Lear, Tobias, and James Anderson. Mount Vernon Distillery and Fishery Ledger, 1799–1801. George Washington’s Mount Vernon. RM-929 and MS-5468. https://catalog.mountvernon.org/digital/collection/p16829coll11/id/256/.
Contemporaneous dated cash entry records payment to enslaved distillery workers for holiday labor; the annual distillery account repeats the charge.
Tobias Lear and James Anderson, Mount Vernon Distillery and Fishery Ledger, 1799–1801, ledger p. 42, December 25, 1799, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, RM-929 and MS-5468; see also the annual Distillery account, ledger p. 45.
Tobias Lear and James Anderson, Mount Vernon Distillery and Fishery Ledger, 1799–1801, ledger p. 42, entry for December 25, 1799, and ledger p. 45, annual Distillery account, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, RM-929 and MS-5468, https://catalog.mountvernon.org/digital/collection/p16829coll11/id/256/.
annual account at manuscript ledger p. 45; scan PDF p. 50; transcription PDF p. 51
manuscript ledger p. 42; scan PDF p. 47; transcription PDF p. 48
Lear and Anderson, Mount Vernon Distillery and Fishery Ledger, ledger pp. 42, 45.
Cash ledger, December 25, 1799; annual Distillery account
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