1. In Triplett’s personal account with GW the amount is given as £27.8.0¾. William Triplett’s charges for the brickwork and plastering that he had done at Mount Vernon in 1758 and afterwards amounted to £74.18.4. GW paid him £50 in cash in February 1760, and by February 1764 Triplett had incurred charges of £50.15.4¾ for work done by GW’s slave carpenters as well as other small charges for goods and service. The £27.8.0¾ that Triplett paid GW represented the difference between what he owed and was owed, and the payment settled the account (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 72).

2. John Ward paid two shillings for the “Pointing &ca a Duckbill Coulter” by GW’s blacksmith (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 174).

3. George Johnston’s charges for legal work that he had done for GW since 1757 totaled £14.5, and in the same period GW had advanced the Alexandria lawyer a total of £42.18.5. After paying GW £35.8.9, Johnston still owed GW £7.9.8. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 5 and 133.

4. Under his personal account with Daniel French GW has entered the amount of 11s. 6d. received in June 1764 (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 118).

5. This was for the inspection of the forty-eight hogsheads of tobacco that GW shipped in the Tryal in 1763. See GW to Robert Cary & Co., 27 Sept. 1763.

6. This was probably James Briggs, master of the Brothers, who at this time was carrying on trade between Virginia and the West Indies.

7. Thomas Boseley (Bozley), a connection of GW’s neighbors, the McCartys, owned land in Fairfax County.

8. Joseph Thompson lived in Frederick County, and Richard Horsley was hauling GW’s mountain tobacco to Alexandria.

9. GW frequently used Zachariah Connel in 1765 as a wagoner from his Bullskin plantation. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 219. James McCarmick (McCormick; died c.1789) lived on Bullskin Run in Frederick County.

10. As early as the spring of 1760 John Posey approached GW with an offer to buy for him a plot of land adjoining GW’s Mount Vernon mill tract (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:251, 254). Henry Trenn (Tren) died in 1751 and left jointly to his minor son and daughter a tract of about two hundred acres on the west bank of Dogue Run. The son Absolom was dead by 1760, and Posey, who had been guardian of the Trenn children, informed GW that he thought he could buy the land for GW for £50 or £60. The daughter Diana Trenn was by this time married to William Whiting, and in 1764 the Whitings sold the land to Posey for GW for £75, which was paid in three installments. The Whiting purchase was part of what had been a 300–acre tract, 94 acres of which Henry Trenn sold to Lawrence Washington in 1751 and which at this time comprised a part of GW’s mill tract. See General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 168; Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 1:241, 251, 254; deed of release from William and Diana Whiting to GW, 19 June 1764 (photocopy), ViMtvL. The deeds of lease and release, 18 and 19 June, were sold at the Thomas Birch’s Sons sale, catalog no. 663, items 24 and 24½, April 1891.

11. GW wrote in his account with the tailor Bryan Allison that the £4.10 was “sent you by yr Son” on 15 June (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 68).

12. There were three Miss Wades who lived on a tract of land adjoining GW’s Mill farm—Valinda, Sarah, and Eleanor.

13. See Memorandum: List of Quitrents, 1764.

14. Richard Arell’s tavern was in Alexandria.

15. See note 10.