III-C-3. Schedule C: Account of Martha Parke Custis’s Share of the Estate, c.October 1759

III-C-3

Schedule C: Account of Martha Parke Custis’s Share of the Estate, 1759

[c.October 1759]

Dr
Miss Martha Parke Custis	Sterling	Currency
To Sundries out of the Goods Impord1	£18. 9.8 1/2
To ⅓ of £540.14.5 made use of for the Estate before the Division2		£180. 4. 9 1/4
To Doctor Amsons Acct		9. 1. 6
To Eliz: Vaughan makg Cloaths		.19. 3
To 5 Yds printed Linnen		1. .
To Toys & altering her Stays		. 4. 6
	£18. 9.8 1/2	£191.10. 1/4
Contra Cr.
	Sterling	Currency
By her third of the Estate	£1617.18.	£7618. 7.11 1/23

AD, ViHi: Custis Papers; AD, ViLxW: Washington’s Account Book, both in GW’s hand and essentially identical. There is also John Mercer’s earlier draft of this document (see source note, doc. III-C–1).

1. See doc. III-A–8.

2. See doc. III-A–4. In Mercer’s draft this is one-third of £370.4.3, or a total of £123.8.1 (ViHi: Custis Papers).

3. GW first carried over the debit and credit totals here to an account in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends that he set up for Martha Parke Custis, dating these totals October 1759. The account in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends runs until October 1761, but GW abandoned that account after making an entry for 22 Oct. 1761. He then struck the balances for this original account in the Account Book (£7,426.17.11 current money and £1,599.8.3½ sterling) and carried the total over to the guardian’s account that he set up for Martha Parke Custis (doc. IV-C). See also docs. III-C–1 and III-C–2.

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Title: III-C-3. Schedule C: Account of Martha Parke Custis’s Share of the Estate, c.October 1759
Author: Washington, George
Date: October 1759

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Cite as: “III-C-3. Schedule C: Account of Martha Parke Custis’s Share of the Estate, c.October 1759,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-06-02-0164-0017. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 6, 4 September 1758 – 26 December 1760, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, p. 264.]