Title: [Diary entry: 1 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

March 1st. At home all day—in Company with Mr. Willis, Mr. Warner Washington & my Bro. Saml.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. Set of for Williamsburg abt. 8 Oclock. Dined at Portobacco & Lodged at Laidlers.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. Breakfasted at Port Royal, & Supped and Lodged at Todds Bridge.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Dined at Doncastles, and got to Williamsburg abt. half an hour by Sun. Lodgd at Mr. Charltons, spending the Eveng. in my own Room alone.


Title: [Diary entry: 6 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

6. Dined at the Treasurers & Spent the Evening at Mrs. Campbell’s.


Title: [Diary entry: 7 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

7. Dined at the Governors and Spent the Evening at Mrs. Campbells.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 8. Dined, and Spent the Evening at Mrs. Campbells.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Dined at the Attorneys and Spent the Evening in my own Room Writing.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10th. Dined at Mrs. Campbells and Spent the Evening there also.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. Did the same.


Title: [Diary entry: 13 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

13. Dined no where but reachd Colo. Bassetts in the Afternoon on my return home.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Set off about 10 Oclock. Dind at King William Court House and lodgd at Todds Bridge.


Title: [Diary entry: 16 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

16. Breakfasted in Port Tobacco & reachd home abt. 4 Oclock in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Ditto—Ditto. Except Riding to Muddy hole & the Plantation in the Neck & to sheridines Point where my People were clearing a fishing Landing.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 19. Went a hunting. Found a Fox by Muddy hole Plantation and killd it after a chase of two hours & 3 Quarters.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. At Home all day alone.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. At Home this day also—alone.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. At home with those Gentlemen til the Evening when we went to Mr. Digges’s again. Mr. Ben. Dulany also Dind with us.


Title: [Diary entry: 25 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

25. At Mr. Digges’s all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

27. Returnd home to Breakfast. Mr. Loyd Dulany, and Mr. Geo. Digges with me, at home all the remaining part of the Day.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29. Went a hunting with those Gentlemen. Found a Fox by Thos. Baileys & had it killd by Cur Dogs in half an hour. Retd. to Dinner Mr. Manley with us.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30. Went a hunting again. Found Nothing. Colo. Fairfax & Mr. Lan. Lee—also Mr. Herbert & Mr. Miller Dined here, the last two stayd all Night.


Title: [March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

March 1st. At home all day—in Company with Mr. Willis, Mr. Warner Washington & my Bro. Saml.

2. Set of for Williamsburg abt. 8 Oclock. Dined at Portobacco & Lodged at Laidlers.

   Governor Dunmore had summoned the General Assembly to meet in Williamsburg beginning 4 Mar. to deal with problems resulting from a flood of bogus money that had been loosed on the colony by a counterfeiting ring in Pittsylvania County (JHBH. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15., 1773–76, 6–7; FREEMANDouglas Southall Freeman. George Washington: A Biography. 7 vols. New York, 1948–57., 3:309–11).

3. Breakfasted at Port Royal, & Supped and Lodged at Todds Bridge.

   In Port Royal, GW patronized the tavern run by William Buckner (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 82; CAMPBELL [1]Thomas Elliott Campbell. Colonial Caroline: A History of Caroline County, Virginia. Richmond, 1954., 219, 413).

4. Dined at Doncastles, and got to Williamsburg abt. half an hour by Sun. Lodgd at Mr. Charltons, spending the Eveng. in my own Room alone.

   In Dec. 1775 Thomas Doncastle described his tavern as “the noted and well accustomed tavern in James City County, about 15 Miles from Williamsburg, on the main Road from said City to New Kent Courthouse, Ruffin’s Ferry, and the Brickhouse Ferry” (Va. Gaz., D&H, 30 Dec. 1775). GW today used Ruffin’s ferry to cross the Pamunkey River (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 82).

5. Dined at the Speakers & Spent the Evening there also.

   In the House of Burgesses today, GW was appointed to the standing committee of privileges and elections (JHBH. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15., 1773–76, 10).

6. Dined at the Treasurers & Spent the Evening at Mrs. Campbell’s.

7. Dined at the Governors and Spent the Evening at Mrs. Campbells.

   GW and Governor Dunmore were planning a trip sometime in the summer to inspect western lands in the Ohio Valley (FREEMANDouglas Southall Freeman. George Washington: A Biography. 7 vols. New York, 1948–57., 3:317). The House of Burgesses did not meet today, Sunday (JHBH. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15., 1773–76, 13).

8. Dined, and Spent the Evening at Mrs. Campbells.

9. Dined at the Attorneys and Spent the Evening in my own Room Writing.

10th. Dined at Mrs. Campbells and Spent the Evening there also.

11. Dined and Spent the Evening in the Club Room at Mrs. Campbells.

12. Did the same.

   After passing an act authorizing new treasury notes to replace the colony’s current compromised ones, the House of Burgesses today turned its attention to what it perceived as increasing British encroachments upon both English liberty and colonial rights (JHBH. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15., 1773–76, 26–28). A group of younger burgesses, including Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Richard Henry Lee, proposed that the house create a committee of correspondence, whose “first measure would be to propose a meeting of deputies from every colony at some central place,” as Jefferson later recalled (JEFFERSON [2]Paul Leicester Ford, ed. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. 10 vols. New York and London, 1892–99., 1:8). Sitting as a committee of the whole house, the burgesses drafted a resolution authorizing and appointing an 11–member committee of correspondence and then passed it in open session without dissent (JHBH. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15., 1773–76, 28). GW was not a member of the committee of correspondence.

13. Dined no where but reachd Colo. Bassetts in the Afternoon on my return home.

   On this Saturday the burgesses passed an act making it a felony to counterfeit paper money of other British colonies, but the General Assembly did not finish its business until the following Monday, when it was prorogued by the governor (JHBH. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15., 1773–76, 31–36; HENINGWilliam Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. 13 vols. 1819–23. Reprint. Charlottesville, Va., 1969., 8:651–52).

14. Set off about 10 Oclock. Dind at King William Court House and lodgd at Todds Bridge.

15. Breakfasted at Port Royal about 12 Oclock, and lodgd at Mr. Lawe. Washingtons.

16. Breakfasted in Port Tobacco & reachd home abt. 4 Oclock in the Afternoon.

17. At home all day alone.

18. Ditto—Ditto. Except Riding to Muddy hole & the Plantation in the Neck & to sheridines Point where my People were clearing a fishing Landing.

19. Went a hunting. Found a Fox by Muddy hole Plantation and killd it after a chase of two hours & 3 Quarters.

20. Rid to the Ferry, Mill & Doeg Run Plantations—also to the Mill.

21. At Home all day alone.

22. At Home this day also—alone.

23. Went over to Mr. Wm. Digges’s to Dinner, to Meet Govr. Eden who with Mr. Calvert Mr. Digges, Mr. Geo. Digges & Mr. Custis returnd with me. Found Mr. Loyd Dulany here.

   GW wrote James Tilghman, Jr., in Alexandria, “I expect Govr. Eden, and some Gentlemen from Maryland here this afternoon. If you are disengaged, I should be glad if you would come down & stay with us a day or two, or as long as they remain” (23 Mar. 1773, NjMoHP).

24. At home with those Gentlemen til the Evening when we went to Mr. Digges’s again. Mr. Ben. Dulany also Dind with us.

25. At Mr. Digges’s all day.

26. Ditto—Ditto.

27. Returnd home to Breakfast. Mr. Loyd Dulany, and Mr. Geo. Digges with me, at home all the remaining part of the Day.

28th. Went with Mr. Dulany, and Mr. Digges, &ca. to Dine with Mr. Benj. Dulany at Mrs. Frenchs. Returnd again in the Afternoon.

29. Went a hunting with those Gentlemen. Found a Fox by Thos. Baileys & had it killd by Cur Dogs in half an hour. Retd. to Dinner Mr. Manley with us.

   Thomas Bailey had worked on GW’s millrace in 1770. He also bought corn from GW and had some work done at the Mount Vernon blacksmith shop (General Ledger AGeneral Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 130).

30. Went a hunting again. Found Nothing. Colo. Fairfax & Mr. Lan. Lee—also Mr. Herbert & Mr. Miller Dined here, the last two stayd all Night.

   Lancelot Lee was George William Fairfax’s nephew, the son of his sister Ann Fairfax Washington Lee by her second husband, George Lee of Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County. mr. miller: William Milnor, a Philadelphia merchant who had business connections with William Herbert and was interested in buying fish from GW.

31. Mr. Herbert & Mr. Milner, also Mr. Digges went away before Breakfast—Mr. Dulany continuing.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

March 1st. Snowing all the forenoon—Wind being at No. East, which shifting to the No. West blew hard and dispeld the Clouds.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. Ground a little froze. Day clear & pleasant with but little Wind & that Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. A little Raw in the morning, & Cool, tho’ the Wind continued in the same place. Afternoon Muddy & like for falling weather.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Wind fresh from the Northward & Snowing till about 10 Oclock. Afterwards clear, & more moderate, Morning being very Cold & disagreeable.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Wind Westerly, Clear, & tolerably pleasant—but Cool.


Title: [Diary entry: 6 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

6. Lowering and like for falling Weather all day. In the Night Rain.


Title: [Diary entry: 7 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

7. Close & heavy Morning—but no Rain. Afternoon clear & pleasant with but little wind.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Lowering Morning & Rainy day. Wind Easterly but not Cold.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10th. Heavy & Cloudy all day, & sometimes a little Rain.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. Very pleasant, being Calm clear & warm especially in the Morning.


Title: [Diary entry: 13 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 13. Raw & Cool with the Wind Easterly and cloudy withal.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Raining & Snowing till abt. 10 Oclock a good deal of the former having fallen in the Night. Wind Northerly and Cold.


