D, DLC:GW. The poll sheet is undated, but it can be identified. The Fairfax County Poll Sheet for the election of 16 July 1765, with the same three candidates but not the same list of voters, is dated by GW. No poll was taken in the burgess election in September 1769 when there were only two candidates (see Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 2:180). This, therefore, has to be the poll taken on 1 Dec. 1768 when, as is known, GW and John West outpolled John Posey as they had in 1765. The clerk’s copy printed here may in fact be the poll sheet kept by the clerk whom GW hired for the purpose (see Cash Accounts, December 1768, and note 2 of that document). The poll sheet has three columns headed by the names of the candidates followed by a list of all the freeholders who voted for each candidate, almost certainly in the order that the voters stepped forward and spoke the names of the two men for whom they wished to vote. The clerk who kept this poll does not have a separate line for each voter as GW did in his Frederick County poll of 24 July 1758, which revealed at a glance the candidate for whom each freeholder did not vote as well as the candidates for whom he did vote. For this reason, in printing the 1768 poll sheet we have not felt it useful to retain the parallel columns under the names of the candidates on each page as we did in printing the 1758 poll (see Enclosure V, Charles Smith to GW, 26 July 1758). Instead, in order to save space we have printed the lists of voters for each candidate successively. We also have deleted the clerk’s subtotals.