GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. It rained a little bit in the forenoon. GW had dinner with all members of the Congress at the City Tavern. He spent the night in his lodgings at cabinetmaker Benjamin Randolph’s home.

GW at the State House in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. During this day’s session, the delegates decided to keep their proceedings private.

GW had breakfast in Chester, Pa. He had dinner at the City Tavern in Philadelphia, Pa., and spent the night at lawyer Joseph Reed’s home.

GW had breakfast at Cheyn’s Tavern, which was located thirteen miles to the east of Baltimore, Md. He had dinner at John Rodgers’ tavern, in Susquehanna Lower Ferry, Md. Rogers was a Scottish emigrant who came to America in 1760 and eventually served as a colonel during the Revolutionary War.

GW ate breakfast at Mrs. Ramsay’s and stayed in Baltimore, Md. at The Fountain Inn with other delegates to the Second Continental Congress, from Va. and N.C. Three companies of militia escorted them to the inn.

GW at Mount Vernon. GW’s friend Bryan Fairfax left Mount Vernon, but Maj. Horatio Gates stayed all day. Col. Richard Henry Lee and his brother, Thomas, and Col. Charles Carter, Jr. visited. Lee had served with GW in the House of Burgesses as the representative of Westmoreland County.

GW went up to Alexandria, Va., to meet the Independent Company, but returned to Mount Vernon at night.  Alexandria, Va. merchant William Herbert came to visit. GW reported in his diary the weather as being “exceeding hot.”

GW spent the day at Mount Vernon.

GW spent the day at Mount Vernon. William Hepburn, who owned a ropewalk GW had patronized, and Mr. Lloyd of Pa. continued their visit.

GW totaled his transactions that he had made to care for his mother, Mary Washington.

GW at Mount Vernon. He was joined by William Johnson, who dined and left after consulting GW on the Fairfax County Independent Company’s new uniforms. Thomas Davis arrived to buy gunpowder for the Spotsylvania Independent Company and then left.

GW at Mount Vernon. Robert Adam, Dumfries, Va. merchant Andrew Leitch, and his wife, Margaretta Leitch, visited.

GW released an advertisement in Fairfax County regarding a reward for two servants, a Bristol-born joiner and a Scottish brick maker, who ran away 19 April.