1. Daniel McCarty was paying £23.0.3 for “26,300 eighteen Inch Cyprus Shingles” that he had bought from GW on 9 May 1767 and also for weaving done in 1766 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 218).

2. James Adam was a partner in Robert Adam & Co., which was buying GW’s flour. Adam brought to Mount Vernon the payment of £41.0.6 on 20 Oct., and Hector Ross brought the £100 payment the next day. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 341, and Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 3:62.

3. As the executor of the estate of Daniel French, who was building the new Pohick church at the time of his death, George Mason assumed responsibility for completing the work. See Minutes of Truro Parish Vestry, 21 Sept. 1769, and notes.

4. Con McCarty worked at GW’s mill, probably as a mason, for 36½ days between August and October 1771 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 343).

5. Daniel McCarty was in charge of the sale of John Posey’s effects on 18 May 1770. GW attended the sale. See Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 2:236, and General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 307.

6. James Boyd, or Boyls, had smith’s work done at Mount Vernon from 1760 and bought wool, flour, and corn from GW. In partial payment of his account, in December 1771 he made fifty pairs of “Negroes Shoes” for GW (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 79, 351).

7. John Alton was drawing on the £25.4.0 due him as “his share of 1136½ Bushls of Wheat made at my Muddy hole Plantn in 1770 his ninth coming to 126 Bushls @ 4/” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 268).

8. In his Account of Expenditures for Trip to the Great Kanawha, 6 Oct.—30 Nov. 1770, GW entered at the end: £20, “Cash pd Edwd Snickers on Acct of MillStones.” “Mr Ross” is either Hector Ross of Dumfries or David Ross of Maryland.

9. Ann Mitchell has not been identified.

10. In an undated memorandum mistakenly dated October 1771 in DLC:GW, GW lists all of the surveys that William Crawford made between 1771 and 1773 for the officers and soldiers receiving land under the terms of the Proclamation of 1754. See particularly Resolutions of the Officers of the Virginia Regiment of 1754, 23 Nov. 1772.

11. GW was paying his share of the expense of Crawford’s survey for the Virginia Regiment. See Minutes of the Meeting of the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Regiment of 1754, 5 Mar. 1771, n.5.

12. GW left for Williamsburg on 23 Oct. and did not arrive back at Mount Vernon until the evening of 11 November.

13. Mr. Ward may be James Ward of Fredericksburg, where GW was visiting from 24 to 27 October.

14. George and Charles Lewis, sons of Fielding and Betty Lewis, were GW’s nephews. They were fourteen and eleven years old respectively. GW spent the night of 24 Oct. at the Lewises.

15. GW went to the theater five times while in Williamsburg. The American Company of Comedians was in town. See Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 3:63, 65, 67–68.

16. Col. Theodorick Bland, of Cawsons, Prince George County, was county clerk and county lieutenant. He was the father of Theodorick Bland (1742–1790), colonel of the 1st Continental Dragoons during the Revolution.

17. Will was probably GW’s personal servant, Will, or Billy, Lee.