Cash Accounts, September 1766
Cash Accounts
[September 1766]
Cash | ||
Septr 11— | To Ditto [cash] of Jeremiah Wood by Colo. Martin | £2. 3. 01 |
Contra | ||
Septr 6— | By Sarah Harle | 0. 2. 6 |
14— | By Thomas Bishop | 4. 0. 0 |
16— | By Edwd William’s Balle Accts | 0.15.10 |
18— | By Robt Haims Combing 4 lbs. Wool | 0. 6. 0 |
By Ditto Do Spinng 3 lb. Worsted | 0. 9. 0 | |
21— | By Jno. Cannon for J. P. Custis2 | 3.15. 0 |
AD, 234.
, folio1. This may be payment to GW for his 1750 survey of 292 acres of land for Jeremiah Wood in Frederick County. Wood was not granted the land until 19 June 1766, and £2.3 Virginia currency was GW’s usual fee for a survey of under 1,000 acres ( , 1:14, 16, 26). Thomas Bryan Martin was Lord Fairfax’s land agent.
2. GW charges John Parke Custis’s account £3.15 “To John Cannon—Sadlers—Do [Account]” (Guardian Accounts, 11 April 1767).