1. Valinda Wade (Waid) was a widow living with her three daughters on a tract of land adjoining Mount Vernon’s Mill farm. Edward Barrett paid the 12s. 9d. for Mrs. Wade on 15 Feb. 1762 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 81, 93).

2. During the 1760s Andrew Robinson used GW’s blacksmith and in return sometimes worked for GW, making fishing nets and repairing seines (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 196).

3. Thomas Coulter lived in Fairfax County.

4. Thomas Hardin was overseer of a plantation near Mount Vernon.

5. Abednego Adams was a neighboring planter.

6. The charge of one shilling was for “Drilling your Gun” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 115). Harrison Manley (d. 1773) was the son of Sarah Harrison Manley.

7. John Roan was overseer of Claiborne’s in King William County, one of GW’s dower plantations.

8. John Robinson settled Philip Johnson’s account at this time with a payment to GW of £273.12.5 sterling (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 126). Concannon & Jordan was a London firm, and Farell & Jones was in Bristol.

9. With these two payments Robert Alexander paid off his bond of indebtedness of £100 given to GW in 1761 in purchase of an English stallion (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 96).

10. GW’s ledger reveals that he settled his account with John Posey on 26 July 1762, taking Posey’s bond of £100. Posey made payments on the bond of £10 on 8 Nov., £20 on 25 Dec., and 7s. 6d. on 28 Dec. 1761 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 92).

11. GW claimed £6 for “12 days attendance” in the November 1761 session and £4 for eight days in the March 1762 session; £5 in each instance for “10 travelling days”; and £1.5 in each instance for “Ferriage of a Chariot, Horses &ca at Occoquan, Fredericksburg & Dansies comg & going” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 122).

12. Charles Digges (1740–1769) was the son of William Digges (1713–1783) of Warburton, Prince George’s County, Maryland.

13. In 1763 GW bought from Simon Pearson (c.1738–1797) for £191.7 a tract of 178 acres which became a part of his Mount Vernon holdings. See note 44. The deed from Pearson to GW, dated 14 Feb. 1763, is in DLC:GW.

14. Harry Gaines of King William County was one of the planters indebted to the Daniel Parke Custis estate when it was being settled in 1759. See 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 , 6:257.

15. GW indicates in his General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 5, that in November 1762 Thomas Dent paid him £2.3 for the surveying that he had done on 23 Mar. 1751 for John Grubb “of Pennsylvania.” The tract that GW surveyed for Grubb was 431 acres near the South Fork of Bullskin Run; it was granted to Samuel and William Grubb on 1 Sept. 1762 (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 , 1:28).

16. This is John West, Junior.

17. GW has this entry in his account with Simon Pearson, dated 15 Dec. 1762, “To Ditto [cash] to Peter Harllee—viz. 10/. out of which he was to pay for a Bottle of Brandy 1/3—so—[0.]8.9” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 132).

18. This is probably John Kirkpatrick, but it may be his brother Thomas who was his partner in business in Alexandria.

19. This may be Robert Wilson who was one of the “Proprietors” of a ball in Alexandria on 15 Feb. 1760 and from whom GW rented a flatboat on 20 June 1762 (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:238; Cash Accounts, 1762, entry below).

20. James Tarpley was a merchant in Williamsburg.

21. GW noted in his diary on 13 May 1762, “Got a Cask of Leith Ale from Mr. Marshall Piscatwy” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:298). James Marshall had a tavern in Piscataway, Prince George’s County, Maryland. Cluney may be the Alexander Clunie who wrote Lord Dartmouth on 18 April 1769 about the Maryland trade (Virginia Magazine, 17 [1909], 216).

22. “Mantulet” may be a mantelet, a cape or covering of sorts.

23. William Jackson was overseer of Bridge Quarter, one of GW’s dower plantations in York County.

24. This was probably Dr. James Carter who practiced medicine in Williamsburg.

25. There were two Owen Robertses living in neighboring Loudoun County at this time, one of whom died c.1775 and the other c.1780.

26. GW employed John Beedy throughout the 1760s to dress and tan hides (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 78, 157, 212).

27. John Patterson (d. 1768) was the joiner and master carpenter who did extensive work on the house at Mount Vernon in the summer and early fall of 1758.

28. William Hunter, the publisher of the Virginia Gazette, died in 1761.

29. Thomas Everard (1719–1781), who lived in Williamsburg, was clerk of York County.

30. For GW’s later dealings with Daniel Tebbs, see Cash Accounts, April 1764, n.17. There were Tebbs and Calvert families living in Prince William County.

31. Most of this amount was for the use of “Mr [William] Brents Stallion [Ariel] to 3 Mares @2 Guineas each” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 101). GW’s English bay and black mares were brought back from William Digges’s Warburton on 13 July after more than six weeks across the Potomac (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:299–302).

32. GW paid these amounts on 5 and 6 Oct. 1762 for “Butter Liquor Iron &ca” that Richard Stephenson of Frederick County (d. 1765) had supplied him over the past two or three years (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 3).

