Ledger A, 1750 - 1772: pg.194

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Ledger A, folio 194, left side

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Ledger A, folio 194, right side
Year Month Day Entry £ sh d
1
2 1763. May.

To Expences in visiting, & examining the Swamp the first time in May

 15 5 10 1/2
3 Octr

To Ditto, in part the 2d time when we went round it

 2 7 2
4 Novr

To Ditto paid Doctr Walker in part for his & my Costs to the Surveyor &ca

 6
5 1764.

To Expences in procuring Assignments

 7 8
6 June

To 100 Barls of Indian Corn to be deliverd for the use of the Company @ 12/6

 62 10
7 July—

To my Expences to the Swamp in order to receive & set ye [the] People to Work

 7 14 1
8

[Total]

 £ 94 4 9 1/2
9 Decr 12

To Balle credited Colo. Fielding Lewis

 50 5 2 1/2
10

[Total]

 144 10
11

To value of my Slaves (provided for Draing the Dismal Swamp) above ye [the] average Price of them

 52 18 4
12 Decr 16.

To Cash paid Colo. Lewis for my quota of £480 voted by the Company Decr 16th 1764

 40
13

[Total]

 £ 92 18 4
14 1765. Octr

To Cash allow'd in Acct with Colo. Lewis for ye [the] Contra Shings.

 35
15 1766.

To Ditto paid Mr Jno. Washington by Colo. Lewis

 25
16 May 3.

To Ditto pd Ditto myself

 25
17 Decr

To Cash paid Mills Riddick's Exrs being the first payment due for Land bot of them

 100
18 1767. Apl

To Cash pd Colo. Fieldg Lewis—my proportion towards the first paymts for ye [the] above Land

 17 7 10
19

To Ditto pd Do being a Balle recd from the Contra Gentlemen

 4 7 0
20

[Total]

 £ 206 14 10
21

To my Exps. going & returng to the Swamp in Novr 1766

 1 2 10
22

To Do Do going &ca in Apl 1767

 1 12 6
23 1767 Octr

To half of Colo. Lewis's and my Exps. to ye [the] Swamp this Trip—the whole being £1:15.9

 17 10
24

To my propn of the last paymt for Riddicks Land

 17 11 4
25 1768.

To my Exps. to the Dismal Swamp in Octr 1768

 2 16 8
26

To Cash pd Colo. Lewis for my part of ye [the] late Speakers share in ye [the] disml Swamp

 56 2 2
27

[Total]

 80 3 4
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Year Month Day Entry £ sh d
1
2 1763. May

By Sundry Sums of £3. put in by Messrs Lewis Basset, Walker & my self in our first trip to the Dismal Swamp

 12
3 Novr

By my quota of £600. voted for carrying on the Work of Draining &ca

 50
4 1764 May.

By Cash of Colo. Fieldg Lewis

 20
5

By the Contra 100 Barls of Corn not wanted

 62 10
6

[Total]

 £ 144 10
7

By Cash of Jno. Robinson Esqr. whose Slaves were under the average price

 52 18 4
8 1764 Decr 6

By my quota of £480 voted this day for carrying on our operation's in the D. Swamp

 40
9

[Total]

 92 18 4
10 1765. June 12

By 70,000. Shingles of Mr Jno. Washington @ 10/

 35 0
11 1766. May 3

By my proportion of £300 Voted

 25
12

By Do Do of £300 Voted this day

 25
13 Decr

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
14 Decr

By Do from Doctr Waker-Colo. Tucker & Mr Farley each £17—7.10. by the hands of Colo. Fielding Lewis

52:3.6
15

[Total]

 104 7 0
16

By my own propn of the paymt

 17 7 10
17

[Total]

 £ 206 14 10
18

By my Interest in the Land purchas'd of Mr Mills Riddicks Estate

 17 11 4
19

By my Ditto in the late Speakers Share of the Swamp

 56 2 2
20 1772 Jan. 1.

By Balle carrd to Acct in Ledger B 15

 6 9 10
21

[Total]

 £ 80 3 4
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