Cash Accounts, December 1760
Cash Accounts
[December 1760]
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| Decr 10— | By George Taylor’s Balle pr Acct 20/1—Club at Hughs’s 1/2 | £ 1. 1. 0 | |||||||||||||
| 11— | By hire of a Boat to go to Mr Rozer’s 10/.3 Club at Masons 1/64 | 0.11. 6 | |||||||||||||
| 12— | By Colo. Carlyle’s Servts given 10/ | 0.10. 0 | |||||||||||||
| By Mr Muirs Acct for 2000—10d. Nails5 | 1. 0. 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 13— | By Jno. Carney for a horse £10 | 10. 0. 0 | |||||||||||||
| By Saml Johnston for 15 head of Sheep a 6/6 | 4.17. 6 | ||||||||||||||
| By Ditto for a horse had of Jos[ep]h Gardner6 | 12.18. 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 15— | By Gilbt Simpson for 42 Barrels of Corn a 7/67 | 15.15. 0 | |||||||||||||
| Ditto for 1 stack of Tops & 3 of Blades8 | 9. 0. 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 16— | By [ ] Lovett. a New Englandman—Maryld viz. C[urrenc]y | ||||||||||||||
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| 2.12. 3 | |||||||||||||||
| 18— | By Wm Leake for puttg a Chimy to School Ho. & plg Ditto9 | 3. 5. 0 | |||||||||||||
| By Valentine Crawford for a Waggon & 1 Horse &ca | 20. 0. 0 | ||||||||||||||
| By Patrick Grace for Thrashing10 | 3. 0. 0 | ||||||||||||||
| By 2 Sows big of Pig @ 10/ | 1. 0. 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 22— | By Joseph Ransom in full for Working at my Mill | 0.12. 0 | |||||||||||||
| By Cash lent Jno. Askew | 16. 0. 0 | ||||||||||||||
| By Richd Ryder (in gold) for 7,200 Shingles | 6. 9. 6 | ||||||||||||||
| 27— | By Alexandria Lottery Tickets | 5.10. 0 | |||||||||||||
| By gave a Beggar | 0. 5. 0 | ||||||||||||||
| By Money lost or pd & not charged | 101. 0.11 ½11 | ||||||||||||||
AD, , folio 112.
1. Among the things for which GW charged George Taylor in closing his account on 10 May 1760 was “1 Load of Houshold Goods Waggon’d to Goos Creek” 17s. 6d. (, folio 82), suggesting that Taylor at that time had moved from GW’s neighborhood to Loudoun County.
2. Nathan Hughes on 18 Dec. 1759 applied for a license to keep an ordinary in Alexandria, and in December 1760 he and his wife mortgaged their property to Carlyle & Dalton.
3. Henry Rozer (Rozier) lived at Notley Hall, Prince Georges County, Md., opposite Alexandria.
4. Ann Mason (d.1761), widow of Charles Mason (d.1757), applied in November 1757 for a license to keep an ordinary in Alexandria. She was granted a license on 22 May 1760 under John Dalton’s sponsorship.
5. John Muir (c.1731–1791) was one of the Scottish merchants in Alexandria.
6. GW’s tenant Samuel Johnston, Sr., paid Joseph Gardner, another tenant, for the horse and sheep in September 1760. GW records having paid Johnston on this date £17.15 for the fifteen sheep and the horse (, folio 77).
7. Both Gilbert Simpson, Sr., and Gilbert Simpson, Jr., were renting farms at Mount Vernon in 1760.
8. Tops and blades are leaves of tobacco.
9. This may have been the William Leake of Fairfax County who in May 1760 was tried and convicted of hog stealing and then sentenced to receive twenty-five lashes and to pay a fine of £10.
10. In his account with Patrick Grace (, folio 113), GW records owing Grace in August 1760 1s. 8d. for threshing five bushels of rye, in September £2.9.8 for threshing [c.199] bushels of oats, and on 20 Dec. 9s. 8d. for threshing nineteen bushels and one peck of wheat.
11. The “Money lost” entry is written after entries for 3 and 10 Jan. 1761 and is followed by the notation “1761—By Balle carrd to new Acct folio 141–898.10.9” and by the running total of £9,752.14.6½. This completes a page in the account book of . When GW began a new page he changed the format for the cash accounts in his ledger. Instead of continuing his chronological entries, he used for the years 1761 and 1762 a grouping of entries by subject, such as “Tavern Keepers” and “Doctors.” In 1763 he returned to his former practice of making his entries in simple chronological order.