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04 July 1775 |
GW in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GW wrote an address to the Mass. provincial congress expressing his appreciation and gratitude for their general support and faith in the army. |
Health and Medicine, Military Leadership and Strategy |
03 July 1775 |
GW in Cambridge, Massachusetts. General Orders were written from the Headquarters of Cambridge ordering the repositioning of regiments to guard against a sudden British attack. |
Military Leadership and Strategy |
02 July 1775 |
GW traveled to Cambridge, Mass., and arrived midday with Maj. Gen.Charles Lee. He was housed at the house of the president of Harvard College, Samuel Langdon. |
Transportation/Roads/Canals |
01 July 1775 |
GW presumably traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler wrote GW a letter updating him on the location of Brig. Gen. David Wooster’s troops and of sightings of British transports on the coast of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. |
Diplomacy, Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
30 June 1775 |
GW presumably traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
Transportation/Roads/Canals |
29 June 1775 |
GW presumably traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Del. Delegates wrote GW a letter from Philadelphia recommending John Parke for military service. He was later appointed assistant quartermaster general of the Continental Army on 16 Aug., 1775. Va. |
Indians, Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
28 June 1775 |
GW traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress, wrote a letter from Philadelphia to GW, informing him of several resolutions passed by Congress regarding instructions to Gen. Philip Schuyler, in charge of the N.Y. |
Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
27 June 1775 |
GW traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gen. Philip Schuyler parted company with GW at New Rochelle to return to New York City in order to fulfill his duties there commanding its defense. |
Military Leadership and Strategy |
26 June 1775 |
GW left New York City and lodged for the night at King’s Bridge at the Northern end of Manhattan Island. |
American Independence, Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
25 June 1775 |
GW arrived in New York City, en route to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He wrote three letters today. The first was to Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler. GW gave instructions to Schuyler for leading the American militia forces in New York. GW told Schuyler to prevent Gov. |
Military Leadership and Strategy |
24 June 1775 |
GW in New Brunswick, N.J., en route to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Valentine Crawford, a man hired by GW to survey his land on the Youghiogheny, near Chartiers Creek, and along the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, wrote him a letter. |
Land Interests, Military Leadership and Strategy |
23 June 1775 |
GW left Philadelphia for the American camp in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GW was accompanied by Maj. Gen. Charles Lee, Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler, one of his Aides-de-camp Maj. Thomas Mifflin, and his future secretary Lt. Col. Joseph Reed. |
Family/Marriage, Military Leadership and Strategy |
22 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. Two letters and a set of instructions from Congress were written to him on this day. |
Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
21 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. |
Politics and Political Thought |
20 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. He wrote two letters today. The first was to the “Officers of the Five Virginia Independent Companies,” from Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier, Spotsylvania, and Richmond. |
Family/Marriage, Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
19 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. His commission as General and Commander-in-Chief of the United Colonies army is dated this day. He was given full power and authority to make whatever decisions he deemed necessary “for the good and Welfare” of the colonies. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Family/Marriage, Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
10 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined at Col. Samuel Griffin’s home and spent the evening in his own room. GW recorded spending money on silk ferreting. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Food and Dining, Politics and Political Thought |
14 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined with a member of the Meredith family, either Reese or his son Samuel, both Philadelphia merchants. GW then spent the evening at home. |
Food and Dining, Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
17 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. He wrote a letter to Brig. Gen. Horatio Gates, but the letter has yet to be found. He dined at Burns’s Tavern and spent the evening at his lodgings. |
Food and Dining, Military Leadership and Strategy |
18 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. He had dinner at Vauxhall, a tavern owned by Thomas Mullen near the Schuylkill River. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Family/Marriage, Military Leadership and Strategy |
16 June 1775 |
GW at the State House in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. In today’s proceedings, John Hancock, president of the Congress, officially informed GW that he had been unanimously chosen as General and Commander-in-Chief of the American military. |
Food and Dining, Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
15 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined at Burns’s Tavern. He spent the evening with his new committee drafting army regulations. |
American Independence, Family/Marriage, Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
13 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined at Burns’s Tavern and spent the night at his lodgings. The weather was clear and cool. According to his cash accounts, GW gave a bill of exchange to the firm of Willing, Morris, & Company. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Food and Dining |
12 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined at the City Tavern before spending the night in his lodgings. He remarks that the weather was warm, but that it was cooler after the showers at noon. |
Food and Dining, Politics and Political Thought |
11 June 1775 |
GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW went to church in the morning. Afterwards, he dined at Philadelphia merchant Henry Hill’s home near the Schuylkill Falls and returned to his lodgings in the afternoon. GW spent money on posting letters today. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Food and Dining, Politics and Political Thought, Religion |