Cash Accounts, September 1773

Cash Accounts

[September 1773]

Cash
Septr 13—	To Cash won at Cards	£ 0. 7. 6
20—	To Cash of David Rankin for Rent1	4. 0. 0
23—	To Ditto Recd from Mr Herbert on acct of Fishing2	21. 0. 0

Contra
2—	By Cash paid Willm Roberts	25. 0. 0
	By Ditto sent to the Ann[apoli]s Printer3	1. 4. 0
4—	By Do pd John Javins for 20 Bls Wheat M.	4. 0. 0
	By Charity4	6. 0. 0
	By Cash paid John Hagan	0.12. 0
7—	By Ditto Mrs Washington	1.10. 0
	By Ditto pd Mr Jno. Orr for two Bed Ticks	3. 4. 0
	By Giles’s Exps. to Annapolis	0. 6. 0
17—	By Mr Robt Harrison for Sundy Opns5	5. 0. 0
23—	By Messrs Hall & Gilpen for Iron	11. 8. 6
	By Doms Havenor	0.18. 0
	By Travellg Exps. to and from the Annapolis Races6	4.16.10
	By Sundry Play Tickets	3. 6. 0
	By a Ticket to the Ball	0. 6. 0
	By Cards & Racing	3.16. 0
	By Servants	1.15. 3
		14. 0. 1
	By Cash pd for Mr Custis’s Exps. there	3. 0. 0

AD, General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 91, 93.

1. In 1769 David Rankin began renting from GW for £4 a year “113 Acres of Land on the head of Worthington’s Marsh in Fredk County” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 306). GW received on 20 Sept. 1773 the last payment of Rankin’s rent for the year 1772 from “my Brothr Saml Washington” (General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 32).

2. William Herbert (1743–1818), who had arrived from Ireland a few years before, was married to John Carlyle’s daughter Sarah and was a merchant in Alexandria.

3. GW wrote in his Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends on 2 Sept.: “By Cash sent to the Annapolis Printers for Publishg my Advertisements” (DLC:GW). One of the advertisements was for the Clifton’s Neck land, under the date of 4 Aug., and the other was the Advertisement of Western Lands, under the date of 15 July. Both advertisements appeared in the Maryland Gazette (Annapolis) for 9 Sept.; they appeared in the Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon; Williamsburg) for the first time on 29 July.

4. In his Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends , under date of 4 Sept., GW charges £6 to “Cash gave Captn Posey,” undoubtedly the “Charity” recorded here.

5. See Robert Hanson Harrison to GW, 8, 11 September.

6. See Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 3:205–6, 208.

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