1. Charles Craig (Craik) rented a quarter at Mount Vernon from 1756 until his death in February 1760.

2. Philip Whitehead Claiborne was a planter in King William County. The next entry (£14.5.9) is the interest payment that he made on a loan of £200 sterling from Martha Custis. See document III-B, n.25, in Settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, 20 April 1759–5 Nov. 1761.

3. GW lent £10 to John Campbell in March 1759 (Cash Accounts).

4. GW left Williamsburg on 2 April or shortly thereafter and traveled with Mrs. Washington and, presumably, her children Martha Parke (Patsy) Custis (b. 1756) and John Parke (Jacky) Custis (b. 1754) to Mount Vernon, arriving there no later than 7 April. See GW to John Alton, 5 April 1759.

5. GW should have written Peter Greenlaw instead of Peter Greenway. See Cash Accounts, September 1759, n.3.

6. In his account with John Patterson for the work done on the mansion house at Mount Vernon in 1758, GW recorded on 12 April that he “pd you myself at Mount Vernon—[£]40” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 49).

7. GW paid Alton the money on this date at Mount Vernon (ibid., 12).

8. Richard Stephens was overseer of the Muddy Hole farm at Mount Vernon in 1759 and 1760. The £12 was given him “to pay Sundries” (ibid., 53).

9. The ferry across Occoquan Creek was about ten miles south of Mount Vernon and about halfway to Dumfries on Quantico Creek. Dumfries in turn was about halfway to Fredericksburg near which GW’s mother lived at Ferry Farm.

10. Layton’s ferry was on the Rappahannock River about twenty miles below Fredericksburg; Coleman’s tavern was at Caroline Court House, just off the main road and halfway between Fredericksburg and Todd’s Bridge. The tavern was owned by Francis Coleman (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 2:203), and the ferry was at Thomas Claiborne’s landing on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County. “Exps.” appears to be the abbreviation GW uses for expenses.

11. Thomas Doncastle’s tavern in James City County was on the road from Claiborne’s ferry about fifteen miles from Williamsburg. GW inserted above “Chanes” his symbol for a misspelled word; he has paid £2 for a chance on a raffle.

12. In his account with Col. George Lee, GW records having “paid you in Ditto [Williamsburg]” on 20 April £96 and, on 25 April, having given “to your Order in favour of Ralph Wormely Esqr.” £78.17.6. The total paid Lee recorded here as £175 (actually £174.17.6) was for “the use of Mt Vernon Tract & Slaves” for the years 1757 and 1758 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 47). GW’s Lease of Mount Vernon is in Papers, Colonial Series description begins W. W. Abbot et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series. 10 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1983–95. description ends , 1:232–35. George Lee of Westmoreland County was the husband of Lawrence Washington’s widow (née Ann Fairfax). Ralph Wormely, a wealthy planter living at Rosegill on the Rappahannock, was at this time a burgess for Middlesex County.

13. Carter Braxton was in England where he had gone after the death in December 1757 of his wife Judith Robinson Braxton of Middlesex County. After his return from England in 1760, Braxton like Claiborne lived in King William County. Perhaps GW bought for his bride a chair, or light chaise, that had belonged to Mrs. Braxton.

14. At this time Anthony Hay had a cabinet shop in Williamsburg, and in 1767 he bought the Raleigh Tavern from William Trebell. Samuel Galt was a watchmaker in Williamsburg.

15. Will is probably the carpenter named Will who appears on GW’s List of Tithables, c.May 1760.

16. GW paid Mrs. Frances Thornton a total of £60 for the “hire” of her carpenter James from 15 Feb. 1756 until February 1758. Then on 23 April 1759 he closed out her account with “Cash pd my Brother Chs in Wmsburg in full,” £19.3 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 49). Mrs. Thornton, the widow of Col. Francis Thornton of Spotsylvania County, was Charles Washington’s mother-in-law.

17. William Trebell may have been operating a public house in Williamsburg as early as this. He bought the Raleigh Tavern in May 1763.