1. For the bonds of indebtedness of the eight people listed here, see doc. III-B, and notes, in Settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, 20 April 1759–5 Nov. 1761.

2. Joseph Valentine (d. 1771) was the manager of the Custis plantations, including GW’s dower plantations.

3. For Henry Churchill’s protested bill of exchange, see GW to Robert Cary & Co., 10 Aug. 1760 and 3 April 1761.

4. GW’s account with the Rev. Charles Green shows Green owing £2.0.10 and 11s. 7½d. for the work of GW’s smith and £1.6 for “52 lb. nett Butter from Valentine Crawford @6d.” GW credits Green with £2 for taking up one of his “Runaway Negroes” and £4 that Green paid in cash (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 118).

5. GW made these surveys in Frederick County for James Steward (Stewart, Stuart) and David Edwards in 1750 and 1751 (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 , 1:20, 30, 31, 37).

6. GW seems to have paid the expenses of his two brothers to come up from Stafford and Westmoreland counties to vote for him and George Mercer in the burgess election in Winchester on 18 May 1761.

7. The October 1760 session of the assembly met from 6 to 20 Oct., and the April 1761 session met from 5 Mar. to 10 April 1761. For the meetings of the House of Burgesses that he attended, GW usually drew from the treasurer ten shillings a day from the day the House convened until its adjournment, ten shillings for twelve “Travelling days,” and charges for ferries (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 122). GW does not enter in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends the totals for his pay in the October 1760 and March 1761 sessions, but he notes, “Settled the Contra Acct with the Treasr this 8th day of Novr 1761 and receivd what money was due to me on Acct of Burgesses Wages ’till this present Session of Assembly.” On 21 Mar. 1761 GW was added to the standing committee of Propositions and Grievances in the House of Burgesses, and in the same session he managed the passage of two bills, one to bar hogs from running loose in Winchester so as to protect the water supply and another to establish the town of Woodstock. See JHB, 1758–1761 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 , 223, 225, 227, 228, 233, 240, 241, 248, and 253; and 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 406–7, 411–12.

8. A “Capt. Loxham & family” were in Lancaster County on 1 Feb. 1761 (“Journal of Col. James Gordon” in WMQ, 1st ser., 11 [1902–3], 218). GW and his family may have gone into mourning for Ann Fairfax Lee, who earlier had been the wife of Lawrence Washington and who died in January 1761.

9. Weepers were white strips of cloth worn on a man’s cuff or white cuffs worn by women for mourning.

10. John Baynes (born c.1726) had a store at Piscataway, Prince George’s County, Maryland.

11. John Marshall was captain of the Virginian. See George Bowdon to GW, 24 Mar. 1761, n.1.

12. John Muir (c.1731–1791) was a Scottish merchant in Alexandria.

13. This may be Edward Barrett of Fairfax County. See Cash Accounts, 1762, n.1.

14. See note 20.

15. Hector Ross was a merchant in Colchester, Fairfax County. See Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:263. GW received £16.18.3 for “530 feet of Inch and Quarter Plank—delivd at your own Landing and Sundrys” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 111).

16. John Carlyle (1720–1780) and William Ramsay (1716–1785), both Scots, were leading merchants in Alexandria. GW noted in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 109, that he paid Ramsay £35 “in Williamsburg” on his account with Carlyle & Dalton.

17. Anthony Walke (1692–1768) and his son Anthony Walke, Jr. (1726–1782), were merchants in Norfolk who imported rum and sugar from the West Indies. GW gave Jacob Alligood £21.8.9 to pay Walke for “56½ Gallns Spirits” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 118). See note 18.

18. James Alligood (Allegood) was agent for Aitchison (Aitcheson) & Parker of Norfolk. He may be the same man that GW calls “Jacob” in note 17.

19. In his account with Dr. James Craik, GW indicates that he bought “a Government Bill of Excha[nge]” of £140 for Craik on 6 April 1761 to pay him £48.11.10, leaving Craik with the £92 balance in “Cash” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 121).

20. In his account with Dr. James Laurie, GW shows himself owing Laurie £15 for “Attendance on all my People in this County . . . at the rate of £15 pr Ann.” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 93).

21. This was probably Dr. John Hamilton (c.1696–1768) of Annapolis and Calvert County, Md., and brother of Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1712–1756) of Maryland.

