George Washington Papers

IV-C. Martha Parke Custis’s Estate Account, c.November 1761

IV-C

Martha Parke Custis’s Estate Account, 1759–61

[c.November 1761]

Miss Martha Parke Custis

Dr
[Current] [Sterling]
1760
To Sundrys for her own use Vizt. Shipped by the Capt. El⟨zey⟩ £30.6 paid the mantuamaker 23/ ⟨illegible⟩ Cambrick 5/ Toys 3/ ⟨illegible⟩ 3 prs of Stocking 4/6 Callico for a G⟨own illegible⟩ yds ⟨illegible⟩ bag holland 10/ 4 yds Irish Linnen 36/ ⟨illegible⟩ making a pair of Silk Do 3/9 ⟨illegible⟩ £ 7. 4.11 & 30. 6. 
1761
To Ditto vizt knitting a pr of Silk Stockings 4/. School Books 7/8 .11. 8
To Law Charges for one half of £5 and ⟨one [sixth] of⟩ £187.9 paid Mr Mercer by Acct1 33.14.10
April
To Balle now due exclusive of the third of 51 hhds Tobo ⟨e⟩ Contra wch Colo. Washington agrees to Assign Bonds and £1650 Bank Stock2 for  7880.17. 8 5/12 &  2228. 5.8     
£7922. 9. 1 5/12 £2258.11.8
Contra Cr.
1759 Octr
By Balle of your Acct ⟨then settled⟩ and approvd of by the General Court £7426.17.11 & £1599. 8.3 1/2
1761 Apl
By one third of the Balle ⟨illegible⟩ settled 92. 6. 9 5/12 & 563. 4.  11/12
By interest Settled to ⟨illegible⟩ Sterlg at 5 & 4 prCt 403. 4. 5 95.19.3 7/12
By one third of 51 hhds ⟨illegible⟩
£7922. 9. 1 5/12 &  2258.11.83    

AD, ViLxW: Washington’s Account Book. See source line notes in docs. IV, IV-A, and IV-B.

1. See doc. IV-B, n.4. The other one-sixth of the total was undoubtedly charged to the dower account, which is missing.

2. In his Guardian Account for Martha Parke Custis in 1762 (see Appointment as Guardian, 21 Oct. 1761) GW lists the bank stock and bonds assigned to Martha Parke Custis, effective April 1761, in the settlement of the estate on 5 Nov. 1761: bank of England stock, £1,650 sterling; Bartholomew Dandridge’s bond for £600 sterling; and bonds in current money of John Mercer £1,100, Burwell Bassett £2,100, Bernard Moore £1,400, Thomas Moore £1,400, William Dandridge £440.9, Philip Claiborne £280, Joanna McKenzie £216, and Thomas Dansie £100. For these loans, see the general estate account 1759 (doc. III-B) and notes. The remainder of the bonds, or loans, were assigned to Martha Washington.

3. For the balances credited to Martha Parke Custis’s account in October 1759 and April 1761, see docs. III-C–3 and IV-C.

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    “IV-C. Martha Parke Custis’s Estate Account, c.November 1761,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-06-02-0164-0021. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 6, 4 September 1758 – 26 December 1760, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, pp. 275–276.]