27. Set of from Fredericksburg & reachd Colo. Henry Lees where we lodged.
GW today recorded paying his mother £15 cash in the presence of his sister Betty (General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 45, 62).
“[Diary entry: 27 November 1772],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0002-0026-0027. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 144.]