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Cash Accounts, June 1768

Cash Accounts

[June 1768]

Cash
June 1— To Ditto [cash] of Henry Taylor £ 0. 2.6
To Weaving of Jno. Elliot 15 yds cotton birdeye1 0.18.9
To Cash of Mr Wm Triplet for Weavg 1. 6.0
20— To Ditto of Gilbt Simpson on Acct of Rent 2. 8.0
23— To Ditto for 7 M Shingles 6. 2.6
Contra
June 2— By Mr [John] Stedlar for Mastr & Miss Custis 10.16.0
6— By James Oram for a Horse for Mastr Custis2 15. 0.0
7— By a Sturgeon 6/—By Lemons 8/9 0.14.9
15— By Rachel McKeaver3 0. 6.0
17— By Charity 12/ 0.12.0
By Jno. Snowden £7.7.6.4 By Charity 21/6 8. 9.0
20— By Mr [James] Kirk Balle of Acct 2. 5.0
24— By Exps. at Arrols 20/9. Jno. P. Custis 41/6 3. 2.3
By Sundry’s for the use of Mr Custis 2.13.9

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 274.

1. John Elliott lived in Fairfax Parish.

2. James Oram lived in Fairfax County. GW recorded in his Guardian Accounts having bought “a Portmanteau horse” from James Oram, of Fairfax County, for his ward’s “use” (ViLxW).

3. Rachel McKeaver (McIver) was in GW’s employ for ten months beginning in November 1767, perhaps as a replacement for Sarah Harle who left his employment at the end of May 1767. Both women seem to have worked in the house at Mount Vernon, probably as housekeepers. See Cash Accounts, February 1769. n.4. Rachel McKeaver may be the woman of that name who was living near the Cacapon River in Hampshire County in October 1767. It also is possible she was the “Widow McKeaver,” who was given ten shillings by GW in April 1756, a few days after her husband Darby McKeaver was killed by Indians (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 29, and GW to Henry Harrison, 26 April 1756).

4. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 94, which gives the amount as £7.7.3.

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    Washington, George
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    “Cash Accounts, June 1768,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0067. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 8, 24 June 1767 – 25 December 1771, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 91.]