Ledger, Mount Vernon distillery and fishery ledger, 1799-1801

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Ledger, Mount Vernon distillery and fishery ledger, 1799-1801

1799-1801

https://archives.mountvernon.org/repositories/3/archival_objects/4939

In the handwriting of Tobias Lear (1762-1816), Washington's private secretary, and James Anderson, Mount Vernon's farm and subsequent distillery manager from 1797 to the time of Washington's death in 1799. Washington endorsed the ledger twice and approved accounts for fisheries, whiskey, shad, and herring.

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Joan, -approximately 1784

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Joan was enslaved by George Washington at Dogue Run Farm in Virginia, part of the Mount Vernon estate. She may have been married to Ben, with whom she had children. Joan's daughter Betty was referred to as Ben's Bett in 1799. She had three surviving children in 1786: Aggy, Simon, and Bett. She died between 1782 and 1786....

Ben, 1729?-

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Ben was enslaved by George Washington at Dogue Run Farm in Virginia, part of the Mount Vernon estate. He was a plougher. He was married to Peg and had three children. He was also married to Joan and had three grown children by 1786....