Ledger C, 1790 - 1799: pg.51
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Line 15 - In a letter of 18 Feb. 1799, the date of this transaction, GW sent Philadelphia merchant Clement Biddle $100 "to be placed" to GW's "Credit." The money was to pay Biddle's account for expenses he incurred in sending GW several items, including hats, shoes, grass seed, and a book case that had been manufactured in Philadelphia. GW had asked Biddle to procure these items and have them shipped to him. See GW to Clement Biddle, 18 Feb. 1799 [Rotunda | Founders Online | Print (Retirement Series, Vol. 3, page 386]; GW to Biddle, 20 Jan. 1799, and n.2 [Rotunda | Founders Online | Print (Retirement Series, Volume 3, pages 321-22)]; and Biddle to GW, 5 Feb. 1799 [Rotunda | Founders Online | Print (Retirement Series, Volume 3, pages 357-58)].
Line 18 - Eleanor Parke Custis (1779-1852), the daughter of John Parke Cusis and Eleanor Calvert Custis, married GW’s nephew Lawrence Lewis (1767-1839) at Mount Vernon on 22 Feb. 1799. GW wrote in his diary for that date: "The Revd. Mr. [Thomas] Davis & Mr. Geo. Calvert came to dinner & Miss Custis was married abt. Candle light to Mr. Lawe Lewis" (Diaries, 6:335). "Richd Burnet" may refer to Richard Burnet (also known by the name of Richard Burnet Walker), who had previously served as a housekeeper or butler at Mount Vernon, and who may have assisted with preparations for the wedding. See George Washington's Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799, n.27 [Rotunda | Founders Online | Print (Retirement Series, Volume 4, pages 477-511)].
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| Year | Month | Day | Account Name | Entry | $ | ¢ | ||||
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| 1 |
Dr Cash |
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| 2 | 1799 |
To Amount brought over |
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| 3 | Jany | 15 |
xTo my pay, subsistence & forage for the month of October recd by a warrant from the war office |
523 | 20 | |||||
| 4 | Feby | 25 |
To Mr Robt Lewis recd from him on acct of his collection of my Rents |
500 | “ |
| Year | Month | Day | Account Name | Entry | Page | $ | ¢ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Contra Cr |
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| 2 | 1799 |
By Amount brot over |
Folo |
D | C | ||||||||
| 3 | Jany | 12 |
By Exps to the Federal City |
6 | “ | ||||||||
| 4 | 18 |
By Charity |
1 | 50 | |||||||||
| 5 | 21 |
By Bennett & Watts pd them on acts |
111 | 4 | |||||||||
| 6 | “ |
By Sundries pd for <illegible> Miss Custis to wit - <messrs> Bennett & Watts acct |
£25.16.5 |
£ | |||||||||
| 7 |
J. Hooffmans acct |
9.3.0 |
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| 8 |
Ann Cazenove <a/c> |
2.15.6 |
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| 9 |
[Total] |
£37.14.11 |
£ | 125 | 82 | ||||||||
| 10 |
By Charity $2 Servts 50 Cents |
2 | 50 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Feby | 11 |
By Exps in Alexandria |
1 | 50 | ||||||||
| 12 | 12 |
By Miss Custis pd Mr Tracey on her acct |
8 | “ | |||||||||
| 13 | 16 |
By Overseer Davy gave him |
5 | “ | |||||||||
| 14 | “ |
By Tax on my property in the City of Washington |
90 | ||||||||||
| 15 | [*] | 18 |
By Colo. Biddle remitted to him |
100 | “ | ||||||||
| 16 | “ |
By Mrs Ann Gray pd her acct |
158 | 82 | |||||||||
| 17 | 20 |
By Mr Lawrence Lewis pd him for Sundries pd by him on my acts as pr Cash memorandum |
£14.10.2¼ |
48 | 35 | ||||||||
| 18 | [*] | 26 |
By Richd Burnet for Services at the wedding of Miss Custis |
20 | “ | ||||||||
| 19 | 27 |
By Mrs Washington |
2 | “ | |||||||||
| 20 | x | 28 |
By my Subscription to 4 Setts Belknaps Biography pd to Mr Herbert |
14 | “ | ||||||||
| 21 | Mch | 4 |
By Mrs L. Lewis pd Mrs Stedi<illegible> on her acct |
30 | |||||||||
| 22 | “ |
By my tax on lands in Kentuckey pd Colo. Thomas Marshals draught for the same in favor of Mr Raliegh Colston |
57 | 91 |