4 To Eight hooks @ 7½ 0 5 0 15 To 2 Keys prs locks @ 3/9 0 7 6 To a Box prs do 0 1 6 1773 Country Dr Apr 25 To half a Year Salary as Armourer to the Magazine £10 1760 Collo Custis Estate to Thos Pate Dr. Feb. 11 To lenthening a Chain and mending a Bed pin for £0 3 0 Cart To altering a Sett of Clamps Do 0 2 6 19 To Pointing a Plough 0 2 6 22 To Making a Screw key for the mill 0 2 6 23 To Mending 2 Keys for Locks 0 2 6 27 To Making 2 Bed pins and 2 Linch pins for Cart 0 6 3 To making Cleavey and Pin Do 0 3 9 To making Iron work for a Ox yoke 0 5 0 March 5 To Making a Ox Chain 0 10 6 To making Iron Work for a Ox Yoke 0 3 9 11 To Altering 3 Mill Hoops 0 3 9 April 4 To mending a Lock and Key 0 2 0 26 To Altring a Mill Spindle 0 5 0 May 1 To Pointing a fluke hoe 0 2 6 2 To Making 2 Wedges for the Mill 0 2 6 7 To Mending a Sane 0 1 3 30 To Pointing a fluke hoe 0 2 6 June 3 To Dressing 3 mill Peaks and Lengthening a crane 0 5 0 30 To Pointing a fluke hoe 0 2 6 July 5 To Making a Hoope for Mill 10 pounds 0 7 8 To making 2 Wedges Do 0 2 6 11 To mending a Broad Ax 0 1 3 24 To mending a Key for a Lock 0 0 7½ Novm 17 To making a box for a whip saw 0 3 9 1761 Feb. 3 To making 2 peed pins for Small Cart 0 2 6 9 To Mending a Lock 0 1 3 It will be noticed that Pate made or repaired several items “for the mill.” No doubt this was the windmill shown on the “Frenchman’s Map” of 1782 as standing on or near Custis’s property to the south of town. The millwright, the wheelwright, the coachmaker, and the shipwright all depended heavily on the blacksmith to produce essential parts of their respective products. The builder of houses, too, could do little without the nails and the tools that came from the local smithy.