23 / 86
:*•") 1
Jloe Bon 'Vivant's Companion
23
30 gallons of strong beer at 8d. per gal
1.0
26 gallons best Barbadoes Rum at 5s.
6,10
12 lbs S Fefd sugar 1s. 6d.
18.9
3 gallons and 3 quarts of beer
at Is. per gal
3.9
10 bowls of Punch at 2s. 6d. each
1.50
6 half pints of Rum at 7Md. each
5.7.1
1 Pint of "Wine
1.6
After the eledtion was over,Washington wrote Wood
that " I hope no exception was taken to any that voted
for me, and that all were alike treated, and all had
enough. My only fear is that you spent with too spar
ing a hand."
Washington resigned his command December 23rd,
1783, and went back to Mount Vernon. To his friends
he offered unpretentious hospitality. "My manner of liv
ing is plain," he said. "A glass of wine, and a bit of
mutton are always ready, and such as will be content to
partake of them are always welcome."
Chief Justice Marshall
Chief Justice Marshall was brought up on Federalism
and Madeira, and he was not the man to outgrow his
early prejudices. The best Madeira in those days was la
beled "The Supreme Court."
Benjamin Sfranklin->
No one was better disposed towards a moderate con
viviality than Benjamin Franklin. In that old house on