Title: [Diary entry: 16 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

16. More or less Cloudy all day with the Wind about So. Et. and South.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17th. A good deal of Rain fell last Night. This day variable with some Rain. At length the Wind came to No. Wt. & blew hard.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Clear & somewhat Cool. Wind blowing hard at No. West till the Evening when it turnd Calm.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. Very pleasant—calm & clear in the forenoon—a little Wind from the Southward in the Afternn.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. Clear and pleasant with very little Wind, and that Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. Calm, and Clear in the forenoon—lowering afterwards with the Wind at No. East and pretty fresh.


Title: [Diary entry: 25 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

25th. The Wind having shifted in the Night to No. and No. Westerly, their came on a Most violent Storm, attended with much rain, which did inconceivable damage by the freshes—Many Houses Trees &ca. being blown down. This Storm of Wind & Rain continued with little abatement all this day likewise.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. Raining ceasd, but the Wind continued to blow very hard at No. West, till Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 27. Wind still at No. West, but not much of it. Weather Clear and pleasant.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29. Clear, Calm, and very Warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 March 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30. Lowering all day with some Rain about Noon—the Wind being pretty fresh from the Southward.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

April 1st. Rid to my Mill, and Plantations on this side the Creek. Mr. Dulany went away after Breakfast & Colo. Frans. Thornton & his Son came to Dinner & stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. They with myself &ca. went up to Alexandria to the Genl. Muster & returnd in the Afternoon. One old Wilper came here to Dinner.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. Colo. Thornton & Son went away after Breakfast. Mr. Custis also returnd to Maryld.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Mrs. Fairfax and Polly Brazier Dined here, as did Majr. Wagener. The latter stayd all Night. Mr. Jno. Baylor came in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. At home all day, Majr. Wagener contd. till the Afternoon—Mr. Baylor all day & Night. Mr. Campbell and Captn. ⟨ ⟩ of the Brig Nancy Dind here.


Title: [Diary entry: 6 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

6. Mr. Baylor went away after Breakfast. The Captn. Dined here again & Mr. Campbell lodgd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 7 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

7th. Mr. Herbert, Doctr. Rumney & the Captn. Dined here the Doctr. staying all Night. I went into the Neck this day.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. At home all day. The Capt. Dined here—otherwise alone.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10. At home all day alone. Mr. Custis came in the afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. Set of for Annapolis with Mr. Custis. Dined & lodgd at Mr. Bouchers with Govr. Eden & others.


Title: [Diary entry: 13 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

13. Got to Annapolis. Dind & lodgd at the Governors—where I also Supped.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Dined and Suppd at Mr. Loyd Dulany’s. Lodgd at the Govrs.


Title: [Diary entry: 16 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

16. Dined and Supped at Mr. Danl. Dulany’s. Lodgd at the Govrs.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17. Left Annapolis. Dined & lodgd at Mr. Calverts.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Reachd home to Dinner after passing through Piscataway Town.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. At home all day alone except Mr. Smith (manager of Messrs. Herberts &ca. fishery) who stays here.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. Dined at Belvoir with Mrs. Washington & Patcy Custis. Returnd in the Afternoon & found Mr. Tilghman, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Robt. Adam & his Nephew as also David Arrell. All of whom Stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. Mr. Adam & Nephew went away after breakfast. The rest stayd to Dinner & all Night. Mr. Robt. Brent came to Dinner & stayd the Evening.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 22. All went away before breakfast. I rid into the Neck after it.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. Rid to Doeg Run & Mill. Mr. W. Washington & Lady came to Dinner & stayd the Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. Lord Fairfax & Colo. Fairfax—Mr. Calvert, his Lady & two Daughters, & Mr. Geo. Digges & sister Teresa dind here. The two first went away—the others contd.


Title: [Diary entry: 25 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

25. At home all day with the above Company.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. Went with Mr. Calvert &ca. to the Fishing Landing at the Ferry. Found Doctr. Digges Mr. Tilghman & Mr. Fitzgerald here upon our return who Dind & stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

27. At home all day with the above Company. Mrs. Calvert Mrs. Washington & my wife went to hear Mrs. Masons Funeral Serm.


Title: [Diary entry: 28 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

28. Mr. Calverts Family, Mr. Washingtons, & the other Company all went away after Breakfast. I contd. at home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29. Rid into the Neck, & from thence went to Sheridines Point attempting to clear it for the Sein.


Title: [April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

April 1st. Rid to my Mill, and Plantations on this side the Creek. Mr. Dulany went away after Breakfast & Colo. Frans. Thornton & his Son came to Dinner & stayd all Night.

   Col. Francis Thornton was probably Francis Thornton (d. 1784) of Society Hill, King George County. He was a justice of the peace, colonel of the county militia, and a well-known breeder of horses. He had married Sarah Fitzhugh in 1747 and had two sons, John and William.

2. They with myself &ca. went up to Alexandria to the Genl. Muster & returnd in the Afternoon. One old Wilper came here to Dinner.

   John David Woelpper (Wilper), born in Germany, was living in or near Philadelphia at this time. Now about 64 years old, he was asking GW for advice regarding a land grant for his service as a sergeant in GW’s Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War. GW went out of his way to help Woelpper, and the old sergeant returned the favor by giving GW advice on bringing Germans to America to be settled on GW’s Ohio Valley lands (see GW to William Milnor, 23 Jan. 1775, DLC:GW; Woelpper to GW, 23 Mar. 1774, DLC:GW).

3. Colo. Thornton & Son went away after Breakfast. Mr. Custis also returnd to Maryld.

   Jacky Custis probably carried with him a letter which GW wrote to Benedict Calvert on this date. Having just been apprised that Jacky had contracted a secret engagement to Calvert’s daughter Eleanor (Nelly), GW wrote Calvert his feelings on the matter: “I am now set down to write to you on a Subject

of Importance, & of no small embarrassment to me. My Son in Law [stepson] & Ward, Mr. Custis, has, as I have been informd, paid his Addresses to your Second Daughter, & having made some progress in her Affections required her in Marriage.” He then expressed his approval of Nelly, but added firmly that Jacky was too young and inexperienced for marriage and needed to complete his education. “Delivering my Sentiments thus, will not, I hope, lead you into a belief that I am desirous of breaking of the Match—to postpone it, is all I have in view; for I shall recommend it to the young Gentleman with the warmth that becomes a Man of honour (notwithstanding he did not vouchsafe to consult either his Mother, or me, on the occasion) to consider himself as much engaged to your Daughter as if the indissoluble Knot was tied; and as the surest means of effecting this, to stick close to his Studies (in which I flatter myself you will join me) by which he will, in a great measure, avoid those little Flirtations with other Girls which may, by dividing the Attention, contribute not a little to divide the Affection” (DLC:GW).

4. Mrs. Fairfax and Polly Brazier Dined here, as did Majr. Wagener. The latter stayd all Night. Mr. Jno. Baylor came in the Afternoon.

5. At home all day, Majr. Wagener contd. till the Afternoon—Mr. Baylor all day & Night. Mr. Campbell and Captn. ⟨ ⟩ of the Brig Nancy Dind here.

   brig nancy: This brig was probably from the West Indies, and seems to have been tied up at GW’s dock for at least five days. On 8 April GW bought a parrot for 6s., probably from the captain of the Nancy (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 88). The brigantine Nancy, Capt. John Cox, master, which sold a barrel of flour to Lund Washington on 12 May may have been the same vessel (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 140).

6. Mr. Baylor went away after Breakfast. The Captn. Dined here again & Mr. Campbell lodgd all Night.

7th. Mr. Herbert, Doctr. Rumney & the Captn. Dined here the Doctr. staying all Night. I went into the Neck this day.

8. The Doctr. went away after Breakfast. The Captn. Dind here.

9. At home all day. The Capt. Dined here—otherwise alone.

10. At home all day alone. Mr. Custis came in the afternoon.

   John Parke Custis was probably returning from the Calvert home of Mount Airy with Benedict Calvert’s reply (8 April 1773, DLC:GW) to GW’s letter (3 April 1773, DLC:GW) regarding Custis’s betrothal to Calvert’s daughter Nelly. Calvert agreed with GW that the match, which met with his approval, should be postponed while Custis studied at King’s College in New York City.

11. Went to Pohick Church with Mrs. Washington & Mr. Custis & returnd to Dinner.

12. Set of for Annapolis with Mr. Custis. Dined & lodgd at Mr. Bouchers with Govr. Eden & others.

   Jonathan Boucher had written to GW 8 April: “I am told, You have Business to our Provincial Court, the next week; I hope to see You either agoing, or returning. The Govr., Mr. Calvert, the chief Justice, & Mr. Dulany dine here on Monday: shou’d You set out on that Day, You know, You can be here in Time to Dinner” (DLC:GW). GW’s business at the Maryland court was to submit a proved account against Daniel Jenifer Adams for £106 14s. 6d. Virginia currency. Adams, who had taken some of GW’s flour to the West Indies to be sold (see main entry for 22 July 1772), had perpetrated what GW feared was a swindle, and GW was afraid he would be able to get no money from Adams for his cargo (for further information, see  type="document">letters of GW to Robert McMichan, 12 Jan. 1773 [1], [2], 12 Feb. 1773, Feb. 1773, and 14 June 1773, DLC:GW).

