8
By Turner mendg Coffee Mill 3/66—By [Thomas] Bishop 8/10 0.12. 4

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 171.

1. See note 2 in Dismal Swamp Land Company: Minutes of Meeting, 3 Nov. 1763.

2. Sneed’s ordinary was in Caroline County.

3. Port Royal is a small town on the Rappahannock River downstream from Fredericksburg.

4. GW crossed the Potomac into Maryland at Hooe’s ferry and then back across the river, probably at John Posey’s ferry, to Mount Vernon.

5. Breechy, a male dower slave, was a servant in the house at Mount Vernon. In 1764 Breechy ran away and was returned to GW by Christmas (Criemus) Meekins (Meakens) of New Kent County on 19 Dec. 1764 (receipt of GW to Meekins, ViHi: Custis Papers).

6. Charles Turner operated an ordinary in Alexandria and mended a number of items for GW.

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    “Cash Accounts, November 1763,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-07-02-0162. [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, pp. 268–269.]