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| 20 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. Gen. Charles Lee and Dr. William Rumney left after breakfast. |
Food and Dining, Land Interests, Military Leadership and Strategy |
| 19 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. Sisters Mrs. Thomas Blackburn and Mrs. William Brown left after dinner. Dr. William Rumney arrived in the afternoon.
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Food and Dining, Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 18 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He spent time with Gen. Charles Lee as they traveled to Robert Adams’s Fishing Landing. Sisters Mrs. Thomas Blackburn and Mrs. William Brown dined with them and stayed the night. |
Land Interests, Military Leadership and Strategy, Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 17 April 1775 |
GW in Alexandria, Va., and Mount Vernon. He traveled with Col. George Mason to elect delegates to the Va. Convention from Fairfax County. GW and Charles Broadwater were re-elected.
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Politics and Political Thought |
| 16 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon all day. He wrote in his diary that Col. George Mason visited in the afternoon. Gen. Charles Lee, future cavalry officer Henry Lee , Jr., merchant William Thompson of Colchester, Va., and Frederick County, Va. sheriff Angus McDonald came to dinner. |
Food and Dining |
| 15 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He traveled to Alexandria, Va., to the muster of the Independent Company and returned very late that night.
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Military Leadership and Strategy |
| 14 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. In his diary he wrote that he hosted Dr. William Rumney and Alexandria, Va. merchant Robert Adam for dinner and the night and ship captain Lyonel Bradstreet, who would be taking over GW’s ship Farmer, for dinner. |
American Independence, Food and Dining |
| 13 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. GW hosted his stepson John Parke Custis and his wife, Mrs. Newman, and Mrs. Anne Clifton Slaughter. |
Land Interests |
| 12 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that Capt. Saunders left after dinner and he hosted John Lloyd for dinner and the night. His visitor Andrew Stewart left after dinner. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Food and Dining |
| 11 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. GW wrote in his diary that he was home all day, but hosted Capt. Saunders for the night. Thomas Contee, a member of a firm engaged in the tobacco trade, wrote GW that he would buy GW’s brigantine, Farmer.
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Business Enterprises/Personal Finances |
| 10 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that he was at home alone all day. James Cleveland, who had left on his task of developing GW’s western lands, wrote GW a letter describing his difficulties in purchasing canoes, bacon, and other goods.
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Food and Dining, Land Interests |
| 09 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. GW and Martha attended Pohick church and came home for dinner. They hosted Dr. James Craik, GW’s personal physician, and Daniel Jenifer of Port Tobacco, Md. for the night. |
Land Interests, Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 20 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon all day. His stepdaughter-in-law’s sister, Elizabeth “Betsey” Calvert, returned home after a rather lengthy visit. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Family/Marriage |
| 19 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon for dinner, which he ate alone. He wrote in his diary that there was a mix of rain and snow through the day.
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Food and Dining |
| 18 January 1775 |
GW at Alexandria, Va., where his diary indicates that he spent “all day” in committee. GW’s diary does not place him at Mount Vernon until 19 Jan., but a letter he wrote William Bronaugh on 18 Jan. reads “Mount Vernon” in its dateline. |
Land Interests, Politics and Political Thought |
| 17 January 1775 |
GW in Alexandria, Va., where he spent the day “Under Arms” and chaired the Committee of Fairfax County in the evening. As chairman, he directed proceedings to the Virginia Gazette for publication. |
Agriculture, American Independence, Books/Library, Military Leadership and Strategy, Politics and Political Thought |
| 16 January 1775 |
GW traveled from Mount Vernon to Alexandria, where he reviewed the Fairfax Independent Company, a voluntary militia not under the royal governor’s control, and also chose members for the Committee of Fairfax County. |
Children, Friends, Military Leadership and Strategy |
| 15 January 1775 |
GW attended Pohick Church. George Mason, his son, Benjamin Tasker Dulany, and Martin Cockburn returned with him to Mount Vernon “& stayed all Night.” GW noted in his diary that the weather was quite “pleasant but rather too warm.”
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Friends, Religion |
| 14 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that he was at home alone.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 13 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He reported in his diary that he was home alone all day. |
Children |
| 12 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that he went fox hunting and found some but did not kill anything.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 11 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon all day. He wrote in his diary that he was alone.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 10 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon all day. In his diary, GW reports a “Mr. Stone” dined there. GW wrote a letter to James Cleveland requesting him to get corn provisions and canoes for transportation to his “Lands on the Ohio.” GW offered Cleveland money for his services. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Food and Dining, Land Interests |
| 09 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon all day. Dr. William Rumney, who had stayed overnight, left after breakfast. Another visitor, “Mrs. Newman,” also “went away after Breakfast.”
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Food and Dining, Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 07 January 1775 |
GW’s visitors (George Digges, his three sisters, and Daniel Carroll, Jr.) left Mount Vernon after breakfast. GW wrote Robert McMickan asking that McMickan not send sugar and other articles to GW, as he would have to return them if they arrived after 1 February. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Food and Dining |