George Washington Papers

Cash Accounts, February 1759

Cash Accounts

[February 1759]

Cash
Feby 10— To Ditto [cash] of Colo. Mercer for a horse sold him1 £21.10.0
Contra
Feby— By Cards 5/.  Smiths work 15/ 1. 0.0
7— By Exps. at Hubbards2  31/3 1.11.3

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 52, 55.

1. George Mercer wrote GW, 16 Sept. 1759, about a “grey Horse” that Mercer had sold to GW, but the only entry in GW’s account with Mercer is recorded in November 1755, for £16.2.6 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 40).

2. Benjamin Hubbard’s ordinary was in Caroline County on the road from Williamsburg to Fredericksburg, about midway between the two towns.

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    Cash Accounts, February 1759
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    Washington, George
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    February 1759

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    “Cash Accounts, February 1759,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-06-02-0154. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 6, 4 September 1758 – 26 December 1760, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, p. 191.]