Papers of John Adams, volume 5

387 image Enclosure: Account of Adams’s Expenses: State of Massachusetts Bay to John Adams, 9 January 1777 – 15 January 1778 JA Massachusetts General Court Enclosure: Account of Adams’s Expenses: State of Massachusetts Bay to John Adams, 9 January 1777 – 15 January 1778 Adams, John Massachusetts General Court

Enclosure: Account of Adams's Expenses: State of Massachusetts Bay to John Adams

State of Massachusetts Bay to John Adams
			Dr.
		£	s	d
1777	To Cash Spent from my leaving Home the 9. Jany. 1777 to my Return 27. Novr 1777 exclusive of every Article of Cloathing and exclusive of a Bll flour sent to my family from Baltimore.	312:	14:	0
	To Cash paid my servant for Wages and Expences, by Mrs. Adams	7:	16:	8
	To Cash due to Mr. Sprout for Board one Week at £4 Pen. currency	3:	4:	0
	To Cash due to Mr. Smith for his Account	1:	12:	0
	To Cash due to Mr. Fox for shoeing my Horse	1:	4:	0
	These accounts were left unpaid, by our sudden Departure from Philadelphia, but I have given orders for the Payment of them.
	To the Hire of two Horses, for the Year	80——
	To my own Time 322 days a 24/	386:	8——
		792:	18:	8
			Cr.
1777	Jany. By a Grant, of Money, by the Honourable the General Court, received by me of the Treasurer	150:	0:	0
	By Cash received of Mr. Gibson Auditor General of the Continental Treasury, in Part of a Note of Hand to the Honourable Mr. Hancock.	300:	0:	0
		450:	0:	0
	Ballance due	342:	18:	81
		792:	18:	8

The content of all or some notes that appeared on page 388 in the printed volume has been moved to the end of the preceding document

RC (NN:Emmet Coll.); docketed: “Jno. Adams Esqr. Petition & Accots.”

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This amount was accepted by the General Court and payment to JA ordered (Mass., Province Laws , 20:261).