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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 Date range 1790

Receipt, John Aston to Charles Carter, 1790 Box 19, Folder 1790.10.25

A.D.S. 1 page. Receipt for 115 barrels of corn "bot of Mr. Chas. Carter from Mrs. Washingtons Estate." Autograph document signed, fragment, laminated, signed by John Aston for Thos Gamill, re Mary Washington's estate.

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 19, 1790/1791

Receipts, Betty Washington Lewis, 1778/1795 Box 6, Folder 1778.00.00

Collection of receipts ranging from 1778-1795. Twenty-five items mostly relating to Betty Washington Lewis for the period of her widowhood. Includes payment for stockings, property taxes, her sons' tuition, linen, a copper kettle, and a statement of "Debt, interest and payments on two Bonds ... from John Wayman, Edward Snickers and William Brady to Col. Fielding Lewis." In Mylar enclosures.

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 6, 1778/1779

Receipt, Thomas Garnett to Betty Washington Lewis, 1790 Box 17, Folder 1790.02.01

Receipt for 18 shillings in account for Mrs. Betty Lewis, Subscribr. to Revd. Thomas Thornton for year 1789. Autograph document signed, 1 page, fragment, laminated, docketed "Thos. Garnett [ ] Rect. 18 /".

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 17, 1790

Rental account, George Washington, 1788/1790 Box 12, Folder 1788.00.00

A.D.S. 26 pages. A portion of an account book containing record of rentals due and accounts owed by "George Washington President of the United States."--the first 9 pp. (at least one missing) concern tenants living on the tract called "Asbeys Bend - under the Blue Ridge Part in Fauquier and Part in Loudoun"--lots are listed, tenant named, and an account given of what he owes and has paid--following pp. concern lands on Gooseneck Creek in Fauquier County and in Berkeley County and Frederick County.--then follow several pp. of "George Washington President of the United States in Acct. Current with B. Muse", concerning expenses and collections, legal in nature in connection with the foregoing lands and tenants. Autograph document signed, in hand of Battaile Muse, 2 blank pages, silked.

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 12, 1787/1788

Restoration Files for the Historic Structures Report, 1750/2005 14 Cubic Feet 13 cartons, 2 Hollinger boxes

This collection contains original records and photocopied documentation that was compiled in the early 1990s to provide necessary assistance for the preparation of the Historic Structures Report. Original materials include correspondence of Mount Vernon Superintendents, employees, and Vice Regents, accounts and financial documents, reports, photographs, and architectural drawings. Photocopied or printed documents were taken from ledgers, accounts, and correspondence of George Washington and his staff, published primary and secondary sources, and MVLA reports. The dates of original materials range from the 1860s to 2005, however, the date range of information from the files is from the 1750s to 2005.

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