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| 07 March 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that he sent William Stevens, who was replacing the ill James Cleveland, and a team of people to develop his frontier lands on the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. He also wrote that Dr. James Craik went with Lund Washington to visit James Cleveland. |
Books/Library, Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Land Interests |
| 06 March 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. Col. Benjamin Harrison and Capt. James Wood left in the morning. Mrs. Sarah Barnes and her granddaughter Miss Betcy Ramsey stayed for breakfast but left afterward. |
Agriculture, Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Land Interests, Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 05 March 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote that he had been home all day. Col. Richard Lee and his personal physician Dr. James Craik both visited for the night.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 04 March 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He recorded in his diary that he went hunting, but found nothing. He also hosted Col. Benjamin Harrison and Capt. James Wood for dinner and the night. |
Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 03 March 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. His guests, Dr. Walter Hanson Jenifer, his wife Ann, and Mrs. Sinah Ball McCarty of Pope’s Creek Va. all left after breakfast. GW was at home for the rest of the day. |
Agriculture, Books/Library, Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 02 March 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that Dr. Walter Hanson Jenifer, his wife Ann, and Mrs. Sinah Ball McCarty of Pope’s Creek, Va. had dinner at Mount Vernon and stayed the night. |
American Independence, Friends, Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 01 March 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He reported in his diary that he and his wife Martha hosted Mrs. Sarah Barnes, her granddaughter Miss Betcy Ramsey, and Mordecai Redd.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 28 February 1775 |
GW wrote in his diary that he and his wife Martha went up to Alexandria, Va. for a day trip and returned home for dinner.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 27 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. GW and his wife Martha had hosted Mrs. Craik for the night. Her husband, GW’s personal physician Dr. James Craik, came to pick her up after breakfast.
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Food and Dining, Friends |
| 26 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that he and his wife Martha went to Pohick Church and then dined at Capt. Daniel McCarty’s. They also hosted Mrs. Craik, the wife of GW’s personal physician Dr. James Craik. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Food and Dining |
| 25 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He dined with Daniel Jenifer. Additionally, he signed Articles of Agreement with William Skilling, who had worked for him since the 1760’s, stating that Skilling would work in a variety of capacities on GW’s western lands. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Diplomacy, Indians, Politics and Political Thought |
| 24 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. Dr. James Craik left Mount Vernon early in the morning, while Va. politician Robert Rutherford stayed for dinner and left afterwards.
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Food and Dining |
| 23 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. Dr. James Craik spent all day with GW, and John Corse and Va. politician Robert Rutherford joined him for dinner.
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Food and Dining |
| 22 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. This day marked GW’s forty-third birthday. He and Martha dined at Warburton Manor, the residence of George Digges. Dr. James Craik, GW’s personal physician, visited him in the afternoon. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Food and Dining, Holidays |
| 21 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He dined with Dr. William Rumney and Capt. Thomas Marshall. Marshall had come to offer GW command of the Fauquier County Independent Company. GW also met with William Grayson, a lawyer and fox hunting companion, and Colchester merchant Alexander Henderson. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Military Leadership and Strategy |
| 20 February 1775 |
GW in Alexandria, Va. for the selection of delegates to go to a convention in Richmond on 20 March. |
Politics and Political Thought |
| 19 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. According to his diary, he spent the day alone at home.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 17 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that he was home alone all day. Alexander Cowan wrote GW a letter requesting that GW pay the money Valentine Crawford owed Capt. William McGachen on GW’s account from almost a year ago. |
Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Land Interests, Transportation/Roads/Canals |
| 16 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. According to his diary, GW stayed at home all day. Dr. William Rumney left after breakfast and George Diggs, who lived across the river at Warburton manor, left after dinner. |
Food and Dining, Land Interests, Military Leadership and Strategy |
| 18 February 1775 |
GW left Mount Vernon for a day trip to Alexandria, Va. to meet with and exercise the Independent Company, according to his diary. GW also wrote a promissory note to John Harper indicating that he would pay him for the slave, Tom, whom he had sent to Ohio territory with James Cleveland. |
American Independence, Business Enterprises/Personal Finances, Slaves and Slavery |
| 15 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. In his diary GW says he went hunting but did not find anything. He hosted George Diggs, who lived across the river at Warburton Manor, and Dr. William Rumney. |
Land Interests, Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 14 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. In his diary GW reported that he went fox hunting and killed a fox. He hosted brothers Robert and George Alexander of Fairfax County, Va. He also noted that John Muir, Dr. William Rumney and, Capt. John Harper lodged at Mount Vernon as well.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 13 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He recorded in his diary that he was at home all day. George Diggs, who lived at Warburton Manor across the river from Mount Vernon, visited him in the afternoon. |
Land Interests, Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 12 February 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that it snowed in the forenoon. He also said that Va. landowner Robert Ashby and his brother went away while he stayed at home.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |
| 11 February 1775 |
GW’s Quaker business acquaintance William Milnor left GW’s home. GW went hunting with his stepson John Parke Custis, and while they saw a fox, they did not kill anything. Va. landowner Robert Ashby and his brother stayed the night. There was some snow during the day.
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Recreation/Leisure/Tastes |