22. Peter Hay (d. 1766) practiced medicine in York County. GW was in Williamsburg at this time attending the assembly as a burgess from Frederick County and became ill. See GW to Peter Stover, 9 Nov. 1761, and GW to Andrew Burnaby, 27 July 1761, n.7.

23. This may have been the professor of natural philosophy in the College of William and Mary, Dr. William Small.

24. The tavern of Mercy Chew (d. 1775) and her husband Joseph Chew was in Alexandria. “Sundes” may be “Sund[ri]es.”

25. Jane Vobe (died c.1789) kept a tavern on Waller Street in Williamsburg.

26. GW often frequented Christiana Campbell’s tavern near the Capitol in Williamsburg.

27. Ann Mason’s tavern was in Alexandria.

28. Charles Julian and his wife kept a tavern in Fredericksburg.

29. William Trebell’s tavern was in Williamsburg. He also owned the Raleigh Tavern there from 1763 to 1767.

30. Henry Wetherburn kept taverns in Williamsburg from 1731 until his death in 1760.

31. GW often employed Bryan Allison (Bryant Alliston) as a tailor.

32. See GW to Robert Cary & Co., 3 April 1761. See also GW to Richard Washington and to Capel and Osgood Hanbury, both 14 July 1761.

33. Samuel Brasenton (Brazington) and his wife made leather clothing and goods for GW. See Cash Accounts, July 1759, n.4. GW recorded having received from Brasenton in February 1761 “3 pair Leather Breeches,” totaling £3.18, and a pair altered “for myself” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 81).

34. Robert Adam (1731–1789) of Alexandria owned, among other things, a tannery and flour mill. GW paid “last yr,” 16 Sept. 1760, £5.12.0 to Adam (Cash Accounts, September 1760).

35. General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 170, indicates that GW had John Prescot make “Negroe Shoes” for him in 1763, 1764, and 1765.

36. This may have been a descriptive appellation rather than an actual name. A German named Christian Küfer was running an inn in the area at mid-century.

37. Henry Heth kept an ordinary in Winchester. He provided drinks for GW to entertain freeholders in the election of 1758 when GW first won his seat in the House of Burgesses. See GW’s account with Heth, 24–26 July 1758, printed as an enclosure in Charles Smith to GW, 26 July 1758.

38. Philip Bush (c.1733–1812) was a merchant in Winchester who had an ordinary in the town.

39. Edward Snickers ran an ordinary near Buck Marsh Run in Frederick County.

40. Leesburg was the county seat of Loudoun County, created in 1757.

41. Richard Coleman’s ordinary was on Leesburg Pike at Sugar Land Run.

42. “Colo. Hytes” was probably Jacob Hite. See Robert Stewart to GW, 12 Mar. 1761 (first letter), n.4.

43. New Town (or Stephensburg), now called Stephens City, in Frederick County, was 7 miles south of Winchester.

44. This may be Henry Moore, who voted for GW in both the 1758 and 1761 elections in Frederick County. GW added “Gentn” after his name in his own alphabetical copy of the 24 July 1758 poll (DLC:GW).

45. Cunningham may be Robert Cunningham of Frederick County who voted for GW in both House of Burgesses elections. He had land south of Mill Creek a few miles north of Winchester.

46. James Magill’s (McGill’s) tavern was on the road to Fort Cumberland from Winchester in Frederick County. See GW to Van Swearingen, 15 May 1761, n.3.

47. A Thomas Wood was a constable in Winchester in 1757. See GW to Dinwiddie, 9 Oct. 1757.

48. William West’s ordinary was on the Carolina road in Loudoun County.

49. John Hollis (d. 1768) ran an ordinary in Fairfax County near the Loudoun County line.

50. GW, who with George Mercer was elected on 16 May to represent Frederick County in the House of Burgesses, noted on 19 May that Mercer spent £38.19.7 of £50 “Cash log’d with him to defray the Exps. of my Electn in Fredk Cty” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 40).

51. Upper Marlboro, Md., was a town on the Patuxent River in Prince George’s County, only a few hours’ travel from Mount Vernon.

52. GW left on about 22 Aug. to seek a cure for his illness at Warm Springs and remained there until after the middle of September. See GW to Andrew Burnaby, 27 July 1761, and GW to Charles Green, 26[–30] Aug. 1761.

