1. When settling his account with GW at this time, Martin Cockburn owed GW £21.3.1 in Virginia currency for, among other things, 10,000 shingles that GW sold him in August 1765 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 218). Cockburn came to Virginia from Jamaica and settled near Colchester (see Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 2:111).

2. On 16 Sept. 1765 GW sold four hogsheads of tobacco to Harry Piper for £34.16. On 23 Sept. GW gave Piper his order for £25.4 to be paid to William Triplett, leaving £9.12 still to be paid. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 103. In November 1765 Triplett provided GW with fifty-six barrels of Indian corn valued at £25.4 (see General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 72).

3. GW bought two lots in Alexandria on Pitt Street in 1764, one at the corner of Prince Street and the other at the corner of Cameron Street. See Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 2:183.

4. See Cash Accounts, November 1765.

5. In GW’s account with the “Adventurers for Draining the Dismal Swamp” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 194), he indicates that on 12 June 1765 John Washington supplied 70,000 shingles for £35. On the other side of the ledger he enters £35 “To Cash allowd in Acct with Colo. [Fielding] Lewis for the Contra Shing[le]s.” John Washington (1740–1777), the brother of Lund Washington, was made resident overseer of the Dismal Swamp Land Company’s operations in the swamp. See Appraisement of Dismal Swamp Slaves, 4 July 1764.

6. GW wrote in his diary on 15 Sept., “To this date my Carpenters had in all worked 82 [man] days on my Schooner” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:341). Subsequent entries well into October indicate that John Askew was supervising the work and that an average of more than twenty man-days a week were devoted to building the schooner, probably at Mount Vernon. It was launched in February 1766. Dulick Willis was from Fairfax County.

7. Twenty-five pounds of this amount was to buy out John Carney’s lease on Clifton’s Neck. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 218, and deed from John Carney to GW, 26 Feb. 1765, privately owned in 1970.