Credit Side Annotation
Line 14 - In the fall of 1789, GW had asked Gouverneur Morris, who was in France at the time on business matters, to procure for him plated ware and other ornaments for a dining table, and to draw upon the London firm of Wakelin Welch & Son, which would extend credit to cover Morris's purchases. A letter that Wakelin Welch & Son wrote GW on 22 June 1790 indicates, as does the account here, that GW's purchases amounted to £91, which the firm had advanced to Morris. That letter reads in part: "[. . .] Mr Morris drew on us for £91. which is all he says that he may want". See GW to Gouverneur Morris, 13 Oct. 1789, and n.2 to that document [Rotunda | Founders Online | Print (Presidential Series, Volume 4, pages 176-79)]; Wakelin Welch & Son to GW, 22 June 1790 [Rotunda | Founders Online | Print (Presidential Series, Volume 5, page 548)].
Messrs Porter & Ingraham Dr
To Cash to pay freight per Captn Ellwood (a light Guinea)
270
To Cash pd you by Mr Lear 20 oz. 1 gn Gold
277
Balance as per Contra
[Total]
To 5 Hhds Tobacco—Marks, numbers & wts as follow—
To 80 barrels of Burr flour @ 24/2
Messrs Wakelin Welch & Son Dr
To a balance in your hands as per your acct rendered in August 22d 1788
Sterling £202.5s.0d.
To a bill of Exchange on Mess. Phyn Ellis & Co. put into your hands by Colo. Humphreys
60.0.0
£262.5.0
Contra Cr
By the Amount of Your Acct this day rendered in
By Balance due you as per Acct rendered in
By Jarrs of Raisins deld in July last & not chd above
By settlement of this acct
By Exchange in favor of G. Morris Esqr.
Sterling 26.5.0
By freight of a box of Books shipped in the Cruger—Talbot p. N. York
0.10.6
By Postage of letters & carrying of Candel p. N. York
0.13.3
By Fenwick & Mason's Exchage for wines
49.0.3
By Cost & Charges of a Terrest[r]ial Globe
28.19.0
By Commisss. on paying bill & postage <of> letters
1.1.0
By Cash pd G. Morris Esqr. on Acct of Sunds. bot by him in France on my Act (<for> Mr M. <bill>)
91.0.0
By Negociating bills value £140
0.16.5
By Messs. Fenwick, Mason & Co. exchange for wines
20.13.7
By Sundy charges shipping a case for N. Yk
0.16.6
By Mr G. Morris pd him on my Acct
42.9.6