27. Dined and lodgd at Dumfries with Mr. Boucher & J. P. Custis who overtook us on the Road.
Before GW left his mother he gave her £6 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 299).
“[Diary entry: 27 December 1769],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0004-0032-0027. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 204.]