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Title Daily Entry
20 February 1792

GW at Philadelphia. James Mercer wrote GW from Fredericksburg, Va. requesting to use GW’s name in recovering a debt owed to the estate of George Mercer.

03 April 1791

GW at Mount Vernon.

27 March 1791

GW traveled from Annapolis to Bladensburg, Md. GW wrote to his secretary Tobias Lear asking him to give Martha “what money she may want,” because she was hesitant to ask for it.

21 March 1791

GW wrote in his diary that he left to begin his tour of the southern states.

14 March 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW recorded paying £25.11 to William Craik, son of GW’s good friend Dr. James Craik, to defray expenses for Craik’s securing vacant land in Md. for him.

05 March 1791

GW at Philadelphia. Through his secretary, GW sent Georgetown, Md.

21 February 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote to County lieutenant George Clendinen, asking his assistance in disposing his holdings along the Kanawha River.

06 February 1791

GW at Philadelphia.

26 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW presented to Congress a copy of a letter from the President of the National Assembly of France, which mourned the passing of Benjamin Franklin.

22 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia, where he commissioned Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Carroll, and David Stuart to survey the District of Territory, later Washington, D.C., under the act for the permanent location of

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