16. Dined at my Brother Chas. & spent the Evening at Colo. Lewis’s.
GW today recorded paying his mother £30 cash in the presence of brother Charles (General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 45).
“[Diary entry: 16 September 1772],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0002-0020-0016. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, pp. 130–131.]