1. On 1 Aug. 1786 Mahony (Mahoney) first signed Articles of Agreement to serve GW at Mount Vernon as a house carpenter and joiner for one year for £30 and keep. Tobias Lear responded to Mahony’s letter for GW on 4 April: “The General has received your letter of yesterday and desires me to inform you that he [will] not give you any more than twenty four pounds per year and the making of Clothes Shoes &c. as he mentioned to you here. He thinks this sum is fully equal if not better than the wages which he gave you when you worked for him last year, as every article of produce &c. by which wages should be regulated is much cheaper now then at that time. If you incline to come upon those terms you will inform me by the bearer or come down your self tomorrow or next day” (DLC:GW). Mahony signed articles of agreement on 15 April 1788 (DLC:GW) accepting GW’s terms. He continued in GW’s employ until 1792 (see Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , 236, 271, and 331).