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Account - D.S. 1 page. Account from Oct. 1786-May 1789 amounting to £11.0.4 for iron work, shoeing wheels, ox chains, repairing old stock bands, etc. Credit given of £7.18.0 for 39 1/2 baskets of wheat. Document signed, badly charred, laminated, docketed "Acct. Mr. J. Hill for Mrs. Washington".Account sworn to on Aug. 13, 1790 by Chas. C[aller ?] and receipted by Abner Vernon.

A.D. 11 pages. Lawrence Lewis's account of moneys received and expended from G.W.'s death to 1802, including am't of cash in house at G.W.'s death, amt. pd. doctors, money spent for cake at G.W.'s funeral, expenses on his houses in Washington, taxes, payment of legacies, building vault, for whiskey furnished at sale at Mount Vernon; money received from purchases at sales was main income during the period. Autograph document, copy, docketed, in hand of L. Lewis, laminated. Certified by Alexander Moore, Court Commissioner of Fairfax County, Va.

Day by day account in G.W.'s hand, of amt. and price of each item of food bought during the period--for month of June, no day by day account is included, but a total of each thing for 30 days of June.

"An Acct. of Mrs. Washington's Expences from Virginia to my Winter Quarters & back again to Virginia according to the Memms. and accts. which I have received from her & those who accompd. her"--expences amounting to £1064.1

Cost of things bought in Philadelphia by Mrs. Washington

D. 1 page. Account from July 1789 for "Visiting Mrs. W. Examining a Cancer and Consultation with Dr. Hall - £2.2.0." Document, fragment, badly charred, laminated, docketed "Dr. R. Wellford Acct and [ ]," incomplete watermark. Proved before magistrate, Geo. French, on Aug. 19, 1790. Receipted on reverse Sept. 13, 1790 from Mrs. Lewis. Signed by Wm. Yates for Robt. Wellford.

Autograph document, 7 pages. In hand of Albin Rawlins, an account of articles sold at the July 21st sale on six months credit (See "Book of Sales and of Mount Vernon Property"). This appears to be a rough draft (made at the time of auction) of the list entered in this executors' account book -- Rawlins' list gives name of purchaser, item and price; sale of chariot and harness, coachee, horses, clover machine, sheep, bulls, cows, calves, steers, marquee, tents, saddles, canteen, tin machine, saws and other tools, malt mill, "The Knight of Malta," reams of paper, wax, French horn, pump, locks, tool chest, hoes, sheet copper, old iron, rope, etc., copying press, yawl [an incomplete summary of the contents]. On last sheet are lists of names and figures, probably a scratch sheet. Autograph document, in hand of A. Rawlins, laminated. This doc. is NOT part of the "Book of Sales of Mt. V. Prop." but a separate doc.

A.D. 4 pages. "Accot. of sales of the Stocks etc. sold at the plantation of the late Mrs. Mary Washington, on the 29th of October 1789." Some of the buyers include Charles Carter Jr., Bushrod Washington and Burges[s] Ball. Stock sold includes sheep, oxen, hogs, pigs, horses, cows. Autograph document, docketed.

D. 2 pages. Account - Mary Washington with Dekar, Thompson, and Cox. Purchases of supplies including food, cloth, and housewares. Torn and charred, laminated.

D.S. 2 pages. Document signed, fragment, laminated, torn and charred scrap of paper. Account from May 3-July 30, 1765, for snuff, Irish l[inen], silk hat, fann, etc. Account signed by [Ja]mes Buchanan.