George Washington Papers

Cash Accounts, September 1769

Cash Accounts

[September 1769]

Cash
Septr 17— To Cash of Lund Washington on Acct of 3 Hhds Tobo sold Mr Ross £36. 1.9
 
To Cash won at Cards 0. 8.9
20— To Ditto of Wm Brummit for Weaving 0. 8.01
Contra
Septr 14— By Barber 0. 2.6
19— By Vale Crawford 5.11.6
By Exps. at Alexandria 0. 4.6
20— By Jonathan Palmer Cash lent 5. 0.0
27— By Mr Stedlar teachg Jno. P. Custis 8 Months Musick 8.12.0
By Ditto teaching Miss Custis 10 Months Do 10.15.0
By Butter at Fredericksburg2 viz. 167 lbs. @ 7 1/2 5. 4.4 1/2

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 296.

1. GW’s 1767–72 Weaving Account (DLC:GW) shows William Brummitt (Brumit; b. 1713) receiving 8 yards of fustian for the price of 8s. 9d. Brummitt lived on the east bank of Dogue Run just above Mount Vernon.

2. GW’s diary indicates that he was most recently in Fredericksburg on 1 May.

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    Cash Accounts, September 1769
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    Washington, George
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    September 1769

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    “Cash Accounts, September 1769,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0166. [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, pp. 243–244.]