George Washington Papers

Cash Accounts, September 1772

Cash Accounts

[September 1772]

Cash
Septr  5— To Cash Won at Cards £ 1.15.0
29— To Ditto of Edward Wathing for 1 Barl Corn1 0.16.0
To Ditto of Ditto on Smiths Acct 0. 3.0
Contra
4— By Cash to Mr Custis 4.16.0
By Servants 1. 3.0
7— By Cash pd Colo. [William] Fitzhugh, by Govr [Robert] Eden for a Whale-Boat £19.15. Maryd Cy eql to2 15.16.0
By Mr [Jonathan] Bouchers Servants 0.18.0
9— By Mr [Benedict] Calverts Servants 0.18.0
11— By Mr Ignateus Digges’s3 1. 4.0
15— By Expences at Peytons Ordy & other places to, & from Fredericksburg4 1. 3.6
17— By Servants 0. 1.6
By repairing Watch 0. 2.6
By Charity 0. 6.0
By Cash paid my Mother5 30. 0.0
By Ditto lost at Cards 1. 5.0
18— By Ditto paid Thos Davis in full for Wea[vin]g 1.16.6
 
By Ditto pd Jno. Javings carrying Chain6 0. 3.9
21— By Charity 0. 6.0
By Postage of 2 Letters7 0. 1.3
22— By dble gilt Button’s 0.11.0
25— By Cash paid Thomas Bishop 1.10.0
26— By Mr Wm Carlin8 5.12.0
29— By Cash pd Edwd Wathing for 30 Bls Wheat 5/ 7.10.0
By Ditto pd Do for Jno. Javings 20½ Do Do 5/9 5. 2.6
By Ditto repairg Mr Thos Gists Watch10 0.12.0
30— By Ditto paid Lund Washington11 23. 0.0
By Ditto lost at Cards 2. 0.0

AD, Ledger B, 60.

1. Edward Wathing (Wathen), a cobbler, lived near Mount Vernon.

2. See Jonathan Boucher to GW, 5 Mar. 1772, n.3.

3. GW visited Ignatius Digges (1701–1785) at Melwood, Prince George’s County, Md., on 9 and 10 Sept. (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 3:129).

4. GW went to Fredericksburg on 14 Sept. to meet with other former military officers on the fifteenth to devise a strategy for securing for Virginia veterans of the French and Indian War the land promised to participants in the war by the royal Proclamation of 1763. See Resolutions of Officers regarding the Royal Proclamation of 1763, 15 Sept., and notes. GW records the several expenditures on this trip in his Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends .

5. In his Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends , given under 16 Sept., GW added: “in the presence of my Br. Chas.”

6. On this day GW accompanied surveyor George West on his court-ordered survey and division of the land in dispute between William Barry and GW. See Cash Accounts, March 1771, n.13, and Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 3:14–15, 131.

7. In his Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends GW indicates these two letters were to James Mercer and Charles Washington. These letters have not been found.

8. William Carlin’s account for making clothes for GW and, mostly, for GW’s servants between 17 June and 30 Aug. 1772 shows total charges of £7.11.7½ minus credits of £1.19.7. Below the account GW wrote: “Receivd the above Sum of Five pounds Twelve Shillings Curr[enc]y in full of all Accts to this 26th day of Septr 1772” (PHi: Washington Manuscripts), to which Carlin put his signature. In his Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends GW entered under this date: “By Cash paid Mr Wm Carlin after deducting 8/ for half a Barrl of Corn & £1.11.7. due Messrs Cunningham & Alexander for Silk chargd me.”

9. GW’s entry in his Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends reads: “By Do pd Ditto for 20½ Do belongg to John Javings.”

10. Thomas Gist, who formerly served under GW in the old Virginia Regiment, was visiting Mount Vernon on 25 and 26 Sept. (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 3:132).

11. This money was “advancd Lund Washington on his journy to Redstone” (Cash Memoranda, 1772-75 description begins “Pocket-day-Book or Cash-Memorandums,” 9 Aug. 1772–27 May 1773, 29 May 1773–22 March 1774, 26 Oct. 1774–3 May 1775. Manuscript in George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. 24 March-31 October 1774. Manuscript in Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif. description ends ).

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    “Cash Accounts, September 1772,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-09-02-0071. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 9, 8 January 1772 – 18 March 1774, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 91–92.]