33. This was to settle GW’s account with Lord Fairfax from whom in October 1761 he had got “9 head of Cattle” for £12 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 119).

34. GW wrote in his diary on 18 Mar. 1762, “Agreed to give Turner Crump one Sixth part of what he can make by my Carpenters this Year, which is to commense the 22d. day of Octr.” 1761 (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:295).

35. John Crook was a tenant on the Mount Vernon tract.

36. Valentine Crawford regularly brought butter down from Frederick County to GW as well as GW’s mountain tobacco.

37. See GW’s Agreement with Burgis (Burgess) Mitchell, 1 May 1762.

38. In March 1762 GW noted in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 7, having bought from his brother Samuel for £30 “a Negroe fellow—wt. one hand named Chs” and for £10 “a white Servt Robt Haims.”

39. GW went to Westmoreland County in March 1762 for the funeral of his half brother Augustine Washington. He went from there to Williamsburg to attend the assembly that sat from 30 Mar. to 7 April.

40. GW may have gone to consult the lawyer John Mercer at his place, Marlborough, or he may be referring to Upper Marlboro, Md., which he usually called “Marlborough.”

41. GW left Mount Vernon for Frederick County on 30 Oct. 1762 and was away for eight days.

42. GW started out for Williamsburg on 10 Nov. to attend the session of the Virginia assembly which began on 2 Nov. and lasted until 23 Dec. 1762. He returned home on 1 December.

43. On 13–14 Jan. 1762 GW bought George Ashford’s tract of land on Dogue Run, adjoining the tract he had bought from Ashford’s brother John in 1761. See Cash Accounts, 1761, n.66.

44. Simon Pearson’s land lay immediately to the north and west of the two Ashford tracts. See note 43.

45. Lee Massey (1732–1814), a native of King George County, was a lawyer who later became an Anglican clergyman and began serving as rector of Truro Parish in 1767. There are at least ten slaves listed in GW’s list of tithables, c.9 June 1762, whose names do not appear in his list of 1761.

46. In a diary entry of 20 July 1762, GW notes, “Bot. Frederick & Judy of Mr. Lewis” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:302). GW did not list a slave Frederick at Mount Vernon until 1766 and no Judy there until 1764.

47. William Payne, who replaced John West, Jr., as sheriff of Fairfax County, served in the office in 1762 and 1763. GW paid taxes on 64 tithables at 4/ —£12.16, on 8,505 acres of land at 2/ —£8.10.1, and “on Wheel Carriages”—£1.10 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 99).

48. See Memorandum: List of Quitrents, 1761.

49. GW noted in his diary on 21 Aug. 1762, “Recd. 70 Bags of Salt—abt. 280 Bushels” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:305). Thomas Buchanan may be the Maryland merchant of that name.

50. See GW to Robert Cary & Co., 30 Sept. 1762.

51. Isaac Gates lived near Mount Vernon.

52. This may be William Hawkins who lived in Fairfax County at this time. In 1754 he and Michael Ashford were defendants in a suit by Lawrence Washington’s executors for collection of a debt (Fairfax County Order Book [1749–54], 496).

53. There were several Jenkins families in Fairfax County, but this may be the William Jenkins who served throughout the French and Indian War as a courier between Williamsburg and the frontier commander.

54. One of GW’s slaves named Sam was a skilled carpenter, and he had another slave at Muddy Hole farm named Sam. See Memorandum: List of Tithables, c.9 June 1762.

55. GW’s diary entry for 28 June 1762 includes “Roan’s bay & sorrel covered by Mr. Rozers Traveller” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:299). Henry Rozer lived at Notley Hall in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

56. On 3 May, GW hired a bricklayer named Guy, a slave belonging to William Daingerfield; and before Philip Fletcher “came to making Bricks” on 2 Aug. 1762, Guy had finished three sides of the garden wall (ibid., 297–98, 304).

57. GW noted owing Daniel Sanford five shillings for inspecting at Hunting Creek two hogsheads of tobacco in 1760 and £11.15 for “duties on 47 Hhds pr the Tryal [William] McGachin” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 121).

58. Col. Willis Riddick (1725–1782), of The Retreat, and John Hall both lived in Nansemond County. Beginning in 1763 with the founding of the Dismal Swamp Land Company, GW became a regular visitor to Suffolk and Nansemond County where he had further dealings with Colonel Riddick.

59. William Ramsay, James Laurie (Lawrie), and John Kirkpatrick were managers of the “Alexandria annual Purse” scheduled to be run on Thursday 27 May 1762 (Maryland Gazette [Annapolis], supplement, 6 May 1762). GW had been one of the managers of the horse race in 1761.

60. Presumably GW brought the subscriptions from Williamsburg to Alexandria for Attorney General Peyton Randolph and for his fellow burgesses Benjamin Grymes (1725–c.1776), representing Spotsylvania County; John Baylor (1705–1772), Caroline County; Carter Braxton, King William County; and William Kennon (d. 1784), Charles City County.