1. GW’s account with William Ramsay shows him owing GW £415.15.7½ in November 1759 for £200 borrowed and for several purchases of flour and wheat. Ramsay paid Thomas Kirkpatrick £300 on this account on 23 May 1760. The entire account was settled in August 1764 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 90).

2. See Settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis Estate, 20 April 1759–5 Nov. 1761, doc. III-B, n.27.

3. The Rev. David Mossom was rector of St. Peter’s Church, St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent County, from 1727 to 1767.

4. John Randolph (c.1728–1784) practiced law in Williamsburg at this time.

5. Richard Coleman and his son John ran an ordinary on the Leesburg road at Sugar Land Run. GW recorded in his diary on 4 May that he “set out for Frederick [County] to see my Negroes that lay Ill of the Small Pox.” He arrived at Coleman’s “about Sun setting” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:276).

6. Valentine Crawford promised to pay back the £15 on or before 1 Nov. 1760 (Valentine Crawford’s bond, 8 May 1760, MHi: Miscellaneous Bound Collection). Crawford paid off this loan in butter, which he regularly supplied to GW (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 90; Valentine Crawford’s account, 26 April 1760–October 1761, ViMtvL).

7. GW’s first dealings with the frontier entrepreneur Richard Stephenson (d. 1765) in Frederick County were probably in 1750 when GW surveyed for Stephenson tracts of 408 acres and 316 acres at the forks of Bullskin Run. Through the years GW had frequent dealings not only with Richard Stephenson but also with at least four of Stephenson’s sons and his two stepsons, William and Valentine Crawford. The £4.16 paid in cash to Stephenson on this date was a part of the total GW paid him between January 1760 and October 1762 for “Butter Liquor Iron &ca” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 3). GW stopped by Stephenson’s bloomery on 9 May on his way back to Mount Vernon. For a discussion of the manufacture of iron by Richard Stephenson and William Vestal, see Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:277–78.

8. William Gardner was a planter in Fairfax County.

9. Mr. Watson may have been GW’s friend Joseph Watson, who was a partner of John Kirkpatrick in 1758–59 and made purchases for GW in Philadelphia in 1765.

10. Garner may be William Gardner (see note 8), or he may be Joseph Gardner who rented a farm on Clifton’s Neck from GW. GW records on 13 May that “People all working at Muddy Hole getting in [Richard] Stephens’s Corn” (ibid., 279).

11. For the terms of GW’s lease of Mount Vernon from George and Ann Lee, 17 Dec. 1754, see Papers, Colonial Series description begins W. W. Abbot et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series. 10 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1983–95. description ends , 1:232–35.

12. GW was setting off for Williamsburg, but at Colchester he turned back to Mount Vernon because he was informed “that the Assembly wd. be broke up before I could get down” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:280–81).

13. John West, Jr., not Col. John West, was sheriff of Fairfax County from 1759 to 1761. The elder West had been sheriff from 1757 to 1759. For GW’s account of the payment of taxes and levies totaling £26.8.2, see Memorandum, 1758–59. He summarizes this data in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 99.

14. For the account of GW’s payment of quitrents to George William Fairfax, agent of the Fairfax Proprietary, on 23 May 1760, see the Memorandum (“List of Quitrents”), c.May 1760.

15. For GW’s agreement to support Maurice Pound’s vineyard in Colchester by advancing him £15 “upon a Mortgage of his Lotts” there (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 100), see Subscription for Maurice Pound, October 1759.

16. Martha Custis settled a payment of £35 per annum on her mother Frances Dandridge, and this was the payment of the first annuity (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 100).