Cash Accounts, December 1766

Cash Accounts

[December 1766]

Cash
Decr —	To Cash won at Cards	£ 8. 0. 0
12—	To Do of Colo. F[ielding] Lewis due to my proportion of our Carolina Plantn Acct1	1.14.10 1/2
Do—	To Do of Do on Acct of his Wa[l]ker & my Purchases in Nansemond2	1. 9. 6
25—	To Ditto of Vale Crawford for Mr Jno. Auge Washington	3. 0. 0
	To Ditto of Mr Humphrey Peake
	[Maryland currency]	0. 7. 6
	[Virginia currency]	3.11. 8
	To Ditto of Danl Talbot Weaving
	[Maryland currency]	1. 2. 6
	To Do Balle of Jno. Wards Acct	0. 9. 7 1/2
	To Cash at Cards [Maryland currency]	0. 7. 6
	[Virginia currency]	0. 5. 3
	To Ditto recd & not chargd	5.15.
Contra
Decr 1—	By Postage of a Letter	0. 1. 0
	By Tea at the Coffee House3	0. 1. 0
	By Servants	0. 1. 3
2—	By Jno. P. Custis	1. 0. 0
4—	By 1 Phial Balsams of Honey	0. 7. 6
	By Mr [William] Rind for 1 Years Gazette to end in May next	0.12. 6
	By Servants	0. 1. 0

	By mending two fans—Mr Geddy4	0. 3. 9
	By 2 Bonnets of Mr [James] Hubbard	1. 5. 0
	By 1 Greek Grammer for Mr Custis	0. 2. 6
	By Postage of Letters 3/. 2 Packs Cards 2/6	0. 5. 6
10	By Mr Trebell—Wmsburg Purse Octr 1765	1. 0. 0
11—	By Colo. Tayloe for the Williamsburg Octr Purse 17665	1. 0. 0
12—	By Wm Godfrey Barbers Acct6	3. 3. 6
	By Expences at Trebells	4.11. 9
	By 1 Dozn Oranges	0. 3. 9
	By 1 sett of Necklace & Earings	2. 0. 0
	By Mrs Campbell for board & Lodgg	17. 7. 6
	By Mr Craig for 1 pr Garnet Earings	2. 0. 0
15—	By Mr Barthw Dandridge7	22.10. 0
	By Colo. Bassets Servants	0.14. 3
16—	By Expences at Hubbards	1.12. 6
	By Servants	0. 1. 3
17—	By [William] Houston’s Acct 13/6. Cards 15/	1. 8. 6
	By Expences at Dumfries	1. 9. 4
19—	By Antimony	0. 2. 6
	By Expences at Occoquan ferry	0.10. 0
20—	By Ditto at Lynton’s Ordy8	0.18. 0
	By Tarter emetic & L[iqui]d Laudanum for Mr Abednego Adams	0. 4. 0
	By Mr [Hector] Ross’s Smith mendg Wheels of Cha[rio]t	0. 1. 0
21—	By 5 Gallns Cranburys [Maryland currency]	0. 7. 6
	By 75 lbs. dryed fish [Maryland currency]	0.15. 0
25—	By Robert Haims	0.15. 0
26—	By Jno. Alton	7. 0. 0
	By Colo. [George William] Fairfax’s Servants	1. 5. 0
	By Danl Talbot in change	0. 2. 6
31—	By Cash supposd to be paid away & not credited	17. 6. 2
	By Ditto upon hand this day & carrd to new Acct for 1767 folio 242 viz.
	In Virginia Paper £160.7.9
	English Silver 1.5.7	161.13. 4
	Dollars 76¾ @7/6 [Maryland currency]	28.15. 6

AD, General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 237, 238.

1. See Deed from Marmaduke Norfleet, 26 April 1766.

2. See Mills Riddick’s Bond, 24 Nov. 1766.

3. The Coffee House in Williamsburg, located near the Capitol, was reopened during the following year as a tavern by Richard Charlton (Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon; Williamsburg], 25 June 1767; Virginia Gazette [Rind; Williamsburg], 2 Feb. 1769).

4. James Geddy had a store in Williamsburg.

5. On 23 Oct. 1766 John Tayloe’s Hero beat William Byrd’s Valiant Tryall and Richard Lee’s Mark Anthony “at the race ground near this city” (Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon; Williamsburg], 24 Oct. 1766).

6. William Godfrey, peruke maker, advertised in the Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon; Williamsburg) on 25 April 1766 the opening in Williamsburg of a “shop between the Raleigh and the Capitol, where he proposes carrying on his business in all its branches.”

7. The £22.10, which was “Cash [paid Bartholomew Dandridge] at [Burwell Bassett’s],” may have been in partial payment of £45 for “1 Single Chair—& Sorrel Horse” that GW was buying from Dandridge (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 110).

8. William Linton (Lynton; died c.1770) ran a tavern in Colchester and was a member of the Truro Parish vestry.

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