   GW’s visit to Jonathan Boucher’s home is his last contact with Boucher recorded in the diaries. In the fall of 1774 Boucher, coming under increasing attack for his personal resistance to the rising activism of local Whigs, moved to The Lodge, a plantation near Oxon Hill, across the Potomac from Alexandria (BOUCHER [1]Jonathan Bouchier, ed. Reminiscences of an American Loyalist, 1738–1789: Being the Autobiography of The Revd Jonathan Boucher, Rector of Annapolis in Maryland and afterwards Vicar of Epsom, Surrey, England. Boston, 1925., 93; Va. Gaz., Pi, 1 June 1775). On 6 Aug. 1775, a month before he and his wife sailed for England, Boucher wrote GW a long letter regarding GW’s apparent lack of sympathy toward his sufferings, which concluded: “You are no longer worthy of my friendship: a man of honour can no longer without dishonour be connected with you. With your cause I renounce you” (BOUCHER [1]Jonathan Bouchier, ed. Reminiscences of an American Loyalist, 1738–1789: Being the Autobiography of The Revd Jonathan Boucher, Rector of Annapolis in Maryland and afterwards Vicar of Epsom, Surrey, England. Boston, 1925., 141). In 1797, however, Boucher published a collection of sermons on the Revolution and included a long dedication to GW in which he wrote: “I was once your neighbour and your friend: the unhappy dispute . . . broke off our personal connexion: but I never was more than your political enemy; and every sentiment even of political animosity has, on my part, long ago subsided” (BOUCHER [2]Jonathan Boucher. A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution; in Thirteen Discourses, Preached in North America between the Years 1763 and 1775: with an Historical Preface. London, 1797.). GW replied 15 Aug. 1798 in a friendly letter that closed “With very great respect” (DLC:GW).

13. Got to Annapolis. Dind & lodgd at the Governors—where I also Supped.

14. Dined and Suppd at Mr. Loyd Dulany’s. Lodgd at the Govrs.

15. Dined at Colo. Sharpes and returnd to Annapolis. Supd & Lodgd at the Governors.

   Horatio Sharpe (1718–1790), former governor of Maryland, had retired in 1769 to his summer home on the Whitehall River in Anne Arundel County, seven miles from Annapolis. Sharpe had been governor during the French and Indian War and had been active in strengthening the frontier forts. He

had been replaced in 1769 by Robert Eden, brother-in-law of the proprietor of Maryland.

16. Dined and Supped at Mr. Danl. Dulany’s. Lodgd at the Govrs.

17. Left Annapolis. Dined & lodgd at Mr. Calverts.

18. Reachd home to Dinner after passing through Piscataway Town.

19. At home all day alone except Mr. Smith (manager of Messrs. Herberts &ca. fishery) who stays here.

   Mr. Smith may be Edward Smith (1752–1826). According to Toner, Smith—who first appeared at Mount Vernon on 7 July 1770—was a clerk for Herbert & Co., the firm which contracted for the catch from one of GW’s fisheries (DLC: Toner Collection). Herbert & Co. probably rented one of the fisheries on Clifton’s Neck (Md. Gaz., 9 Sept. 1773).

20. Dined at Belvoir with Mrs. Washington & Patcy Custis. Returnd in the Afternoon & found Mr. Tilghman, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Robt. Adam & his Nephew as also David Arrell. All of whom Stayd all Night.

   Mr. Harrison is either Robert Hanson Harrison or Richard Harrison, a merchant (see main entry for 14 Oct. 1773). Robert Adam’s nephew must have been his brother John’s son Robert (Fairfax County Wills, Book E–1, 315–17, Vi Microfilm).

   David Arell (d. 1792), son of Richard and Eleanor Arell, was a lawyer in Alexandria. During the Revolution he became a captain in the 3d Virginia Regiment.

21. Mr. Adam & Nephew went away after breakfast. The rest stayd to Dinner & all Night. Mr. Robt. Brent came to Dinner & stayd the Evening.

   Robert Brent (c.1730–1780), the son of George and Catherine Trimming ham Brent, lived at Woodstock on Aquia Creek in Stafford County and owned the quarry at Aquia. Brent had undoubtedly come to see GW about the estate of Brent’s aunt Elizabeth Clifton. Mrs. Clifton had appointed GW one of her executors, but GW was showing some reluctance to serve in an active capacity. Brent, another of the executors, wrote GW in Feb. 1774, urging him to accept the office. He added that he did not feel it would be a troublesome business, for Mrs. Ann Slaughter, who was Mrs. Clifton’s only daughter and heiress, would probably continue to live apart from her husband, and in that case “the trust may be said in some measure to have ceas’d, as it does on her becoming a Widow” (DLC:GW).

22. All went away before breakfast. I rid into the Neck after it.

23. Rid to Doeg Run & Mill. Mr. W. Washington & Lady came to Dinner & stayd the Night.

24. Lord Fairfax & Colo. Fairfax—Mr. Calvert, his Lady & two Daughters, & Mr. Geo. Digges & sister Teresa dind here. The two first went away—the others contd.

25. At home all day with the above Company.

26. Went with Mr. Calvert &ca. to the Fishing Landing at the Ferry. Found Doctr. Digges Mr. Tilghman & Mr. Fitzgerald here upon our return who Dind & stayd all Night.

   John Fitzgerald (d. 1799), a native of Ireland, came to America in 1769 and settled in Alexandria as a partner of Valentine Peers (Piers) in a mercantile business. During the Revolution he served as aide-de-camp to GW. After the Revolution, Fitzgerald was mayor of Alexandria, collector of customs, and served as a director and later as president of the Potowmack Company. He later married Jane Digges, daughter of William Digges of Warburton.

27. At home all day with the above Company. Mrs. Calvert Mrs. Washington & my wife went to hear Mrs. Masons Funeral Serm.

   This funeral sermon was for Ann Eilbeck Mason, wife of Col. George Mason of Gunston Hall. She had died on 9 Mar., following a long illness, and was buried at Gunston Hall. This memorial service was preached at Pohick Church by James Scott, rector of Dettingen Parish (MASON [2]Robert A. Rutland, ed. The Papers of George Mason, 1725–1792. 3 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1970., 1:481).

28. Mr. Calverts Family, Mr. Washingtons, & the other Company all went away after Breakfast. I contd. at home all day.

29. Rid into the Neck, & from thence went to Sheridines Point attempting to clear it for the Sein.

30. Went to the Point again and made one or two pretty good Hauls.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

April 1st. Warm and pleasant in the forenoon—but Cloudy & Cold in the Afternoon, Wind blowing fresh from the No. West.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. Clear and Cool, Wind blowing fresh from the same quarter.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. Much such a day as yesterday Wind from the same place but not quite so fresh.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Clear, Calm, and pleasant in the forenoon. In the Afternoon wind fresh from the No. Wt. and turning Cool.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Wind at No. West all day—fresh and Cool.


Title: [Diary entry: 7 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

7. Clear but the Wind pretty fresh from the Southward & Warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Very warm and Smoaky with but little Wind & that Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10th. Just such a day as the preceeding one. What little Wind there is coming from the same Quarter.


Title: [Diary entry: 11 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 11. Clear, Wind coming from the No. West blew hard, & turnd Cold.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. Calm, clear, & pleasant, growing warm again.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Lowering Morning & rainy afternoon with the Wind fresh from the No. East—all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17. Lowering forenoon with the Wind at No. East. Afternoon Rainy & Cool.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Wind very fresh and Cool all day, from the No. East.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. Much such a day as yesterday with the Wind fresh & a little Rain now & then.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. Cool in the Morning but warm afterwards—wind getting to the Southward.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. Clear and warm, Wind in the same place and but little of it.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. Again Warm and Clear with little or no Wind from the Southward.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. Calm & warm in the forenoon, but Cool in the Evening Wind springing up fresh from the Eastward.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. Clear, Calm, and pretty warm in the forenoon—but Cool in the Evening, Wind fresh from the Eastward.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

27. Cold & raw all day, Wind fresh from the Eastward and like for Rain—but none fell.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29th. Clear and tolerably warm in the forenoon but cool, the wind blowing a little fresh from the Eastward in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 April 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30. Wind still Easterly, and Weather much the same as yesterday.


Title: Acct. of the Weather in April [1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

April 1st. Warm and pleasant in the forenoon—but Cloudy & Cold in the Afternoon, Wind blowing fresh from the No. West.

2. Clear and Cool, Wind blowing fresh from the same quarter.

3. Much such a day as yesterday Wind from the same place but not quite so fresh.

4. Clear, Calm, and pleasant in the forenoon. In the Afternoon wind fresh from the No. Wt. and turning Cool.

5. Wind at No. West all day—fresh and Cool.

6. Clear, Calm, and pleasant. Wind what there was of it came from the Southward.

7. Clear but the Wind pretty fresh from the Southward & Warm.

8. Wind tho not much of it from the same quarter. Warm and Smoaky.

9. Very warm and Smoaky with but little Wind & that Southerly.

10th. Just such a day as the preceeding one. What little Wind there is coming from the same Quarter.

11. Clear, Wind coming from the No. West blew hard, & turnd Cold.

12. Calm, clear, & pleasant, growing warm again.

13. Much a day as the preceeding one.

14. Lowering Morning & rainy afternoon with the Wind fresh from the No. East—all day.

15. Raining & drisling forenoon but clear afternoon—Wind getting to the South East.

16. Clear and pleasant with the Wind Westerly.

17. Lowering forenoon with the Wind at No. East. Afternoon Rainy & Cool.

18. Wind very fresh and Cool all day, from the No. East.

19. Much such a day as yesterday with the Wind fresh & a little Rain now & then.

20. Cool in the Morning but warm afterwards—wind getting to the Southward.

21. Clear and very warm with but little Wind and that Southerly.

22. Clear and warm, Wind in the same place and but little of it.

23. Again Warm and Clear with little or no Wind from the Southward.

24. Calm & warm in the forenoon, but Cool in the Evening Wind springing up fresh from the Eastward.

25. Rather Cool with Easterly winds. Clear but Smoaky.

26. Clear, Calm, and pretty warm in the forenoon—but Cool in the Evening, Wind fresh from the Eastward.

27. Cold & raw all day, Wind fresh from the Eastward and like for Rain—but none fell.

28. Cold, raw, and Misting in the forenoon—but warm afterwards—Clouds dispersg.

29th. Clear and tolerably warm in the forenoon but cool, the wind blowing a little fresh from the Eastward in the Afternoon.