53. GW attended the session of the assembly that began on 2 Nov. and lasted through 14 November.

54. Philip Grymes (1721–c.1762), deputy auditor general in Virginia, was from Middlesex County.

55. GW wrote “Jno. GonJno.,” which may be a false start that he failed to correct.

56. Daniel French and William Gardner were both planters in Fairfax County. On French’s instructions, GW paid Gardner for the 3,165 pounds of pork supplied by French (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 118).

57. See Edward Violet’s agreement, 5 Aug. 1762, to become GW’s overseer of Bullskin plantation.

58. The nineteen barrels of corn were John Foster’s share of what he raised in 1761 on the Dogue Run farm at Mount Vernon where Foster was GW’s overseer.

59. No such entry appears in GW’s account with his brother John Augustine Washington (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 97, 123).

60. GW sent by John Augustine Washington his annual payment to George Lee for “the use of Mt Vernon Tract & Slaves” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 47). For GW’s rental of Mount Vernon, see Lease of Mount Vernon, 17 Dec. 1754.

61. Edward Williams and Gilbert Simpson were GW’s tenants on the Clifton’s Neck land that GW bought in 1760. See GW to Benjamin Waller, 2 April 1760, n.1.

62. Henry Taylor was one of GW’s tenants at Mount Vernon.

63. Thomas Lawson managed John Tayloe’s ironworks on Neabsco Creek in Prince William County.

64. In his account with his neighbor John Posey, GW’s entry of 27 Mar. 1761 shows Posey owing him £5 for “Cash lent you in Williamsburg” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 92).

65. GW lent his neighbor Humphrey Peake (1733–1785) £10.

66. GW bought a tract of 135 acres on the west side of Dogue Run at Mount Vernon from John, not William, Ashford on 29–30 Jan. 1761 for £150. See Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:293, and Cash Accounts, 1762, n.43.

67. Thomson Mason (1733–1785) in 1760 competed with GW for the purchase of William Clifton’s land on Clifton’s Neck. See GW to Benjamin Waller, 2 April 1760

68. The law required the purchaser to pay the tax on imported slaves (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 317–22; 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 69–87).

69. On 4 June 1761 GW paid his brother-in-law Fielding Lewis “at the Fair Fredg” £40 for “two Lotts in Fredericksburg” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 8). The two lots GW bought from Lewis were supposed to be lots 107 and 108 on present Lewis Street between Charles and Prince Edward streets. GW must have been given instead, by mistake, titles to lots 111 and 113 on Charles Street between Fauquier and Hawke streets. The lots on Lewis Street were then, in October 1761, conveyed to Michael Robinson. In 1772 GW paid Robinson £275 in order to get titles to the two lots on Lewis Street. Finally in 1795 Fielding Lewis’s heir, John Lewis, sorted out the four lots and reconveyed them to the rightful purchasers. For further information on these transactions, see Felder, Forgotten Companions description begins Paula S. Felder. Forgotten Companions: The First Settlers of Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburgh Town. Fredericksburg, Va., 1982. description ends , 138–39, and the following Spotsylvania County deeds: Fielding Lewis to GW, 1–2 June 1761, Deed Book E (1751–61), 866–70; Fielding Lewis to Michael Robinson, 13 Oct. 1761, Deed Book F (1761–66), 112–13; Fielding and Betty Lewis to James Mercer, 4 Sept. 1769, GW and Martha Washington to James Mercer, 13 Oct. 1769, Deed Book G (1766–71), 293–95, 316–17; Michael Robinson to GW, 18 Sept. 1772, Deed Book H (1771–74), 224–25; John and Mary Ann Lewis to Richard Dobson, 3 Feb. 1794, Deed Book O (1794–97), 51–52, all in ViSpoCh. In addition, a deed from John Lewis to James Mercer, 3 Nov. 1786, is in the records of the circuit court of Fredericksburg. The 1794 deed contains a lengthy reprise of the errors in the various deeds and sets out the expedients required to right the errors.

70. For several years GW hired John McLaughlan (McClockland) to do weaving.

71. John West, Jr. (d. 1777), was sheriff of Fairfax County in 1761.

72. John Alton became GW’s body servant in the Braddock campaign in 1755 and remained in GW’s employ until his death in 1785.

