George Washington Papers

Cash Accounts, February 1768

Cash Accounts

[February 1768]

Cash
Feby 14— To Ditto [cash] recd of Messrs Carlyle & Adam £75. 0.0
To Ditto of Mr Humphrey Peake 1.13.0
Contra
Feby 10— By Alexander McKenzie—Taylors Acct1 1. 6.0
13— By Mr Tomison Ellzey lent2 10. 0.0
15— By Lund Washington 10. 0.0
16— By Mr Arrols Acct 4. 9.9

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 269.

1. GW employed Alexander McKenzie as a tailor in 1768 and 1769.

2. Thomasin (Thomazin) Ellzey, who went fox hunting with GW on this day, had not yet repaid this loan on 1 Jan. 1772. No record of his doing so after that has been found. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 270, and General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 23.

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    Cash Accounts, February 1768
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    Washington, George
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    February 1768

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    “Cash Accounts, February 1768,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0042. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 8, 24 June 1767 – 25 December 1771, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 67.]