30. Wind still Easterly, and Weather much the same as yesterday.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

May 1st. Went to the different Fishing Landings on both sides the River as high as broad Creek & found that few Fish had been catchd.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. Went to Belvoir and dined. Returnd in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 3. Went by the Church to Colo. Mason’s where I dind and returnd in the Afternoon. F[oun]d Mr. Ramsay here who stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Went with Mr. Ramsays to the fishing Landings at the Ferry & Sheridines point.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Mr. Ramsay went away before Dinner. I rid to Muddy hole, Dogue Run—Mill & Ferry Plantations. Found Mr. Hall & Mr. Adam’s here, who dind & went away afterwards.


Title: [Diary entry: 7 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

7th. Mr. Tilghman & Captn. Mathis dind here—both of which went away afterwds.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

8. Mr. Custis, set of for Mr. Calverts on his way to New York. I rid to the Plantations in the Neck.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10. Those two Gentlemen stayd to Dinner, after which I set out on my Journey for New York. Lodgd at Mr. Calverts.


Title: [Diary entry: 11 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

11. Breakfasted at Mr. Igns. Digges. Dind at the Coffee Ho. in Annapolis & lodgd at the Govrs.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. Dined, Supped & lodgd at the Governors.


Title: [Diary entry: 13 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

13. After Breakfast & abt. 8 Oclock set out for Rockhall where we arrivd in two hours & 25 Minutes. Dind on Board the Annapolis at Chester Town & Supped & lodgd at Mr. Ringolds.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Stopd at George Town, on Sasafras, & dind & lodgd at Mr. Dl. Heaths.


Title: [Diary entry: 16 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

16. Breakfasted at Chester & Dined at Govr. Penns in Philadelphia.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Dined with sevl. Gentlemen at our own lodgings and went to the Assembly in the Evening.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. Dined with Mr. Cadwalader & went to the Ball.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 21. Dined with Mr. Merideth & Spent the Evening at Mr. Mease’s.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. Dined at Mr. Morris’s & Spent the Evening at the Club.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. Set out for New York with Lord Sterling, Majr. Bayard & Mr. Custis after Breakfasting with Govr. Penn. Dind with Govr. Franklin at Burlington & lodgd at Trenton.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. Breakfasted at Princeton. Dined at Bound Brooke & reachd Lord Sterlings at Basking Ridge in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. Din’d at Elizabeth Town, & reachd New York in the Evening wch. I spent at Hull’s Tavern. Lodg’d at a Mr. Farmers.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

27. Din’d at the Entertainment given by the Citicens of New York to Genl. Gage.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. Wind much in the same place & very cool in the Morning.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Wind Easterly all day with some appearances of Rain very little of which fell altho it thunderd more or less all the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Wind at No. West, and Cool, till the Afternoon when it grew warm again.


Title: [Diary entry: 7 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

7. Warm and clear (except smoak). Wind pretty fresh from the Eastward.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 8. Wind Easterly in the Morning and pretty fresh—also Cool. Afternoon Calm—clear & Warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Warm, & Clear, all day. Calm in the forenoon. Wind fresh from the So. East afterwards.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10th. Clear and Warm all the day. Wind at So. East.


Title: [Diary entry: 11 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

11. Clear & Warm again. Wind continuing in the same place.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. It began about 9 or 10 Oclock to Rain from the Southward & contd. more or less so all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 13 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

13. Now & then Raining. Wind from the same Quarter & fresh.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Cloudy & somewhat Cool wind Shifting more Westerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 15 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

15. Windy & Cloudy all day being also Cool.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17. Again warm Wind Southerly & clear. In the Afternoon Thunder Lightning & Rain.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Clear & pleasant being at the same time a little warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. Clear and pleasant the Wind Westerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. A little Rain in the Morning but clear & pleasant afterwards.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. Raining in the forenoon but clear afterwards then Raing. in the Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. Cloudy in the forenoon but clear & warm afterwards with but little Wind.


Title: [Diary entry: 25 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

25. Clear in the forenoon, cloudy afterwards & Cool. Wind Easterly.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 26. Misting till about 9 or 10 oclock then clear and warm there being but little Wind and that Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

27. Cool Wind Westerly and Weather clear.


Title: [Diary entry: 28 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

28. Much such a day as yesterday—in all respects.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29. Clear and pleasant being rather Cool wind still Westerly especially towards the Evening.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30. Very warm—there being but little Wind.


Title: [Diary entry: 31 May 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

31st. Very warm notwithstanding the Wind blew tolerably fresh from the Southward.


Title: Acct. of the Weather in May [1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

May 1st. Cool, & clear, Wind being pretty fresh all day from the No. West.

2. Wind So. West, & West, & Cool especially in the Evening.

3. Wind much in the same place & very cool in the Morning.

4. Wind Easterly all day with some appearances of Rain very little of which fell altho it thunderd more or less all the Afternoon.

5. Wind at No. West, and Cool, till the Afternoon when it grew warm again.

6. Calm & warm all day. Very Smoaky as it hath been for a Month pass’d.

7. Warm and clear (except smoak). Wind pretty fresh from the Eastward.

8. Wind Easterly in the Morning and pretty fresh—also Cool. Afternoon Calm—clear & Warm.

9. Warm, & Clear, all day. Calm in the forenoon. Wind fresh from the So. East afterwards.

10th. Clear and Warm all the day. Wind at So. East.

11. Clear & Warm again. Wind continuing in the same place.

12. It began about 9 or 10 Oclock to Rain from the Southward & contd. more or less so all day.

13. Now & then Raining. Wind from the same Quarter & fresh.

14. Cloudy & somewhat Cool wind Shifting more Westerly.

15. Windy & Cloudy all day being also Cool.

16. Little or no Wind, & that being Southerly it grew warm again.

17. Again warm Wind Southerly & clear. In the Afternoon Thunder Lightning & Rain.

18. Clear & pleasant being at the same time a little warm.

19. Clear and pleasant the Wind Westerly.

20. Still clear & midling Cool wind fresh from the west.

21. A little Rain in the Morning but clear & pleasant afterwards.

22. Raining in the forenoon but clear afterwards then Raing. in the Night.

23. Cloudy in the forenoon but clear & warm afterwards with but little Wind.

24. Clear & tolerably with but little wind.

25. Clear in the forenoon, cloudy afterwards & Cool. Wind Easterly.

26. Misting till about 9 or 10 oclock then clear and warm there being but little Wind and that Southerly.

27. Cool Wind Westerly and Weather clear.

28. Much such a day as yesterday—in all respects.

29. Clear and pleasant being rather Cool wind still Westerly especially towards the Evening.

30. Very warm—there being but little Wind.

31st. Very warm notwithstanding the Wind blew tolerably fresh from the Southward.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

June 1st. Breakfasted at Brunswick on the Banks of the Rariton, din’d at Princeton and lodgd at Bristol.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Breakfasted at the Sign of the Bull 13 Miles from the Ship. Dind at Lancaster 19 Miles further & lodgd at Wrights Ferry 10 Miles from Lancaster.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Breakfasted in York Town. Dind at the Sign of the Buck 14 Miles from Yk. wch. is 12 Miles from Wrights Ferry & lodgd at Suttons 15 M. from the Buck.


Title: [Diary entry: 6 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

6. Breakfasted at Slades 10 Miles from Suttons & dind and lodgd at Baltimore Town.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

8. Reach’d home to Dinner about two Oclock. Mr. Buckner came here in the Evening & lodgd.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Went up to Alexandria wth. him & returnd in the Afternn.


Title: [Diary entry: 11 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

11. Mr. Buckner & Mr. Robinson dind here—also Captn. Harper & a Mr. Large. After Dinner Miss Reed, Miss Nelly Calvert, Doctr. Rumney & Mr. Campbell came all of them staying the Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. Captn. Harper Mr. Large & Mr. Campbell went away after Breakfast, Mr. Buckner & Mr. Robinson after Dinner.


Title: [Diary entry: 13 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

13. Went up with Miss Reed &ca. to Alexa. Church. Returnd to Dinner with Mr. Willis. Doctr. Rumney wt. away.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. At home all day Mr. Willis continuing here.


Title: [Diary entry: 15 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

15. Still at home being here Mr. Willis. In the forenoon Mr. Tilghman came.


Title: [Diary entry: 16 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

16. Mr. Willis went away after Breakfast. Mr. Robinson & Mr. Buckner came to Dinner & stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 18. Every one but Miss Reed & Miss Nelly Calvert went away after Breakfast. In the Afternoon my Bror. Jno. his wife, Daughter Jane & young Child came here.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. Colo. Fairfax & Lady as also Mr. Massey dind here—Patcy Custis being buried—the first went away. Mr. Massey stayd.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. Mr. Massey went away after Breakfast. I continued at home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. My Brother, his Wife, Miss Reed & Nelly Calvert Dind at Belvoir & returnd in the Afternn. I contd. at home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. Mr. Digges & Mrs. Tracy came here to Dinner also Mr. Hoops & his Wife the latter of whom went away afterwards as did Mr. Digges. Miss Calvert came in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 25 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

25. Walkd into the Neck.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. Rid to Muddy hole Ferry &ca. after Miss Digges went away in the Morning.


Title: [Diary entry: 28 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

28. Mr. Calvert & his Daughters & Mr. Tilghman all went away in the Morning Early.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29. Went with Mrs. Washington & dind at Belvoir. Returnd in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30. At home all day. Doctr. Rumney Dind & lodgd here, as did Doctr. Craik & another Person with him.


Title: [June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

June 1st. Breakfasted at Brunswick on the Banks of the Rariton, din’d at Princeton and lodgd at Bristol.

   brunswick: New Brunswick, N.J., on the Raritan River.

   While at Princeton, GW “paid Doctr [John] Weatherspoon Presidt of Princeton College £48.16.0 Jersey” currency, equal to £39 9d. Virginia currency, for the schooling of William Ramsay, Jr., eldest son of William Ramsay of Alexandria (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 47).