73. GW made Christopher Hardwick the resident overseer of his Bullskin plantation in 1756. GW notes on 6 June 1761 having sent Hardwick £40 by James Stephenson and on 28 Oct. 1761 having sent £19.3, twelve pounds of which was “to buy a Waggon horse” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 91).

74. John Spotswood of Spotsylvania left a large estate at his death in 1758. In his account with the executors of the Spotswood estate, GW records having paid £123 for “Sundrys bought at the Sale—& for wch I passd my Bond—payable to his Exrs.” In the same account, under the date of 10 April 1761, he enters on the other side of the ledger £123 as “Cash paid Colo. Bern[ar]d Moore pr Rect—the Bond not being deliverd up” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 88).

75. In his account with Turner Crump in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 121, GW shows Crump entitled to 3s. 6d. for “bringing my Negroes up” and £30 for “your hire for looking after my Carpenters one year ending Decr 1. 1761.” Crump continued as overseer of GW’s carpenters through 1764.

76. Thomas Bishop recently had returned to GW’s employ. See George Mercer to GW, 17 Feb. 1760, n.5, and General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 124.

77. Benjamin Waller (1710–1786), clerk of the General Court, was a lawyer in Williamsburg.

78. Mary Sheridine rented a farm on Clifton’s Neck in 1760 when GW acquired it. She paid him 730 pounds of tobacco for the year’s rental. GW bought from her in December 1760, among other things, “One Cow and Calf & two Heifers,” “2 Sows and thirteen Pigs,” and “10 Barrls of Corn,” at a total cost of £13.14.3, which, on her order, he paid to his overseer of Creek farm, Josias Cook (Cooke). See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 114.

79. This may be Thomas Brownley (Bromley, Brumley) of Fairfax County.

80. This is Richard Stephenson of Frederick County.

81. In his account with his brother John Augustine Washington, GW indicates he paid Mrs. McKenzie this amount “for making Caps” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 123).

82. See Cash Accounts, 1762, note 1. The daughters, Valinda, Sarah, and Eleanor, bought cloth from GW’s weavers in 1767. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 260.

83. Peyton Randolph (c.1721–1775) was the attorney general.

84. Michael Gratter (Greter) was a butcher in Alexandria who in May 1759 received a license to operate an ordinary in the town and on 19 May 1762 was presented for selling liquor without a license.

85. “W.” may stand for Williamsburg.

86. The following advertisement was run in the Maryland Gazette (Annapolis), 23 April 1761: “TO BE RUN FOR, On Thursday the 28th Day of May, on the usual Race Ground at Alexandria, A PURSE of FIFTY POUNDS, Three Times round the Ground (being near three Miles) the best in Three Heats, by any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, 14 Hands to carry 10 Stone, below that Measure, Weight for Inches.

“And, on the Day following, will be Run for, on the same Ground and Distance, A PURSE of TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS, by Four Year old Colts, 14 Hands to carry 9 Stone, below that Measure, Weight for Inches.

“The Horses to be Entered on the Monday before the Race with the Managers, Mr. George Washington, Mr. John Carlyle, and Mr. Charles Digges: Each Horse to pay Fifty Shillings Entrance on the First Day, and Twenty-five Shillings the Second Day; and those who do not enter their Horses on the Monday aforesaid, to pay double Entrance.

“Three Horses to Start or no Race.

“All Differences that may arise, will be decided by the Managers.”

87. This may be Alexander Boyd, the paymaster of the Virginia Regiment.

88. The slave assigned to be young John Parke Custis’s personal servant was named Julius (Appendix C, in Settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, 20 April 1759–5 Nov. 1761).

89. Capt. Robert Merrie.

90. GW received this sum from Treasurer John Robinson after the assembly ended its session on 10 April 1761 to convey to John Posey, Edward Snickers, Philip Babb, and Gabriel Jones, which he indicates here that he has done.

91. Philip Babb (1731–1762) was a planter in Frederick County.

92. On 28 Mar. 1761 the House of Burgesses voted Gabriel Jones, a lawyer who practiced in Virginia’s frontier counties, £25 as one of the commissioners “for settling the Militia and Indian Accounts” (JHB, 1758–1761 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 , 237). Jones was a burgess from Hampshire County, but he may not have attended the session of spring 1761. It may be only coincidental that the amount GW conveyed to Jones to dispense to the four frontiersmen named here was only slightly less than the £25 that Jones was to receive from the treasury.