Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1902 — Washington Was Wealthy. [ARTICLE]

Washington Was Wealthy.

One is not apt in these days to remember that in this early- period Washington made himself one of the largest landholders in the country, nor that when he died he was worth over half a million dollars. Yet we find that he bequeathed to his heirs the following acreage, with values attached: Acres. Worth. | Acres. Worth SOO | 6.6C01 400 1 20,010 2,481 24,810 9.744 97,444 885 7,080 23,341 200,00< 2,230 44,720 1,119 9,32| 571 11,420 234 1,404 240 3,000 1,000 6,004 400 3,600 8,051 15,251 1,119 2,984 5,000 10,006 Ixind in Washington worth $19,132, and other lands not enumerated worth $0,200. The total value of his estate was placed at $530,000. The 300 acres of Virginia land, which he valued at $0,660 in 1799, sold in 1859 for $120,000, one evidence of the changes in values in that country he served so well. Even the marriage of Washington was consistent with the thrifty habits that marked all his doings. The widow Cuetie added to his estate SIOO,OOO, besides giving him a helpmeet just as prudent in her financial transactions as was he. After the marriage, and their settlement at Mount Vernon, "nine miles from any church” or social habiatlon, Washington gave himself wholly to tilling of the soil and quiet service in the Virginia Legislature.