George Washington Papers

Cash Accounts, November 1760

Cash Accounts

[November 1760]

Cash
Novr 4— To Mr Wm Hunter for a horse sold him1 £ 35. 0.0
To The Speaker on Acct of Colo. Thos Moores Bond2 500. 0.0
5— To Interest of Francis Fosters Bond3 25. 0.0
To Doctr Craik Shoeing his Horse 0. 4.0
Contra
Nr 3— By Tea 1/.  By Subscripn Wmsburg Purse 20/ 1. 1.0
By Do for Colo. Fairfax 10/. Weatherbornes Acct 16/9½ 1. 6.9 1/2
5— By Barbers Acct £1.13.  paid for Toys 4/1½ 1.17.1 1/2
7— By Expens. at Danzies 14/9. Do at Todds 27/6 Hub[bar]ds—9/6 2.11.9
10— By Ditto at Julians 45/7½.  By a Launcit 1/. 2. 6.7 1/2
By Mr Chs Yates’s Acct £13.11.2½4—By H. Wallaces 6/5 13.17.2 1/2
By Ferriages & Ferry[ma]n 11/3.  By my Mothr £15—Gave Servts 1/ 15.12.3
11— By Exps. at Dumfries 20/.  paid for Books for J.C. & M:C. 5/6 1. 5.0
By Exps. at Colchester 2/6.  By Gilbert Simpson’s Acct 23.10.0
By Doctr Hunters Acct 58/ 2.18.0
23d— By Cash paid for 10 Bushels of Oysters 0.10.0
By Mrs Washington to buy Turkeys 40/.
By Do for Expences 33/6 3.13.6

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 108, 112.

1. This was probably William Hunter (d. 1761) in Williamsburg, the printer of the Virginia Gazette.

2. See Settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, 20 April 1759–5 Nov. 1761, doc. III-B, n.28; Capel & Osgood Hanbury to GW, 4 April 1760; John Robinson to GW, 8 June 1760; and Thomas Moore to GW, 9 June 1760.

3. See Settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, 20 April 1759–5 Nov. 1761, doc. III-B, n.20.

4. Charles Yates, who came to Virginia from England in 1752, was a Fredericksburg merchant.

5. H. Wallace may be Humphrey Wallace (Wallis) who in 1753 became an ensign in an “Independent Company of Foot, composed of the Gentlemen Inhabitants of the Town of Fredericksburg” (Crozier, Spotsylvania County description begins William Armstrong Crozier, ed. Spotsylvania County, 1721–1800: Being Transcriptions, from the Original Files at the County Court House, of Wills, Deeds, Administrators’ and Guardians’ Bonds, Marriage Licenses, and Lists of Revolutionary Pensioners. New York, 1905. description ends , 516).

6. J.C. & M:C. are the initials of Jacky and Patsy (Martha) Custis.

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    “Cash Accounts, November 1760,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-06-02-0272. [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. 474–475.]