Memorandum, 27 April 1772
Memorandum
[27 April 1772]
On the 27th April 1772, Drew 2 Setts of Exchange on Robt Cary Esqr. & Co. in favr of Co⟨lo.⟩ Bassett. one for £200 Sterg the other for £133.6.8 to be sold by him & the Money pd to Mr James Hill to pay Phips Jackson for his Ld bot by Josh Valentine for J. P. Custis.1
Also gave Colo. Bassett an Acct agt the Treasury for £36.9.3 and Cash to the amt of £63.10.9 to pay Bernd Moores Trustee’s £100—Mr Nicholas to deduct however out of the £36.9.3 the Money due Lord Bottetourts Estate.2
Also desird Colo. Bassett to settle with Colo. Tabb & Mr Charlton for the Excha. of T. Colvills Bill’s.3
Sent Colo. Fieldg Lewis the Protest against Armisteads Execrs to settle with Mr Jno. Armistead4—and an Acct against Colo. L. Burwell for £55.17.0 desiring him out of these Sums & what Mr Hill shd be able to ⟨Collect⟩ to pay my5 ⟨mutilated⟩ of him & £15 due Geo. Carter’s Estate.
Sent Mr James Hill the following Sums to Collect & pay to Colo. Lewis.
| Frans Foster | £35. 0.0 |
| Exrs P. Claiborne | 14. |
| Mr Willm Dandridge | 22. 0.5 |
| Doctr Carter6 | 10.16. |
| Mr Ths Prosser7 | 7. 5.9 |
| Mr Auge Seaton8 | 2. 3.0 |
Note—settle the above matters in my Book &ca.
AD, NjMoHP.
1. For GW’s purchase of this land on Queens Creek for John Parke Custis, see note 1 in List of Slaves Belonging to George Washington and John Parke Custis, December 1771. See also GW to Robert Cary & Co., 16 Mar. and 25 May 1772.
2. See Cash Accounts, April 1772, nn.2 and 11, and Burwell Bassett to GW, 13 May. See also Bernard Moore to GW, 11 May.
3. John Tabb and Edward Charlton were among the assignees of John Semple who passed bills of exchange on Glasgow merchants in part payment for the Merryland tract in Maryland (, folio 21). For background to the settlement of the Colvill estate and the sale of the Merryland tract, see Semple to GW, 8 Jan. 1770, source note, GW to William Peareth, 20 Sept. 1770, n.2, and Cash Accounts, March 1772, n.5.
4. The trustees of William Armistead’s estate paid £250.00 of the estate’s debt in December 1772 (Cash Accounts).
5. See Cash Accounts, March 1772, n.6. There are several illegible lines following this.
6. James Carter had taken over Joanna McKenzie’s bond. See Guardian Accounts, 1 May 1771, and GW to Carter, 27 April 1772.
7. This is probably Thomas Prosser of Henrico County and most likely the man of that name who represented Cumberland County and was expelled from the House of Burgesses in 1765 for “sundry unjust and fraudulent Practices” involving deeds and conveyances (, 307). Prosser and Peterfield Trent’s bond was for £145.15 (see Guardian Accounts, 3 Nov. 1773).
8. See GW to Bernard Moore, 23 Jan. 1771, n.1. For James Hill’s attempts to collect these sums, see Hill to GW, 14 May 1772.