One at Ferry has not done one days work these 18 Months.

2 at Muddy hole one a horse with the Pole evil which I think will not get well the other an Old Mare was not capable of work last summer.

Likewise the Horse called old Chatham and the Lame Horse that used to go in the Waggon now in a one horse Cart.

If any thing could be Got for them it might be well but they are not worth keeping after Christmas." No doubt a sentimental person would say that Washington ought to have kept these old servants, but he had many other superannuated servants of the human kind upon his hands, so he replied that Whiting might dispose of the old horses "as you judge best for my interest." Now and then his horses met with accidents.

Thus on February 22, 1760, his horse "Jolly" got his right foreleg "mashed to pieces," probably by a falling limb.