Cash Accounts, August 1759
Cash Accounts
[August 1759]
Cash | ||
Augt 9— | To Cash of Sampson Darrel for the Rent of Mrs Gists Pl[antatio]n1 | £6. 1.8 |
10— | To Ditto of Mr F. Lewis for 2 Hhds Tobo at Dixon’s WareHo.2 | 38. 3.6 |
To ditto of Captn Posey Maryland Curry3 | 1. 1.6 | |
27— | To ditto of Mrs Manley4—Carpenter’s Work | 8. 7.6 |
To ditto for Wool | 0. 6.0 | |
*To ditto of Colo. Carlyle for the use of my Horse | 0.10.0 | |
To ditto Smithwork of R. Scott pd by Mr Clifton5 | 0. 2.6 | |
To Ditto of Mr Saml Washington for old Guns6 | 5.10.0 | |
31st— | *N.B. This day I had in hand | |
Gold | £293.14.4 1/2 | |
English Silvr | 25.10.0 | |
Other Silver | 27. 1.4 | |
Paper | 72.13.0 | |
418.18.8 1/2 | ||
Contra | ||
August— | By Mrs Washington in half Bitts &ca | 3. 0.0 |
10— | By Cash paid for 10 Bushels of Rye 8 of wch for J:W.7 | 1.15.0 |
By Going Lamphire in full for Turnery8 | 7.14.7 1/2 | |
20— | By Ferriages 5/. By ditto 7/6 in Maryland | 0.12.6 |
26— | By Miss Dent 35/ two shilgs of wch for P. Custis9 | 1.15.0 |
29— | By given away | 0. 2.6 |
AD, 58.
, folio1. In 1757 GW bought two tracts of land adjoining Mount Vernon from Sampson Darrell. See George Johnston to GW, 8 Jan. 1760, n.2. John Gist was renting a part of the Darrell tract along Dogue Run and his mother Ann Gist was living there.
2. Dixon’s warehouse, at Falmouth, in King George County, was one of the warehouses appointed for the inspection of tobacco.
3. The amount paid by Posey is given in Maryland currency.
4. Sarah Harrison Manley (d. 1785) was the widow of John Manley (died c.1750) who owned land both on the eastern side of Belvoir Neck and across Dogue Run on the Mount Vernon side.
5. R. Scott may be Robert Scott of Prince William County. Clifton is William Clifton.
6. Samuel Washington (1734–1781) was the eldest of GW’s three younger brothers.
7. In August 1759 GW charged his brother John Augustine Washington’s account £1.8 “for 8 Bushls Rye” ( , folio 9).
8. Going Lanphier, a carpenter and housebuilder from Alexandria, worked on GW’s house at Mount Vernon when it was enlarged and improved in 1759 and again in 1774–75 ( , 3:246).
9. Elizabeth Dent seems to have lived at Belvoir and had on occasion made shirts for GW. See George William Fairfax to GW, 5 Aug. 1758. A Thomas Dent worked for George William Fairfax, possibly as an overseer or manager.