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Title Daily Entry
29 January 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that it was relatively cold and cloudy with light winds.

04 January 1775

Charles Lee left Mount Vernon.

07 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon for the entire day. GW wrote in his diary that Richard Adams left after breakfast.

06 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. All of his visitors from the previous day left, except for Rector Walter Magowan. Richard Adams came in the evening and stayed the night.

05 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon with the same men as the day before: lawyer James Tilghman, Jr., James Buchanan, Alexandria, Va. merchants William Herbert and John Fitzgerald, as well as Daniel Carroll, Jr.

03 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote a letter to Va. Gov. Lord Dunmore about the Proclamation of 1754, which had asked volunteers to serve in the army in return for land east of the Ohio River.

31 March 1775

GW left Fredericksburg, Va., to return home. He had dinner in Dumfries, Va., and arrived at Mount Vernon around sunset.

26 March 1775

GW stayed in Wilton, Va., all day, where there was a misting rain.

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.

18 March 1775

GW spent a clear and pleasant day in Fredericksburg, Va. GW spent money repairing his saddle and on his mother.

 

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