Agriculture

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Title	Daily Entry
15 March 1789	From Mount Vernon, GW wrote Clement Biddle, to whom he trusted his Philadelphia business interests. He lamented that Biddle did not ship the buckwheat he wanted as fertilizer.
22 January 1790	GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he exercised with a morning horse ride. GW was impressed by a demonstration of a new wheat threshing machine invented by Friedrich, Baron von Poellnitz. Mrs.
15 January 1790	GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that it snowed all day and that Mrs. Washington hosted few guests.
14 January 1790	GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that both houses of Congress came to the Presidential Residence to address himself and Cabinet.
03 January 1790	GW in N.Y. In his diary, GW noted his attendance at Saint Paul’s Chapel.
07 April 1789	At Mount Vernon, GW received a letter from William Shotwell, surviving partner of Embree and Shotwell, saying that GW’s order of seeds had been sent to Baltimore merchant and shipowner Richard Curs
31 March 1789	From Mount Vernon, GW began preparing to leave home for an unknown period of time.
30 March 1789	From Mount Vernon, GW wrote to his Philadelphia business agent Clement Biddle. He hoped that the buckwheat he needed for fertilizer would arrive in time and ordered fourteen yards of livery lace.
24 March 1789	From Mount Vernon, GW wrote his nephew Robert Lewis to give him instructions on preparing for his new job as GW’s secretary.
22 February 1732	GW was born at his family's home along Pope's Creek, near where that stream enters the Potomac River, in Westmoreland County, Va.

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