1. William Cheslyn’s ironmongery was at Whitechapel, London.

2. A rubber was a large coarse file or a whetstone.

3. Richard Cleeve’s pewtery was in Cornhill, London.

4. In 1765 William Maile is identified as an oil and “Colourman,” Barbican, London (Kent’s Directory, 1765 description begins Kent’s Directory. . . of the Directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark . . .. London, 1759–65. description ends ).

5. A rundlet, or roundlet, was a container.

6. This may have been the Joseph Garrard who in 1778 was a warehouseman, 30 Fore-Street, Aldermanbury, London.

7. Spermaceti candles are made from whale oil.

8. See Invoice to Robert Cary & Co., 1 May 1759, n.6, enclosed in Cary to GW, same date.

9. The vamp is the part of the shoe covering the toe and instep.

10. Butt here is thick leather.

11. George Maynard was a hosier on Fenchurch Street, London.

12. John Clarke was a bookseller “under the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange,” London (Kent’s Directory, 1759 description begins Kent’s Directory. . . of the Directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark . . .. London, 1759–65. description ends ).

13. Dr. Francis Home, The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation (Edinburgh, 1756, 1757). A second edition was printed in London in 1759, and a third edition, in Dublin, also in 1759.

14. A second edition of Edward Weston’s A New System of Agriculture; or, A Plain, Easy, and Demonstrative Method of speedily growing Rich was printed in London in 1755.

15. The second edition of Edward Lisle’s Observations in Husbandry was printed in London in 1757 by J. Hughs, G. C. Hitch, and L. Hawes. See Invoice to Robert Cary & Co., 1 May, and GW to Robert Cary & Co., 12 June 1759, nn.5 and 6, for further references to GW’s order of books on agriculture.

16. See Invoice, 1 May, n.4.

17. Ibid., n.5.

18. Ibid., n.8.

19. In 1763 Henry Bodker was identified as “Surgeon’s Instrument-maker, Poultry,” London (Kent’s Directory, 1763 description begins Kent’s Directory. . . of the Directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark . . .. London, 1759–65. description ends ).

20. Charles Smith was a glover, Cheapside, London. In MS, 21d. reads 21/.

21. Jane Backhouse has not been identified.

22. Ann Dennis shipped glass to GW several times during the 1760’s. By 1771 she was succeeded by Adam Dennis, glass cutter, at no. 13 Clement’s Lane, Lombard Street, London.

23. Philip Bell, a cabinetmaker and upholsterer, in 1767 was at no. 23 St. Paul’s Church-Yard, London. In filling GW’s order of 1 May for a tester bed, two bedside rugs, and two firescreens, matching curtains and coverlet for the bed, curtains for two windows, and covers for the seats of four chairs, Bell also provided the fittings for setting up the four-poster bed and for hanging the window curtains.

24. Furniture here refers to drapery or hangings.

25. Presumably this is tassles.

26. A Marlborough couch has straight legs.

27. Edward Neale & Co. were druggists on Lombard Street, London.

28. Charles Lawrence, a tailor on Old Fish Street, made clothes for GW for several years.

29. Leaver Legg was a woolen draper, Cornhill, London.

30. This was the cloth from which Charles Lawrence (note 28) made GW’s suit, at this time pompadour cloth was usually crimson, but “in grn” seems to indicate that this cloth was green.

31. Richard Farrer (Farrar) & Co. dealt in chinaware at 131 Fenchurch Street.

32. Two porcelain figures holding flower baskets, now at Mount Vernon, are believed to be the “Seasons” sent by Farrer (Detweiler, Washington’s Chinaware description begins Susan Gray Detweiler. George Washington’s Chinaware. New York, 1982. description ends , 45).

33. In addition to charges included in the price of articles, such as interest on credit, GW’s costs for British goods included fees for loading (primage) and clearing ships in Britain, freight charges for transporting goods across the Atlantic, insurance on the goods shipped, and Cary’s commission of 2½ percent on the whole.