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Four receipts signed by Davenport (George Washington's miller) from the Mill. An accompanying docket refers to these receipts as "Accounts of Corn and Meal delivered out of the Mill for and by the orders of G[eorge] A[ugustine] W[ashingto]n...125 Bushels Corn." Four documents signed. Name on original manuscript appears as "Jos. Davenport."

A.D. 1 page.

D.S. 2 pages. Washington relinquishes a former contract in which Tiffin leased Washington's land for 30 lbs. per year. Tiffin agrees to "... surrender possession [of the tract]--to give up all claim to the wheat now growing on the plantation and to put in all the ground now in Buck wheat and some small spots adjoining in potatoes and Hemp with Rye ..." Memorandum of an agreement. Signed by Peter Cockrell, for George Augustine Washington.

A.D.S. 1 page. Budd agrees to rent from Washington "the House he now occupies-- my property in Alexandria" for forty shillings/month. Agreement in force from October 1, 1791, to April 1, 1792.

A.D.S. 1 page. Saurason obligates himself to sell Washington his lot "... 40 feet on Duke street and 70 on St. Asap[h]" for seventy five pounds Virginia Currency. This lot is "... subject to a ground rent of twenty five Shillings..." The agreement is subject to Washington's procuring another lot from Thorton Alexander.

D.S. Simpson leases Washington's "... fishing landing called Simpsons during the Herring season [for] twelve pounds specie ... also six thousand herrings." Simpson also agrees to "... not permit a horse Waggon Cart or any other Carriage to come within his plantation for the removal of the fish ..." Document signed, [in pencil "William Simpson"].

A.D.S. 1 page. Appointed by P. Wagener. Washington is appointed surveyor "... of the road from General Washington's ferry to his Mill, from thence to his tumbling dam, thence along his new road to intersect the River side old road above the Gumspring ..." and is to use "the male labouring Tithables" on George Washington's plantation to keep the road in good repair.

D.S. 2 pages. Washington agrees to continue leasing a tract of land in Berkeley County "adjoining the Town of Charles Town for and during the Term of one Year ..." i.e. Dec. 25, 1787 to Dec. 25, 1788. Whiting shall pay required land tax and "Forty Pounds Spacie, Virginia Currency, ..." to Washington.

A.D.S. 2 pages, docketed. Agreement for Peter Cockrell to work for George A. Washington for one year. Signed by Peter Cockrell and J. Packett.

D.S. 3 pages. Agreement for Washington to pay Cockrell one-seventh of the crop yield for acting as overseer "on his plantation in Berk[e]ley County which will be formed of that which he now occupies and that which Doct. Tiffin resides ..." Cockrell to care for Negroes, stock, and tools on plantation. Witnessed by Samuel Washington.