1. Two receipts of 25 April 1760 signed by GW in Williamsburg undoubtedly accounted for a part of this sum: £127.12.6 from Capt. Joshua Morton “towards the discharge of his Bond” (NN: Washington Collection) and £10.16 from Joanna McKenzie, “Being a Years Intt on her Bond due 23 May next” (owned [1985] by Mr. Thomas Budnik, Alexandria, Va.).

2. There is the following entry, dated 1 Dec. 1759, in GW’s account with Lewis Burwell Martin: “To a large bay horse sold you at Colo. Bassetts—money to be paid in April Court next—[£]32.10” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 68).

3. At the end of the record of his pay as colonel of the Virginia Regiment, from June 1757 to January 1759, in his account with the paymaster Alexander Boyd, GW made this notation: “This Acct I settled with Mr Boyd in Jany 1759 & Recd the Balle due to [me] Mar. 1760” (ibid., 46).

4. Burgesses received 10s. a day for travel to and from Williamsburg to attend sessions of the assembly as well as for the days they were in attendance (4 Hening description begins William Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. 13 vols. 1819–23. Reprint. Charlottesville, Va., 1969. description ends 278–80; 7 Hening description begins William Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. 13 vols. 1819–23. Reprint. Charlottesville, Va., 1969. description ends , 322–23, 342–43). GW had attended two sessions of the assembly: the February 1759 session and the November 1759 session.

5. Davy was one of Albraham (Abram) Barnes’s slaves. GW’s slave Boson ran away on 14 April. GW had recently considered trying to buy land from Barnes in the part of Fairfax County known as Sugar Lands (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:269, 234).

6. GW wrote in his diary on 19 April: “Crossd at Mr. Possey’s Ferry and began my journey to Williamsburg about 9 Oclock. Abt. 11 I broke my Chair and had to Walk to Port Tobo. [Md.] where I was detaind the whole day getting my Chair mended” (ibid., 269–70).

7. If GW crossed at the lower of the two Cedar Points in Maryland, he must have used Hooe’s ferry to cross the Potomac.

8. Samuel Washington lived at his plantation on the Virginia side of the Potomac in the Chotank area of Stafford County (later King George County). GW crossed the Rappahannock on Southern’s (Southings) ferry below Leedstown.

9. Williams ferry crossed the Pamunkey into New Kent County from King William County in the vicinity of the Custis plantation Claiborne’s.

10. This may have been Col. Peter Randolph of Chatsworth, Charles City County. He was a neighbor of William Byrd III whose Valiant, “a noted running horse,” raced in the colony as early as 1757 and at this time was covering mares in Virginia (Harrison, Turf Stocks description begins Fairfax Harrison. Early American Turf-Stock, 1730–1830. 2 vols. Richmond, Va., 1934–35. description ends , 2:73–74).

11. Aitcheson & Parker was a mercantile firm in Norfolk. GW paid William Aitcheson in Williamsburg on 28 April “By my Note of hand assignd by Sampn Darrell—[£]90” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 96). This was part of a note GW gave Darrell for the land he bought from him in December 1757. See George Johnston to GW, 8 Jan. 1760, n.2.

12. Mrs. Webb may be Anne Bickerton Webb, widow of George Webb (d. 1758) of St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent County. Henry Wetherburn (d. 1760) ran a tavern on the Duke of Gloucester Street near the capitol in Williamsburg. GW left town on Monday afternoon, 28 April.