Memorandum List of Quitrents, 1769
Memorandum List of Quitrents
[1769]
A List of Lands belonging to George Washington in the Northern Neck on wch Quitrents became due Michaelmas 1769.1
| In Fairfax County | Mt Vernon | 2126 Acres | |
| Bot of | Darrell | 500 | |
| Clifton | 1806 | ||
| Brent | 238 | ||
| Wm Ashford | 135 | ||
| Geo: Ashford | 135 | ||
| S. Pearson | 178 | ||
| Wm Whiting | 200 | ||
| 5318 | |||
| Frederick Cty Taken up | 760 | ||
| Ditto | 453 | ||
| Ditto | 1832 | ||
| Bot of McCraken | 550 | ||
| Johnston | 552 | ||
| 2498 | |||
| King George Cty | 1250 | ||
| Hampshire Do | 240 | ||
| Loudoun Do | 275 | ||
| Loudoun & Fauquier—bot of Carter | 2682 | ||
| 12263 @ 2/6 £15.6.7 | |||
August 21st 1770 Then Receivd from George Washington the above Sum of Fifteen pounds Six Shillings and Seven pence in full for the Quitrents of the above Quantity of Twelve thousand two hundd & Sixty three acres of Land to Michaelmas one thousand Seven hundd and Sixty nine.
John Hough
ALB, DLC:GW. See source note, Memorandum, 1758–59.
1. This is the first of GW’s yearly list of quitrents to be printed in its entirety in the Papers since that of 1764. Those not printed are in CD-ROM:GW. The only difference of any consequence between this list and the 1764 list is the addition of the 2,682 acres in Loudoun and Fauquier counties, land that GW bought in November 1767 when George Carter’s estate was finally being settled. See Cash Accounts, November 1767, n.26.
2. For GW’s acquisition of this 183-acre tract, see GW to Samuel Washington, 6 Dec. 1771, n.8.