George Washington Papers

Cash Accounts, June 1773

Cash Accounts

[June 1773]

Cash
June 23— To Ditto [cash] recd in part of David Kennedys Rent of Mr Geo: Johnston1 £104. 8.3
To Ditto recd from Captn Law[renc]e Sanford for 10 Barls of Flour sold at Phila. 14. 8.3
Contra
12— By ditto pd Edwd Williams 1. 4.02
15— By Servants 0. 3.0
By Cash paid John Keene for Barrl Staves £38 Maryd Cury equal to 28.12.9
By ditto paid for 5 dozn course Mett: But[tons] 0. 3.9
20— By Cash pd the Revd [Lee] Massey readg the Service over Miss Custis3 2. 6.3
23— By Charity 0. 6.0
By Mr [William] Belmains Acct 1. 4.2
By James Connells Acct for a Coffin &ca for Miss Custis3 7.17.9
 
24— By Cash paid Mr [David] Hoops of Phila. for a Phaeton bot of him £50 Pena 40. 0.0
By Cash paid Thos Bishop 9. 0.0
By Charity 0. 3.9
By Cash paid Colo. [John] Carlyle for Governor [Robert] Eden 12.15.0

AD, General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 90.

1. See note 4 in the enclosure, GW to Fielding Lewis, 20 April.

2. GW gives detailed entries of his expenses on his trip to New York in May and early June in his Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends . See also Cash Accounts for May.

3. For GW’s account of Martha Parke Custis’s death on 19 June, see his letter to Burwell Bassett, 20 June.

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    “Cash Accounts, June 1773,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-09-02-0177. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 9, 8 January 1772 – 18 March 1774, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 237–238.]