Tabulated Statement of Household Expenses

This manuscript, in the handwriting of George Washington, documents the household expenses from May 24 to August 24, 1789, in New York City at the start of his first term as President of the United States. Included in the document are expenses for several "Negro servants" - including enslaved seventeen-year-old Ona Judge.

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Three stacked pages of an aged, handwritten document in a table format listing goods and their prices
Tabulated Statement of Household Expenses, 1789
George Washington Relics, New York State Library


 


 

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