   On this same visit, GW looked up his two nephews, George and Charles Lewis, sons of Betty and Fielding Lewis, who were enrolled at the college. He gave his nephews and the Ramsay boy each a present of one pistole for pocket money (Cash Memoranda, DLC:GW).

   Bristol, Pa., is 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia and 3 miles northeast of the Neshaminy Creek.

2. Got to Philadelphia by Nine Oclock to my old lodging. Dind at my lodgings & spent the Evening there.

3. Rid to the Meadows along the River before breakfast. Abt. 11 Oclock left Phila. Dind at the Sorrel Horse 13 Miles from it & lodgd at the Ship Tavern 34 [miles] off.

   GW probably rode along the Schuylkill River. This area was popular for drives and outings because of the scenic meadows and large estates on both sides of the river. The Sorrel Horse Tavern was just east of Radnor Meeting House in Radnor Township. Michael Stadleman, whose family kept several taverns in the area, bought the building about 1765 and called it the Horse

and Groom. The name was shortly afterwards changed to the Sorrel Horse (BARKER [2]Charles R. Barker. “Colonial Taverns of Lower Merion.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 52 (1928): 205–28., 218).

   The Ship Tavern was built by an Irishman, Thomas Parke (c.1704–1758), and seems to have been run after his death by his wife, Jane Edge Parke. It was one mile west of Downingtown on the Lancaster Road. Later, the sign was moved to a building in West Whiteland Township, east of Downingtown (LANDISCharles I. Landis. “The History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 42 (1918): 1–28, 127–40; 43 (1919): 84–90., 42 [1918], 24–25).

4. Breakfasted at the Sign of the Bull 13 Miles from the Ship. Dind at Lancaster 19 Miles further & lodgd at Wrights Ferry 10 Miles from Lancaster.

   Wright’s ferry, now called Wrightsville, is on the south bank of the Susquehanna River in York County. The ferry crossed from Columbia, in Lancaster County.

5. Breakfasted in York Town. Dind at the Sign of the Buck 14 Miles from Yk. wch. is 12 Miles from Wrights Ferry & lodgd at Suttons 15 M. from the Buck.

   york town: York, Pa. Sutton’s was probably a tavern called the Black Horse in Harford County, Md., near the Baltimore County line. A village called Blackhorse now occupies the site.

6. Breakfasted at Slades 10 Miles from Suttons & dind and lodgd at Baltimore Town.

   Slade’s tavern was probably located on My Lady’s Manor in Baltimore County, Md., a few miles east of the present town of Cockeysville.

7. Breakfasted at the Widow Ramsays 15 Miles from Baltimore & lodgd at Mr. Calverts.

   The Widow Ramsay’s, known as “Stevens” during the Revolution (MD. RED BOOKSCalendar of Maryland State Papers. The Red Books, no. 4, part 2. Annapolis, 1953., 134), was about 16 miles south of Baltimore at the junction of the Baltimore road with a road leading to the Carroll estate, Doughoregan Manor (W.P.A. [2]W.P.A. Writers’ Project. Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State. American Guide Series. New York, 1940., 461).

8. Reach’d home to Dinner about two Oclock. Mr. Buckner came here in the Evening & lodgd.

   In Dec. 1772 GW had sold the firm of Baldwin & John Buckner, of Gloucester, 300 barrels of superfine flour, for which he received a bond to secure payment the following April in Williamsburg. Fielding Lewis was delegated to collect some debts for GW in Williamsburg at that time but was unable to collect from the Buckner brothers. The money was finally paid in June by Richard Robinson (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 65; GW to Lewis, 20 April 1773, PHi: Gratz Collection; GW’s account with Lewis, 20 April 1773, NjMoHP).

9. Went up to Alexandria wth. him & returnd in the Afternn.

10. At home all day alone.

11. Mr. Buckner & Mr. Robinson dind here—also Captn. Harper & a Mr. Large. After Dinner Miss Reed, Miss Nelly Calvert, Doctr. Rumney & Mr. Campbell came all of them staying the Night.

   Mr. Robinson is probably Richard Robinson, who paid GW the £616 13s. which had come due in April from Baldwin & John Buckner’s bond. GW recorded the payment in June 1773 (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 65).

   John Harper (1728–1804), a Quaker from Philadelphia, carried a letter of introduction from Reese Meredith of that city. Harper and his partner, William Hartshorne, were considering moving their mercantile firm to Alexandria (5 May 1773, DLC:GW). The partnership was dissolved in 1775, and Harper became a prosperous shipping merchant in Alexandria.

   Mr. Large is probably Ebenezer Large, a Philadelphia merchant.

   Miss Mary Read, evidently a sort of retainer in Benedict Calvert’s family, was left in his will a legacy “for Services in my family” (Prince George’s County, Md., Wills, No. 1, T, 258–62, MdAA Microfilm).

12. Captn. Harper Mr. Large & Mr. Campbell went away after Breakfast, Mr. Buckner & Mr. Robinson after Dinner.

13. Went up with Miss Reed &ca. to Alexa. Church. Returnd to Dinner with Mr. Willis. Doctr. Rumney wt. away.

   GW was apparently attending worship service at the new church for the first time.

14. At home all day Mr. Willis continuing here.

15. Still at home being here Mr. Willis. In the forenoon Mr. Tilghman came.

16. Mr. Willis went away after Breakfast. Mr. Robinson & Mr. Buckner came to Dinner & stayd all Night.

17. All of the Company here Rid to the Mill. To Dinner came Lame Jno. Washington & Miss Terrett.

   Lame John Washington (d. 1787) of Leedstown, King George County, was crippled in both legs. He was a son of Robert Washington (d. 1765) and grandson of John Washington (b. 1671) and Mary Townshend Washington of Stafford County. His second wife, Constantia Terrett Washington, was a daughter of GW’s neighbor, William Henry Terrett (d. 1758). The Miss Terrett who came with him to Mount Vernon was probably his wife’s younger sister Susanna.

18. Every one but Miss Reed & Miss Nelly Calvert went away after Breakfast. In the Afternoon my Bror. Jno. his wife, Daughter Jane & young Child came here.

   The two children who came on this visit were Jane Washington (1759–1791), who later married GW’s nephew William Augustine Washington (1757–1810), and her brother, another William Augustine Washington (1767–1784), who died unmarried.

19. At home all day. About five oclock poor Patcy Custis Died Suddenly.

   GW wrote to Burwell Bassett 20 June that “yesterday removed the Sweet Innocent Girl into a more happy, & peaceful abode than any she has met with in the afflicted Path she hitherto has trod. She rose from Dinner about four Oclock, in better health and spirits than she appeared to have been in for some time; soon after which she was siezd with one of her usual Fits, & expired in it, in less than two Minutes without uttering a Word, a groan, or scarce a Sigh. This Sudden, and unexpected blow, I scarce need add has almost reduced my poor Wife to the lowest ebb of Misery” (20 June 1773, NNMM).

20. Colo. Fairfax & Lady as also Mr. Massey dind here—Patcy Custis being buried—the first went away. Mr. Massey stayd.

   Patsy was laid to rest in the family vault, about 200 yards south of the main house. Rev. Lee Massey read the funeral service, and GW paid him £2 6s. 3d., about normal compensation (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 90; JONES [1]Hugh Jones. The Present State of Virginia From Whence Is Inferred A Short View of Maryland and North Carolina. Edited by Richard L. Morton. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1956., 99–100). The coffin, which had been bought from James Connell of Alexandria, was draped with a black pall belonging to GW (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 90; Robert Adam to GW, 16 Sept. 1773; HAMILTON [1]Stanislaus Murray Hamilton, ed. Letters to Washington and Accompanying Papers. 5 vols. Boston and New York, 1898–1902., 4:261).

21. Mr. Massey went away after Breakfast. I continued at home all day.

22. My Brother, his Wife, Miss Reed & Nelly Calvert Dind at Belvoir & returnd in the Afternn. I contd. at home all day.

23. My Brother & Family also Mrs. Reed went away early. I contd. at home all day.

24. Mr. Digges & Mrs. Tracy came here to Dinner also Mr. Hoops & his Wife the latter of whom went away afterwards as did Mr. Digges. Miss Calvert came in the Afternoon.

   mrs. tracy: GW means Miss Tracy Digges; see main entry for 26 June. David Hoop’s wife was his bride of seven months, Mildred Syme Hoops, daughter of Col. John Syme (1728–1805), of Hanover County, who was a half brother of Patrick Henry. Hoops lived in Louisa County until the death

of his wife (c.1778), when he removed to Sussex County, N.J. During this visit GW paid Hoops £40 Virginia currency for a phaeton (GLAZEBROOKEugenia G. Glazebrook and Preston G. Glazebrook, comps. Virginia Migrations; Hanover County . . . . 1723–1850. 2 vols. Richmond, 1943–49., 2:64–76; General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 90).

25. Walkd into the Neck.

26. Rid to Muddy hole Ferry &ca. after Miss Digges went away in the Morning.

27. The two Miss Calverts went up to Church. Mr. Calvert came over to Dinner & stayd all Night as did Mr. Tilghman from Alexa.

28. Mr. Calvert & his Daughters & Mr. Tilghman all went away in the Morning Early.

29. Went with Mrs. Washington & dind at Belvoir. Returnd in the Afternoon.

30. At home all day. Doctr. Rumney Dind & lodgd here, as did Doctr. Craik & another Person with him.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

June 1st. Cloudy & tolerably pleasant in the forenoon, Wind being fresh from the southward. Afternoon exceeding hot being clear & still.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. Very warm again, notwithstanding the wind blew fresh from the Southward.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. Again Warm after the Sun Broke out which happend about 9 Oclock.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Foggy, Misty, & tolerably Cool till abt. 10 Oclock—then Warm & Clear. In the Night a good deal of Rain.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Close & sultry, with Rain about Midday, & but little Wind till the Evening.


