Enclosure: Account with Fielding Lewis, 20 April 1773

Enclosure

Account with Fielding Lewis

[20 April 1773]

A List of Sundrie Sums expected to be recd, & pd, by Colo. F. Lewis1

	Sterling	Currency
From Messrs Buckners		£616.13.0
Trustees of Colo. B: Moore or Exrs of Colo. Baylor	£401.11.0
Mr Armisteads Estate	108. 8.9
Treasury		12. 2.6
Colo. Bannister		32.10.
Mr Montgomerie		32. 1.7
Colo. Warnr Lewis		40.
Mr Norton for Mr Thruston		12. 1.9
Mr John Fry		31. 0.4
Mr Hill suppose2		100.
	£509.19.9	£876. 9.2

Note—The Sum paid by Mr Montgomerie, be it little, or much, will go in discharge of my Claim upon Armisteads Estate and of course lessen the above Balle of £108.8.9 Sterlg.

Sterlg

Curry

To be paid to Mr Ths Hodge

£ 35. 0.0

Mr Robt Washington’s ordr

60.

Captn Page if demd

£14.14.0

£ 95. 0.0

To Wm Crawfords order in favr of Jno. Hite I beleive to Ths Lawson

50.3

Brot up	£509.19.9	£ 876. 9. 2
Captn Kenn[ed]y4		150
Thos Logan5		52.15. 8




	£509.19.9	£1079. 4.10

£14.14.0

145. 0.0

Wren6

40.

Dr Ross

44.

Dr Johnn

30.

Mr B.

75.

Church

30.

Colvill

550.

£14.14

£914.

Note, If Colo. Lewis’s Collections would not pay the within Sums of £35, 60 & £50 Cury & £14.14 Sterg, & enable him to remit me, over and above the further sum of £300 he is in that case to raise the Difficiency by a Sale of Bills for wch purpose three Sets were sent to wit one of £100—one of £80—& one of £60 Sterlg all drawn upon Robt Cary Esqr. & Co. at 60 days sight the 20th of Apl 1773.

AD, NN: Myers Collection; AD, NjMoHP. The copy of the document printed here is probably GW’s retained copy. It contains a note by Jared Sparks attesting to GW’s handwriting. The copy at NjMoHP varies somewhat in wording and is missing the last part of the memorandum.

1. Most of the entries in this account are explained in the notes of GW to Lewis, this date.

2. In his May Cash Accounts GW records receiving from James Hill £132.15.4.

3. The information following this is included in the NjMoHP copy.

4. David Kennedy paid through George Johnston on 23 June £104.8.3 as part of what he owed in back rents for the land that he leased in Frederick County (General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 22; Cash Accounts, June 1773). See also GW to Samuel Washington, 6 Dec. 1771, n.5.

5. Thomas Logan of Alexandria gave GW £29.7.6 on 28 April in partial payment of the £52.15.8 that he owed for flour, and on 10 July he settled the account (General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 57). See also Cash Accounts, April 1773.

6. On 29 June 1773 GW paid James Wren £39.19.2, the balance he owed on the purchase of 118¾ acres from Valinda Wade in 1770 before her marriage to Wren (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 244; General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 20). See also George William Fairfax to GW, 12 Mar. 1770, n.1, Deed from Valinda Wade, 18 Dec. 1770, and note, and Cash Accounts, March 1771, n.13.

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Title: Enclosure: Account with Fielding Lewis, 20 April 1773
Author: Washington, George
Date: 20 April 1773

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Cite as: “Enclosure: Account with Fielding Lewis, 20 April 1773,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-09-02-0166-0002. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 9, 8 January 1772 – 18 March 1774, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 225–226.]