American Independence

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Title Daily Entry
25 March 1775

GW attended the Second Va. Convention in Richmond and dined with tavern owner Gabriel Galts and his family once again. He also visited Anne Harrison Randolph, widow of William Randolph.

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.

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.

26 February 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote to Samuel Magaw, rector of St.

01 April 1797

GW attended a dinner apparently given in his honor at the Masonic Lodge in Alexandria, Va.  In his reply to a complimentary address, GW reportedly said: “If it has pleased the supreme architect of

05 April 1797

GW at Mount Vernon.

23 January 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. Doctor William Rumney came during the afternoon.

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