1. This perhaps should be not Robert Brent but George Brent for whom GW drew a bill of exchange of £200 sterling (GW to Robert Cary & Co., 8 Oct. 1760). GW paid Brent £194.4.4 sterling on 24 Sept. 1760 for a tract of land in Clifton’s Neck. See GW to Robert Cary & Co., 10 Aug. 1760, n.16.

2. GW was in Williamsburg to attend the general assembly that sat from 6 to 20 October. On 8 Oct. the House of Burgesses ordered GW to present its address to Francis Fauquier asking the governor “to direct the Paymaster of the Virginia Regiment to pay” the amount due seven soldiers captured near Fort Duquesne in September 1758 and imprisoned in France for twenty-one months before being exchanged (JHB description begins H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15. description ends , 1758–1761, 188).

3. GW in his will dated 9 July 1799 included the bequest “to my Nephew William Augustine Washington” of “a lot which I purchased of John Hood, conveyed by William Willie and Samuel Gordon Trustees of the said John Hood, numbered 139 in the Town of Edinburgh, in the County of Prince George, State of Virginia” (Last Will and Testament, in Fitzpatrick, Writings description begins John C. Fitzpatrick, ed. The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799. 39 vols. Washington, D.C., 1931–44. description ends , 37:275–303). Edinburgh, a town only on paper, was supposed to be built south of the James River.

4. For references to Thomson Mason’s attempt to buy William Clifton’s land, see GW to Benjamin Waller, 2 April 1760, n.1. In his account with Attorney General Peyton Randolph (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 111), GW wrote this £5 chancery fee off with the notation: “This Suit never was prosecuted nor no return of the Contra Sum will I suppose ever be made—& therefore may as well be Ballanced.” This may have had to do with Thomson Mason’s threat to appeal the auction of Clifton’s land.

5. This was probably Benjamin Harrison (d. 1791), of Berkeley, burgess for Charles City County.

6. William Randolph and his wife, the daughter of Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley, lived at Wilton on the James River upstream from Berkeley. He was a burgess for Henrico County.