Adventurers for Draining the Dismal Swamp Dr
To Expences in visiting, & examining the Swamp the first time in May
To Ditto, in part the 2d time when we went round it
To Ditto paid Doctr Walker in part for his & my Costs to the Surveyor &ca
To Expences in procuring Assignments
To 100 Barls of Indian Corn to be deliverd for the use of the Company @ 12/6
To my Expences to the Swamp in order to receive & set ye [the] People to Work
[Total]
To Balle credited Colo. Fielding Lewis
To value of my Slaves (provided for Draing the Dismal Swamp) above ye [the] average Price of them
To Cash paid Colo. Lewis for my quota of £480 voted by the Company Decr 16th 1764
To Cash allow'd in Acct with Colo. Lewis for ye [the] Contra Shings.
To Ditto paid Mr Jno. Washington by Colo. Lewis
To Ditto pd Ditto myself
To Cash paid Mills Riddick's Exrs being the first payment due for Land bot of them
To Cash pd Colo. Fieldg Lewis—my proportion towards the first paymts for ye [the] above Land
To Ditto pd Do being a Balle recd from the Contra Gentlemen
To my Exps. going & returng to the Swamp in Novr 1766
To Do Do going &ca in Apl 1767
To half of Colo. Lewis's and my Exps. to ye [the] Swamp this Trip—the whole being £1:15.9
To my propn of the last paymt for Riddicks Land
To my Exps. to the Dismal Swamp in Octr 1768
To Cash pd Colo. Lewis for my part of ye [the] late Speakers share in ye [the] disml Swamp
Contra Cr
By Sundry Sums of £3. put in by Messrs Lewis Basset, Walker & my self in our first trip to the Dismal Swamp
By my quota of £600. voted for carrying on the Work of Draining &ca
By Cash of Colo. Fieldg Lewis
By the Contra 100 Barls of Corn not wanted
By Cash of Jno. Robinson Esqr. whose Slaves were under the average price
By my quota of £480 voted this day for carrying on our operation's in the D. Swamp
By 70,000. Shingles of Mr Jno. Washington @ 10/
By my proportion of £300 Voted
By Do Do of £300 Voted this day
By Cash—viz. £17-7.10. recd myself, from each of the following Gentlemen—to wit Wm & Thoms Nelson Esqrs. & Mr Waters (for self & Mead)
£52:3—6
By Do from Doctr Waker-Colo. Tucker & Mr Farley each £17—7.10. by the hands of Colo. Fielding Lewis
52:3.6
By my own propn of the paymt
By my Interest in the Land purchas'd of Mr Mills Riddicks Estate
By my Ditto in the late Speakers Share of the Swamp
By Balle carrd to Acct in Ledger B 15