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Cash Accounts, October 1765

Cash Accounts

[October 1765]

Contra
Octr 4— By Huntg Creek Inspectors £8. 0.01
6— By Chesnuts 0. 2.6
21— By Mr Saml Johnson for Mrs Smith 2.10.0
By Mr Jas Wren for Spinning Wheels &ca2 4.14.6
By 5 Oz. Verdigrease 0. 2.6
By Mrs Washington 3. 0.0
22— By Wm Halley3 1. 0.0
By Wm Gardners Acct & Rect 3.13.6

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 211, 222.

1The duty on a hogshead of tobacco was five shillings. The total recorded here was for five hogsheads shipped in the Charming Polly, eight in the Industry, and twenty in the William and Mary (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 121).

2GW had acquired from James Wren (died c.1815) in 1765 “2 Linnen Wheels,” “1 Woolen” wheel, “1 Check-Reel,” and “1 Sett of Hemp-Heckles,” for a total cost of £4.14.6. Later, probably November 1765, he got another linen wheel, for sixteen shillings (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 73). Wren drew the plans for Pohick and Falls churches in Fairfax County and for Christ Church in Alexandria.

3William Halley (Haley) of Truro Parish, Fairfax County, is credited in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 214, with £6.10 for “32½ days work on a Raising & decking a Flat.”

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