1. See Cash Accounts, October 1763, n.4.

2. In his account with the treasury GW entered this on this day as “By Cash of Robt Carter Nicholas Esqr.” On the other side of the ledger he recorded the same amount on 21 Dec. 1769, “To Richd Starkes Order” (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 303).

3. This was GW’s pay for his attendance, including his usual allowance for travel to and from Williamsburg, at the meetings of the Virginia assembly on 7–17 May 1769, 7–21 Nov. 1769, and for thirty days in May–June 1770.

4. Walker Taliaferro and Col. John Baylor (1705–1772) were both of Caroline County, and both of them were noted horsemen in the colony. Taliaferro at this time was a burgess for his county. The horse race for which GW was contributing to the purse has not been identified.

5. See GW to Edmund Pendleton, May 1770, n.2.

6. GW attended the sale of Thomas Moore’s estate at West Point on 11 June. He bought two slaves, Frank for £31 and James, a boy, for £55. He also bought a bay mare, for £8.5. The total of £94.5 was credited against Moore’s bond of indebtedness held by GW in the name of his ward Martha Parke Custis. See Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 2:246, and General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 204.

7. John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera opened in Williamsburg on 16 June.

8. For a description of Bernard Moore’s financial difficulties, culminating in his surrendering his estate to trustees in the fall of 1770, see particularly Bernard Moore to GW, 29 Dec. 1766, n.1. Announcements of lotteries of Moore’s property and of the drawing of prizes are frequent in the Virginia newspapers between 1768 and 1772. George Brooke was a burgess from King and Queen County from 1766 until the Revolution, except for the years 1769–71.

9. GW’s account with John Washington is in General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 282.

10. Christiana Campbell’s receipt dated 23 June lists £6.10 for “5 weeks lodging and breakfast,” five shillings for “dinner and Club,” four shillings for “punch,” and £3 for “60 meals for your boy” (NNPM).

11. On 3 Aug. GW paid James Hunter, Sr. (d. 1785), of King George County an additional £10.5 for equipment to be used in the new mill on Dogue Run which GW began building in April 1770.

12. The advertisement headed Williamsburg, 21 June 1770, and appearing above GW’s name in the Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon; Williamsburg), dated 21 June, reads: “The officers of the first troops who engaged in the service of this colony (before the battle of the Meadows, in the year 1754) or their representatives, are requested to meet at Fredericksburg on the first day of August next, in order to consider of some matters relative to their grant of land. A meeting at this time may be essential to their interests, and therefore it is hoped that they will not fail to attend accordingly.”

13. Jonathan Boucher stopped by Mount Vernon on 27–28 June en route to Annapolis and received this payment on John Parke Custis’s account.

14. Edward Barkley has not been identified.