Debit Side Annotation
Line 9 - According to GW's diary he and the directors of the Potomac River Company met in Georgetown, Md., on 22 Oct. 1787. The expenses to which he refers in this entry may have included both his meal at John Suter's tavern (at Georgetown), where he "Dined" that day, as well as his journey back to Mount Vernon, which included an overnight stop at Abingdon (Custis plantation on the Potomac River). GW was back at Mount Vernon on 23 October. See Diaries, 5:205-6 [Rotunda | Founders Online].
The Poto. Compy
To Cash pd Mr Heartshorne, my Quota of Advance
Sterling
To Do pd Do my 1/3d Dividend, for the Poto. Navigation, on 5 Shares
To Amot of my Exps. as p. Accot Rendd
To Cash pd Mr Heartshorne, my 1/4th Dividend
To Do pd Do my 2d Dividend, (Omitted)
To Do pd expences up to the G. Falls to meet the Directors
To Cash pd into the hands of the Treasurer my fifth dividend on 5 Shares
£30.0.0
248
To my Exps. at a Meeting of the Directors at G. Town
256
To ditto at a meeting of Ditto in Alexandria
To ditto at a meeting of Ditto in Ditto
To Majr Junifer's 5th dividend of one share paid to the treasurer by me
6.0.0
To my expences incurred in a trip to the falls of the Shannandoah on the business of the Coy
269
To expences in Alexandria at a meeting of the Directors of the Compy
270
To Mr Willm Hartshorne pd him for my sixth Dividend on 5 Shares @ £6.10.[0] Sterling each
32.10.0
258
To Ditto pd him by Mr Battaile Muse on my Acct my seventh Dividend on 5 Shares @ 5 £ sterling each
25.0.0
273
To my Expences at George Town attending a meeting of the Directors
277
To Mr Gurdin Chapin pd him for Mr William Hartshorne my eighth & ninth Dividend on 5 Shares
312
To Wm Hartshorne (treasurer) pd him the 10th Call on 5 Shares £50. Sterlg Int. from 1st Novr 1790 to 17th Septr 1792. £4.13.31/4. Exchge 331/3 £18.4.5.
344
To Do pd Gurden Chapin for him the 11th Call on 5 Shares
346
Contra Cr
By Amount of my 5 Shares at £100 Str: each
Sterling 500.[0].[0]
By Cash recd of the Treasurer
By Majr Junifer for his 5th dividend on one share put into my hands in Philadelphia
6.[0].[0]
This acct settled by my payment of the several Instalments of one hundred pounds Sterlg on each Share—