An Inventory of Articles at Mount Vernon

1810

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The whole number of negroes left by Genl. Washington in his own right are as follows:

40 Men
37 Women
4 Working boys
3 do Girls
40 children
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124 Total.

which Mrs. Washington intending to liberate at the end of the present Year, can only be valued for the Service of the Working Negroes for one year.

     
Amount brought forward...................................................................   $27,158.34
To this sum must be added the amount of the following Articles which were not extended in the Inventory when the foregoing was case up, To witt:
Books omitted and a Theodolite..........................		 $80  
Bank Stock, United States Stock, Potomac and James River Shares,.. $29.212  
Cash on Hand,............................................................................. 254.70  
Addition to Gold Buckles and Knee buckles,................................... 200.00  
Diamond Eagle,............................................................................ 387  
 
30,137.70
   
    $57,296.04

In odedience to the annexed Order of Court, we the Subscribers being duly sworn, having viewed and appraised all the personal Property of the late General Washington dee'd, which was presented to us for that purpose, agreeably to the foregoing Schedule.

THOMSON MASON
TOBIAS LEAR
THOMAS PETER
Wm. H. FOOTE

At a Court held for Fairfax County the 20th day of August, 1810.

This Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of George Washington deceased Returned and ordered to be Recorded.

Teste.
Wm. MOSS.
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From: Charles H. Callahan, Washington: The Man and the Mason, (Washington, D.C.: Memorial Temple Committee of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association, 1913), 363-64.