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Cash Accounts, March 1766

Cash Accounts

[March 1766]

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Mar. 2— By Robert Haims £ 1. 0.0
8— By Sarah Harle1 1.15.0
15— By Charity 1. 0.0
17— By Cards 15/—Cash sent Jno. W[ashingto]n 15£ 15.15.0
26— By Edwd Williams 2. 0.0
By James Donaldson for repg a Gun 1 Dollar 7. 6.02
27— By an Anchor for my Schooner3 3. 2.0
28— By Captn [Henry] McCabe, 29 English Shillings for £1.8.11 Sterg due pr Acct 1.16.3

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 230.

1. In September 1765 Sarah Harle, probably the daughter of William Harle (d. 1750) of Fairfax County, went to work for GW at Mount Vernon and remained in his employ at the house for more than two years, until 23 May 1767 when he gave her an extra month’s salary. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 216.

2. This may be the James Donaldson who was active in Fairfax County affairs until his death in 1770. He may be the same James Donaldson who enlisted in the Virginia Regiment from Stafford County in 1755 at the age of 28. GW indicates he paid in Maryland currency.

3. For the reference to the building of GW’s schooner, see Cash Accounts, December 1765, n.6.

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    “Cash Accounts, March 1766,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-07-02-0279. [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. 430–431.]