Title: [Diary entry: 7 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

7. Grown Warm again, Wind getting Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. But little Wind, but Rain at different times through the day with thunder.


Title: [Diary entry: 11 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

11. Cloudy & exceeding Cold Wind fresh from the No. West, & Snowing.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. Equally Cold with the preceeding day Wind in the same place and as fresh.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Wind fresh from the Eastward and Cool.


Title: [Diary entry: 15 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

15. Wind in the same place, with the Weather equally Cool. Some Rain in the Morning.


Title: [Diary entry: 16 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

16. Growing warm again Wind Southerly, & but little of it.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17. Clear, Calm, and exceeding Hot.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Again very hot with appearances of Rain but none fell here. Wind from the southward.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. Again very warm, & clear, wind being Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. Still very warm with thunder and appearances of Rain but none fell here.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. Warm again with a shower of Rain in the Afternoon wch. Cool’d the Air.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22d. Very Cool—Wind being fresh from the No. West.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. Pleasant enough—Wind being pretty fresh from the So. West.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. But little Wind, and very Warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 25 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

25. Very little Wind again and exceeding Hot. In the Afternn. Rain, but none here with thunder.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 27. Appearances of Rain but little or none fell. Still warm but not so hot as it had been.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29. Exceeding Warm with but little Wind & that Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 June 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30. Again very warm but not so hot as yesterday there being more Wind.


Title: Acct. of the Weather in June [1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

June 1st. Cloudy & tolerably pleasant in the forenoon, Wind being fresh from the southward. Afternoon exceeding hot being clear & still.

2. Very warm again, notwithstanding the wind blew fresh from the Southward.

3. Again Warm after the Sun Broke out which happend about 9 Oclock.

4. Foggy, Misty, & tolerably Cool till abt. 10 Oclock—then Warm & Clear. In the Night a good deal of Rain.

5. Close & sultry, with Rain about Midday, & but little Wind till the Evening.

6. Very Cool Wind being fresh from the No. West, & Cloudy.

7. Grown Warm again, Wind getting Southerly.

8. Much such a day as yesterday, there being but little Wd.

9. But little Wind, but Rain at different times through the day with thunder.

10th. Warm and pleasant with some Clouds.

11. Cloudy & exceeding Cold Wind fresh from the No. West, & Snowing.

   snowing: “Memorandum—Be it remembered that on the eleventh day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy three It rain’d Hail’d snow’d and was very Cold” (Fairfax County Order Book for 1772–74, inside front, Vi Microfilm).

12. Equally Cold with the preceeding day Wind in the same place and as fresh.

13. Clear & moderately warm again, there being but little Wind and that Southerly.

14. Wind fresh from the Eastward and Cool.

15. Wind in the same place, with the Weather equally Cool. Some Rain in the Morning.

16. Growing warm again Wind Southerly, & but little of it.

17. Clear, Calm, and exceeding Hot.

18. Again very hot with appearances of Rain but none fell here. Wind from the southward.

19. Again very warm, & clear, wind being Southerly.

20. Still very warm with thunder and appearances of Rain but none fell here.

21. Warm again with a shower of Rain in the Afternoon wch. Cool’d the Air.

22d. Very Cool—Wind being fresh from the No. West.

23. Pleasant enough—Wind being pretty fresh from the So. West.

24. But little Wind, and very Warm.

25. Very little Wind again and exceeding Hot. In the Afternn. Rain, but none here with thunder.

26. Again warm with a little Rain in the afternoon & Very high Wind.

27. Appearances of Rain but little or none fell. Still warm but not so hot as it had been.

28. Cloudy & like for Rain in the forenoon but clear afterwards.

29. Exceeding Warm with but little Wind & that Southerly.

30. Again very warm but not so hot as yesterday there being more Wind.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

July 1st. Doctr. Craik & his Companion went away before Breakfast; & Doctr. Rumney after Dinner. Miss Molly Manley came in the Afternn. & stayd all Night. Rid with Mrs. Washington to the Ferry Plantn.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. At home all day alone.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. Rid into the Neck & by Muddy hole. Miss Molly Manley went home in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. At home all day. Mrs. Peake & her daughter dind here.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Rid with Mrs. Washington to Muddy hole, Doeg Run, & Mill Plantations.


Title: [Diary entry: 6 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

6. At home all day. Mr. Peake dined here.


Title: [Diary entry: 7 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

7. Rid to Muddy hole Doeg Run and the Mill. Mrs. Barnes & Molly McCarty came.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

8. At home all day. Colo. Fairfax & Mrs. Fairfax came in the Aftern. to take leave of us & returnd again. Doctr. Craik also came & stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Doctr. Craik went away in the Morning Early—Miss Molly McCarty in the Afternoon. Mrs. Washington & self went to Belvoir to see them take Shipping. Mr. Robt. Adams and Mr. Mattw. Campbell dined here.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10. Mr. Calvert his Lady & two Daughters, & Mr. Geo. Digges & Sisters Nancy & Jenny came over early in the Morning & stayd all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 11 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

11. Old Mr. Digges came over in the Forenoon—also Mr. Willis & Polly Brazier. Willis returnd in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. Mr. Digges’s, & Miss Digges; as also Mr. & Mrs. Calvert went this forenoon the two Miss Calverts rem[ainin]g.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Rid with the two Miss Calverts & Mrs. Washington to the New Church at Pohick.


Title: [Diary entry: 15 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

15. Rid to Muddy hole, Doeg Run, & Mill Plantations.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 17. Went down to Colo. Fairfax’s White House to haul the Sein. Returnd to Dinner.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. Mrs. Washington and the two Miss Calverts went to Alexa.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. I went up to Alexandria and returnd in the Eveng.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. Rid into the Neck and to Muddy hole Plantation.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. Rid to the Meadow at the Mill—to the Mill, & Ferry Plantations. Mrs. Barnes went away yesterday Bag & Baggage.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. At home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. Mr. Calvert came here to Breakfast after wch. Mrs. Washington the two Miss Calverts & my self went over with him to Mr. Digges & dind. Nelly Calvert returnd with Mrs. Washington & myself in the Afternoon. Doctr. Rumney came here in the Eveng.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. At home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

27. Ditto—Ditto.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30th. Mr. Tilghman returnd home. Mrs. Washington Miss Nelly Calvert & myself went to Mount Airy (Mr. Calverts) to Dinner.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

July 1st. Clear & Warm—Wind howevr. fresh from the Eastward.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. Very Warm. Clear & still in the forenoon—Wind pretty fresh from the Eastward afterwards.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. Again very warm—being just such a day as yesterday.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Very warm in the forenoon some appearances of a Settled Rain in the Evening but none fell.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Very warm and calm in the forenoon. Wind pretty fresh from the Southward in the Aftern.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

8. Same kind of Weather and Wind as yesterday.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Very warm and like yesterday in all respects.


Title: [Diary entry: 11 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

11. Same as yesterday with some appearances of Rain but none fell here.


Title: [Diary entry: 13 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

13. Very warm with some appearances of Rain again but none fell here.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Very warm with great appearances of Rain in the forenoon. In the afternoon a little fell.


Title: [Diary entry: 16 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 16. Wind fresh from the No. West & tolerably cool.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17. Grown more warm with but little Wind.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Turnd very hot again, Wind getting Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. Very warm. In the Evening Rain but very little of it here.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. Still warm, and again Showers but little or none here.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. Cool Wind at Northwest all day. And quite clear.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. Turning rather warmer but still Cool.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24th. Warm with but little wind, & that Northwest[er]ly.


Title: [Diary entry: 25 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

25. Very warm with some appearances of Rain but none fell.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. More appearances of Rain but none fell here. Weather Warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 28 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

28. Appearances of Rain but none fell here. Weather Warm & Wind southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29. Great appearances of Rain again but none fell here. Weather warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30. Morning very warm, close & still—but somewhat cooler afterwards. Wind freshing up.


Title: [Diary entry: 31 July 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

31. Warm—close and still in the forenoon. More Wind and Cooler afterwards.


Title: Acct. of the Weather in July [1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

July 1st. Clear & Warm—Wind howevr. fresh from the Eastward.

2. Very Warm. Clear & still in the forenoon—Wind pretty fresh from the Eastward afterwards.

3. Again very warm—being just such a day as yesterday.

4. Very warm in the forenoon some appearances of a Settled Rain in the Evening but none fell.

5. Very warm and calm in the forenoon. Wind pretty fresh from the Southward in the Aftern.

6. Clear & Warm in the forenoon. No Wind—fresh breeze in the Afternoon from the Southwd.

7. Again very warm in the forenn. Good Breeze in the Afternoon from the Southward.

8. Same kind of Weather and Wind as yesterday.

9. Very warm and like yesterday in all respects.

10. Again very warm & clear with the Wind Southerly & fresh in the Afternoon.

11. Same as yesterday with some appearances of Rain but none fell here.

12. Very Warm. Wind Southerly. In the Afternoon a Refreshing shower or two for a few Minutes.

13. Very warm with some appearances of Rain again but none fell here.

14. Very warm with great appearances of Rain in the forenoon. In the afternoon a little fell.

15. Wind in the Afternoon fresh from the So. West & great prospect of Rain but none fell here.

16. Wind fresh from the No. West & tolerably cool.

17. Grown more warm with but little Wind.

18. Turnd very hot again, Wind getting Southerly.

19. Very warm. In the Evening Rain but very little of it here.

20. Exceeding close and warm with Rain again in the Afternoon but little or none here.

21. Still warm, and again Showers but little or none here.

22. Cool Wind at Northwest all day. And quite clear.

23. Turning rather warmer but still Cool.

24th. Warm with but little wind, & that Northwest[er]ly.

