Cash Accounts, December 1770
Cash Accounts
[December 1770]
Cash | |||
Decr 14— | To Cash recd from Mr R. Adam pr Lund Washington viz. 446 Dollars | ||
@ 5/9 | £128. 4.6 | ||
2 dble loons weight | 8.13.9 | ||
2 half Joes Do | 4.12.6 | ||
4 Guineas @ 26/3 | 5. 5.0 | ||
458½ Pistoreens weigg | 27. 1.6 | 173.17.31 | |
Contra | |||
Decr 5— | By Cash to Jno. Ball pr Richd Talbott2 | 12. 0.0 | |
6— | By Ditto to Dominicus Gubner | 4. 6.0 | |
8— | By Ditto lent Wm Roberts | 15. 0.0 | |
9— | By Lund Washington to be accd for | 4. 0.0 | |
19— | By Mr Jno. Ball | 20. 0.0 | |
22— | By Charity | 0. 6.0 | |
By Servants | 0. 2.6 | ||
By Jno. Parke Custis to buy Sundries at Fredg3 | 2. 6.3 | ||
26— | By Jonathan Palmer | 6. 6.0 | |
31— | By Mr Humphrey Peake4 | 10. 0.0 |
AD, 330.
, folio1. GW drew this amount on the balance of his account with Carlyle & Adam of Alexandria, the firm that was at this time buying his wheat crop and much of the produce of his fishery. See , folio 326.
2. Richard Talbott was one of the workmen helping the millwright John Ball build GW’s new mill.
3. See GW to Jonathan Boucher, 16 Dec. 1770, n.1, and editors’ note for the diary entry of 22 Dec. ( , 2:332).