21. Breakfasted at King Wm. Ct. House & dind & lodgd at Eltham.
GW today spent 3s. at Ruffin’s ferry and somewhere on his route bought a pair of shoes costing 6s. for the mulatto manservant, Billy, who accompanied him (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 314).
“[Diary entry: 21 May 1770],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0005-0012-0021. [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. 238.]