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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
Primary Collecting Areas:
George and Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, Founding Era and Early Republic, Historic preservation, Decorative arts, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Description:

The Fred W. Smith National Library includes general collections, special collections and archives as a resource for scholars, students, and those interested in George Washington, colonial America and the Revolutionary and founding eras.

The library's general collections include secondary source materials on the Washington and Custis families, and the colonial and founding eras.

The Special Collections materials highlight the lives of George and Martha Washington as well as their descendants through correspondence, financial materials, and original books from George and Martha Washington's library.

The archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association holds the historic institutional records of the organization dating back to its founding in 1853.

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Phone: (703) 780-3600
Start Over Repository The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Creator Washington, George Augustine, approximately 1759-1793

Account, Joseph Davenport with George Augustine Washington Box 13, Folder 1788.06.00

Four receipts signed by Davenport (George Washington's miller) from the Mill. An accompanying docket refers to these receipts as "Accounts of Corn and Meal delivered out of the Mill for and by the orders of G[eorge] A[ugustine] W[ashingto]n...125 Bushels Corn." Four documents signed. Name on original manuscript appears as "Jos. Davenport."

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 13

Agreement, George Augustine Washington and Edward Tiffin Box 20, Folder 1791.09.15

D.S. 2 pages. Washington relinquishes a former contract in which Tiffin leased Washington's land for 30 lbs. per year. Tiffin agrees to "... surrender possession [of the tract]--to give up all claim to the wheat now growing on the plantation and to put in all the ground now in Buck wheat and some small spots adjoining in potatoes and Hemp with Rye ..." Memorandum of an agreement. Signed by Peter Cockrell, for George Augustine Washington.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 20

Agreement, James Saurason with George Augustine Washington Box 15, Folder 1789.07.20

A.D.S. 1 page. Saurason obligates himself to sell Washington his lot "... 40 feet on Duke street and 70 on St. Asap[h]" for seventy five pounds Virginia Currency. This lot is "... subject to a ground rent of twenty five Shillings..." The agreement is subject to Washington's procuring another lot from Thorton Alexander.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 15

Agreement, William Simpson with George Augustine Washington Box 17, Folder 1790.04.05

D.S. Simpson leases Washington's "... fishing landing called Simpsons during the Herring season [for] twelve pounds specie ... also six thousand herrings." Simpson also agrees to "... not permit a horse Waggon Cart or any other Carriage to come within his plantation for the removal of the fish ..." Document signed, [in pencil "William Simpson"].

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 17

Appointment as surveyor, George Augustine Washington Box 15, Folder 1789.09.00

A.D.S. 1 page. Appointed by P. Wagener. Washington is appointed surveyor "... of the road from General Washington's ferry to his Mill, from thence to his tumbling dam, thence along his new road to intersect the River side old road above the Gumspring ..." and is to use "the male labouring Tithables" on George Washington's plantation to keep the road in good repair.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 15

Articles of agreement, George Augustine Washington and Matthew Whiting Box 12, Folder 1787.11.03

D.S. 2 pages. Washington agrees to continue leasing a tract of land in Berkeley County "adjoining the Town of Charles Town for and during the Term of one Year ..." i.e. Dec. 25, 1787 to Dec. 25, 1788. Whiting shall pay required land tax and "Forty Pounds Spacie, Virginia Currency, ..." to Washington.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 12

Articles of agreement, George Augustine Washington and Peter Cockrell Box 20, Folder 1791.09.15

D.S. 3 pages. Agreement for Washington to pay Cockrell one-seventh of the crop yield for acting as overseer "on his plantation in Berk[e]ley County which will be formed of that which he now occupies and that which Doct. Tiffin resides ..." Cockrell to care for Negroes, stock, and tools on plantation. Witnessed by Samuel Washington.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 20

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