25. Very warm with some appearances of Rain but none fell.

26. More appearances of Rain but none fell here. Weather Warm.

27. Still very warm with Clouds & thunder but no Rain here.

28. Appearances of Rain but none fell here. Weather Warm & Wind southerly.

29. Great appearances of Rain again but none fell here. Weather warm.

30. Morning very warm, close & still—but somewhat cooler afterwards. Wind freshing up.

31. Warm—close and still in the forenoon. More Wind and Cooler afterwards.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

Augt. 1st. At Mr. Calverts all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 2. Dined at Mr. Igns. Digges’s & returnd to Mr. Calverts in the afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. At home all day. Captn. Posey here—he came on Sunday last.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Rid to Muddy hole, Doeg Run, Mill, & Ferry Plantations.


Title: [Diary entry: 6 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

6. At home all day. Captn. Posey went to Captn. McCarty’s.


Title: [Diary entry: 7 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

7. At home all day, alone.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

8. Went up to Alexa. Church & returnd to Dinner. Captn. Posey & Son Price here. The last of whom went away after Dinner.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Mrs. Brown came here in the Afternoon & stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10. Mr. George Digges & Sister’s Teresa & Betcy came to Dinnr. & stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 11 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

11. Mrs. Brown went away after Breakfast.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

[12.] Mr. Digges & Sisters went away after Breakfast. I continued at home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 13 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

13. At home all day. Price Posey came to Dinner: & stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 15 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

15. At home all day alone.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17. At home all day—the above Gentlemen remaining here.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 18. After breakfast Colo. Mason & the Major left this. I continued at home all day. Mr. Craven Peyton came in the Afternoon and stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. Mr. Peyton went away after Breakfast. I continued at home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. Rid with Mrs. Washington to Muddy hole, Mill Plantn. & Mill before Dinner. At home afterwards alone.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. At home all day. In the Afternoon a Mr. Lambkin came & stayed all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. Went up to Church at Alexa. and returnd to Dinner. Found Doctr. Craik here who stayed all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. The above person’s prosecuted their journey towards Carolina in pursuit of this scheme purposing also to view the Lands on Ohio, & to see Mine there before they returnd with their Report to Scotland. I rid to the Ferry Doeg Run and Mill Plantations.


Title: [Diary entry: 25 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

25. At home all day. Alone.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. Went over (to dinner) to Mr. Digges’s to meet Govr. Eden &ca. Kept there all Night by Rain.


Title: [Diary entry: 28 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

28. Mr. Tilghman went away after Breakfast & Mr. Digges & his Sisters in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 31 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

31. At home all day.


Title: [August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

Augt. 1st. At Mr. Calverts all day.

2. Dined at Mr. Igns. Digges’s & returnd to Mr. Calverts in the afternoon.

3. Dined at Mr. Willm. Digges’s & got home in the afternoon.

4. At home all day. Captn. Posey here—he came on Sunday last.

   Posey’s visit lasted for a week and was for the purpose of extracting more money from GW. His nerve failed, however, and it was not until he was on his way back to Maryland that he wrote GW the purpose of his visit: “You have grant’d me many Favours since I have been Acquaint’d with you. I am now Reduc’d Very Low and advanc’d in years. I have noe Person in the world to Apply to for Assistance and Really am not Able to work. Pray would you be kind Enough to Let me have the Some [of] About £50 Maryland Currancy. I think with that some I could fix myself for Life, and not to want again. . . . I want’d to mention’d this affaire to you when I was at your house but I could not have the Face to Doe” (9 Aug., DLC:GW). GW did not let Posey have the £50 but continued to supply him with small amounts of money from time to time. His ledger records £4 “By Charity to Captn. Posey” on 15 Oct. 1773 and, in April 1774, £12 (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 93, 106).

5. Rid to Muddy hole, Doeg Run, Mill, & Ferry Plantations.

6. At home all day. Captn. Posey went to Captn. McCarty’s.

7. At home all day, alone.

8. Went up to Alexa. Church & returnd to Dinner. Captn. Posey & Son Price here. The last of whom went away after Dinner.

9. Mrs. Brown came here in the Afternoon & stayd all Night.

   Mrs. Brown is Catherine Scott Brown, wife of Dr. William Brown of Alexandria.

10. Mr. George Digges & Sister’s Teresa & Betcy came to Dinnr. & stayd all Night.

11. Mrs. Brown went away after Breakfast.

[12.] Mr. Digges & Sisters went away after Breakfast. I continued at home all day.

13. At home all day. Price Posey came to Dinner: & stayd all Night.

14. Very warm. Rid to an intended meeting of Vestry at the New Church. Dind at Captn. McCartys.

   There was no meeting on this day and the next meeting was not held until 22 Nov.

15. At home all day alone.

16. Went up to Alexandria being Court day. Returnd in the Afternoon. Found Majr. Jenifer & Colo. Mason here.

   GW did not appear as a justice at this brief court meeting (Fairfax County Order Book for 1772–74, 262–63, Vi Microfilm). However, he did apparently meet with several people to receive and pay out money on behalf of the Colvill estate (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 91).

17. At home all day—the above Gentlemen remaining here.

18. After breakfast Colo. Mason & the Major left this. I continued at home all day. Mr. Craven Peyton came in the Afternoon and stayd all Night.

   Major Jenifer was on his way home to Maryland and carried with him a letter from GW to Benedict Calvert, requesting Calvert to buy him an artisan in Annapolis (for Calvert’s reply, see Calvert to GW, 25 Aug. 1773, DLC:GW).

   Craven Peyton (d. 1781), the son of Valentine Peyton, was a justice of Loudoun County and a vestryman and churchwarden of Shelburne Parish. Peyton was a collector of rents for some of George William Fairfax’s lands and in late 1773 and early 1774 had some surveying done on Fairfax’s lands in Berkeley and Fauquier counties (account of Craven Peyton with Fairfax, 16 Sept. 1773, 26 April 1774, ViMtvL).

19. Mr. Peyton went away after Breakfast. I continued at home all day.

20. Rid with Mrs. Washington to Muddy hole, Mill Plantn. & Mill before Dinner. At home afterwards alone.

21. At home all day. In the Afternoon a Mr. Lambkin came & stayed all Night.

   Mr. Lambkin is probably George Lambkin or Lamkin of Fairfax County, who signed a bond of copartnership with Opie Lindsay, 21 Oct. 1771, to build a mill on Wolf Run in Fairfax County near the Prince William County line (Fairfax County Deeds, Book K–1, 36–40, Vi Microfilm). He is also probably the George Lambkin who was a justice for Fauquier County when it was formed in 1759 and was granted a license in 1761 to keep an ordinary in or near Warrenton (Va. Gaz., R, Mar. 1768; GROOME [1]H. C. Groome. Fauquier during the Proprietorship: A Chronicle of the Colonization and Organization of a Northern Neck County. Richmond, Va., 1927., 188). Lambkin had owned a mill on Goose Creek in Loudoun County which he sold to Daniel Jenifer (1727–1795) in 1771 (MOFFETTLee Moffett. Water Powered Mills of Fauquier County, Virginia. [Virginia, 1972]., 37–38).

22. Went up to Church at Alexa. and returnd to Dinner. Found Doctr. Craik here who stayed all Night.

23. At home all day. In the Afternoon came David Allan, & James Whitelaw, two Scotchmen empowerd by a Number of Familys about Glasgow to look out Land for two hundred Familys who had a Mind to settle in America.

   Although there had been a large emigration from Scotland for a number of years, after 1763 it greatly increased, and between 1763 and 1775 about 25,000 Scots immigrated to America. North Carolina received the largest number of them, most of whom were Highlanders, and only a small number Lowlanders (MERRENSHarry Roy Merrens. Colonial North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Historical Geography. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1964., 57). David Allen and James Whiteland were commissioners sent by the Glasgow-based American Company of Farmers to find a large tract of land, 16,000–20,000 acres in size, upon which to settle the

200 Lowland families waiting in Scotland. Although they promised to view GW’s Ohio lands, they were concerned that the frontier area would be too far from markets or landing places (WYLIET. W. J. Wylie. “Franklin County One Hundred Years Ago: A Settler’s Experience Told in a Letter Written by Alexander Thomson in 1773.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 8 (1884): 313–27., 322–23).

24. The above person’s prosecuted their journey towards Carolina in pursuit of this scheme purposing also to view the Lands on Ohio, & to see Mine there before they returnd with their Report to Scotland. I rid to the Ferry Doeg Run and Mill Plantations.

   GW had decided to lease his 20,000 acres of bounty land on the Ohio and Great Kanawha rivers (Pa. Gaz., 22 Sept. 1773, supp.; see 6 Nov. and 23 Nov. 1772). He felt that these lands, leased to tenants who would settle and develop them for their own use, would prosper more than lands placed under the management of an overseer. Nothing ever came of this scheme. Perhaps, as one prospective tenant claimed, GW’s terms were unrealistic (Richard Thompson to GW, 30 Sept. 1773, DLC:GW).

25. At home all day. Alone.

26. Went over (to dinner) to Mr. Digges’s to meet Govr. Eden &ca. Kept there all Night by Rain.

27. Govr. Eden, Captn. Ellis, Mr. Danl. Dulany & Mr. George Digges—as also Miss Nelly Calvert, Miss Tracy Digges & Mrs. Jenny Digges came over with me to Dinr. Also came Mr. Ben. Dulany & Mr. Tilghman—all of whom stayd all Night.

   captn. ellis: John Joiner Ellis joined the 18th Regiment of Foot (Royal Irish) in America 21 Jan. 1773. Although Ellis was listed in a 1774 army list as holding the rank of lieutenant in the regiment, he may, like many other British officers, have held a higher rank in the army or for the duration of his service in America (BRITISH FIELD OFFICERSA List of the General and Field-officers, As They Rank in the Army. 7 vols. London, 1754–78., 72).

