George Washington Papers

Cash Accounts, February 1763

Cash Accounts

[February 1763]

Cash
Feby 15— To Ditto [cash] of Captn Posey £26. 0.01
To Ditto of Do on Acct Captn Hanson Marshall2 4. 0.0
Contra
Feby 15— By Doctr [James] Lauries Acct in full: none since Jany 32.10.0
18— By taking up a stray horse 0.15.0
22— By Mrs Washington 40/—Gave Servts 2/6 2. 2.6
28— By 1 Hat of my Bror Chs Washington 2. 0.0

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 160.

1. For John Posey’s indebtedness to GW at this time, see Cash Accounts, 1762, n.10.

2. Capt. Thomas Hanson Marshall (1731–1801) lived at Marshall Hall across the Potomac from Mount Vernon in Charles County, Maryland. The £4 that Posey brought to GW was a partial payment of Marshall’s debt to GW of £9.15.7½, the rest of which he had paid off by 26 Mar. 1763. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 139.

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    Cash Accounts, February 1763
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    “Cash Accounts, February 1763,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-07-02-0113. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 7, 1 January 1761 – 15 June 1767, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990, p. 185.]