   Eden, Ellis, and the Dulanys were on their way to Williamsburg. Purdie and Dixon’s Virginia Gazette for 9 Sept. 1773 reported that “Sunday last his Excellency Robert Eden, Esquire, Governour of Maryland, arrived in this City [Williamsburg] in Order to qualify to his new Commission before the Commander in Chief of this Colony, agreeable to Instructions from the Government, which having performed he sat out upon his Return on Wednesday Morning. He was accompanied by Captain Ellis of the Royal Irish, and Daniel Dulany, and Benjamin Dulany, Esquires.” Upon the death of the sixth Baron Baltimore in 1771, the Maryland proprietorship had devolved upon Henry Harford, illegitimate son of Lord Baltimore. By an order in council dated 5 Mar. 1773, the proprietary lieutenant governor was required, upon this change of proprietorship, to take an oath to uphold the acts of trade and navigation and give security thereof. This oath was to be administered by the governor of Virginia (MD. ARCHIVESArchives of Maryland. 72 vols. Baltimore, 1883–1972., 63:423–25).

28. Mr. Tilghman went away after Breakfast & Mr. Digges & his Sisters in the Afternoon.

29. Govr. Eden, & the other Gentn. went away after breakfast. I continued at home all day.

30. Rid to the Mill & Mill Plantation—Muddy hole & into the Neck.

31. At home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

Augt. 1st. Weather clear and Warm, Wind Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. Warm forenoon—a little Rain in the Afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. Still Warm. Forenoon a little Cloudy with some Rain. Afternoon clear.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Clear with but little Wind & pleasant.


Title: [Diary entry: 6 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

6. Flying Clouds with the Wind pretty fresh from the Southwest. Afternoon Cloudy—with a little Rain in the Evening. Weather pleasant.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

8. Very warm with Clouds in the Afternoon but no Rain.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Cloudy forenoon with appearances of Rain, but none fell.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10. Very warm with no wind in the forenoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 11 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

11. Fine showers at different periods through the day being gentle & general in appearance.


Title: [Diary entry: 15 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

15. Still warm & clear.


Title: [Diary entry: 16 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

16. Rather Cooler but pleasant notwithstanding.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17. Clear and pretty warm with but little Wind, and that Southerly. Pretty Shower of Rain.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Calm still, & clear and very warm especially in the afternoon.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. Wind at No. West & somewhat Cool in the Forenoon Warmer afterwards.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. Very warm with some appearances of Rain but none fell here.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. Clear with but little Wind and that Southerly. Also warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. Clear and pretty warm, especially in the Afternoon. But little Wind and that Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 24 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

24. Clear and Cool, especially in the forenoon. Wind being fresh from the Northwest.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

27. Clear and cool; Wind very fresh from the Northwest all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29. Quite calm all day—also clear, warm, and growing.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30. Calm, Clear, and tolerably warm for the Season being.


Title: [Diary entry: 31 August 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 31st. Wind fresh all day from the Southward with fine Rain now and then but not enough to wet any thing.


Title: Acct. of the Weather in Augt. [1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

Augt. 1st. Weather clear and Warm, Wind Southerly.

2. Warm forenoon—a little Rain in the Afternoon.

3. Still Warm. Forenoon a little Cloudy with some Rain. Afternoon clear.

4. A Great deal of Rain fell this day and Night ground being throughly wet.

5. Clear with but little Wind & pleasant.

6. Flying Clouds with the Wind pretty fresh from the Southwest. Afternoon Cloudy—with a little Rain in the Evening. Weather pleasant.

7. Warm.

8. Very warm with Clouds in the Afternoon but no Rain.

9. Cloudy forenoon with appearances of Rain, but none fell.

10. Very warm with no wind in the forenoon.

11. Fine showers at different periods through the day being gentle & general in appearance.

12th. Warm, with little or no Wind throughout the day.

13. Again warm with the Wind pretty fresh from the Southwd. with Clouds & much appeare. of Rain in the Afternoon but none fell here.

14. Very warm with great Rain to the No. West. None or very little fell here.

15. Still warm & clear.

16. Rather Cooler but pleasant notwithstanding.

17. Clear and pretty warm with but little Wind, and that Southerly. Pretty Shower of Rain.

18. Calm still, & clear and very warm especially in the afternoon.

19. Wind at No. West & somewhat Cool in the Forenoon Warmer afterwards.

20. Very warm with some appearances of Rain but none fell here.

21. Clear with but little Wind and that Southerly. Also warm.

22. Clear and pretty warm, especially in the Afternoon. But little Wind and that Southerly.

23. Tolerably Cool Wind Northwardly with some appearances of Rain but little of which fell here.

24. Clear and Cool, especially in the forenoon. Wind being fresh from the Northwest.

25. Cool in the forenoon, but warmer afterwards; Wind Easterly.

26. Wind fresh from the Eastward all day. About Noon it set in to Raining & continued to do so more or less all day.

27. Clear and cool; Wind very fresh from the Northwest all day.

28. Warm again, with very little Wind and that Southerly.

29. Quite calm all day—also clear, warm, and growing.

30. Calm, Clear, and tolerably warm for the Season being.

31st. Wind fresh all day from the Southward with fine Rain now and then but not enough to wet any thing.


Title: [Diary entry: 2 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

2. Rid to Belvoir, Mill, & Mill Plantation. Found Mr. Magowan here upon my return.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. At home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 4 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

4. Went with Mr. Magowan &ca. to the Barbicue at Accatinck.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Went up with him and Miss Nelly Calvert to Alexa. Church. Returnd to Dinner.


Title: [Diary entry: 6 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

6. At home all day. Mr. Wilper came to Dinner and stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

8. Mrs. Craig, Mrs. McCarty, Mrs. Chichester & Miss Nancy McCarty came here to Dinner & stayd all Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. The Company that came Yesterday went away after breakfast except Nancy McCarty. Mrs. Stewart of Annap[oli]s & her Son & Daughter, as also Mr. Geo. Digges & his Sisters Teresa & Nancy came to Dinnr. & returnd. Mr. B. Brown also came to Dinr. & stayd the Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

10. Mr. Brown, as also Mr. Magowan went away after Breakfast. I continued at home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 12. Govr. Eden, Captn. Ellis, Mr. Dulany, Mr. Lee & Mr. Fendal came to Dinner & stayd all Night as did Mr. F. Willis Junr.


Title: [Diary entry: 13 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

13. All the Gentlemen except Mr. Fendal & Mr. Lee went away after breakfast. Mr. Herbert & Mr. Miller came to Dinner & stayd all Night. In the Evening Mr. Tilghman also came.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. All the Gentlemen went away after breakfast.


Title: [Diary entry: 16 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

16. Rid into the Neck to the Plantations there. In the Aftern. Mr. Robt. Harrison came here.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17. At home all day. In the Afternoon Mr. Harrison went away. GW paid Harrison on this day £5 for sundry legal opinions (General Ledger BGeneral Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers., folio 93).


Title: [Diary entry: 18 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Went to a Barbicue of my own giving at Accotinck. Mr. Robt. Alexander & his Bror. George came home with me.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. The two Mr. Alexanders went away after breakfast. My Brother Sam—his Wife & Two children came to Dinner.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. I went up to Court, & returnd in the Afternoon. Colo. Mason, & Mr. Fendal came with me.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 21. Colo. Mason & Mr. Fendal went away after Breakfast. I contind. at home all day. Mr. Robt. Hooe dind & lodgd here.


Title: [Diary entry: 22 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

22. My Brother and my self rid to my Mill & returnd to Dinner.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. At home all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. I set of for Annapolis Races. Dined at Rollins’s & got into Annapolis between five & Six Oclock. Spent the Evening & lodged at the Governors.


Title: [Diary entry: 28 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

28. Again Dined at the Govrs. and went to the Play & Ball in the Evening.


Title: [Diary entry: 29 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

29. Dined at Mr. Sprigs & went to the Play in the Evening.


Title: [Diary entry: 30 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

30th. Dined at Mr. Ridouts & spent the Afternoon & Evening at Mr. Jenifers.


Title: [Diary entry: 1 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

Septr. 1. Wind fresh all day from the Southward with small Showers of Rain.


Title: [Diary entry: 3 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

3. Clear and Warm in the forenoon with but little Wind. Evening Cloudy & like for Rain very little fell however.


Title: [Diary entry: 5 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

5. Clear and Cool. Wind pretty fresh from the No. West.


Title: [Diary entry: 8 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

8. Clear, calm, and warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 9 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

9. Clear, Calm and still again also warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 10 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 10. Much such a day as the one preceeding there being very little Wind & Warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 12 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

12. Very Warm without any Wind all day.


Title: [Diary entry: 14 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

14. Another Misty Morning, with great appearances of Rain all day—only a little fell however.


Title: [Diary entry: 15 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

15. Clear and Cool Wind still at No. East & fresh.


Title: [Diary entry: 17 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

17. Quite Calm, clear, & warm Morning being foggey.


Title: [Diary entry: 18 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

18. Again Foggy; & somewhat Cloudy. Day very close & Warm.


Title: [Diary entry: 19 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

19. Some, but not much, Rain fell in the Night. Day for the most part Cloudy with the wind at East.


Title: [Diary entry: 20 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

20. Clear and warm with the Wind Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 21 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

21. Also clear and warm—wind in the same place.


Title: [Diary entry: 23 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

23. Still Warm & Clear—Wind Blowing very fresh from the So. West.


Title: [Diary entry: 25 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

25. Clear with a little Wind from the Eastward—a little in the Night.


Title: [Diary entry: 26 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

26. Clear and very warm with but little Wind.


Title: [Diary entry: 27 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

27. Clear & very warm with but little Wind and that Southerly.


Title: [Diary entry: 28 September 1773]
From: Washington, George
To:

 28. Still Clear and very warm Wind fresh from the Southwd.