Business Enterprises/Personal Finances
Title | Daily Entry |
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21 January 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia, where he recorded paying interest on two bonds. |
20 January 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote to Timothy Pickering, a former adjutant general of the Continental army. |
17 January 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. GW recorded his donation for the year 1790 to the Alexandrian Charity School for the education of orphan children. |
07 January 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. He donated ten pounds for winter seasonal relief efforts. |
04 January 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. He received rent from his tenant Benjamin Dulany for the year 1790. |
28 May 1762 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He reported in his diary tobacco planting and horse breeding. GW wrote Robert Cary & Co. on business matters, but primarily related to disappointing tobacco sales. |
14 March 1797 |
GW at Washington, D.C., where he dined at the home of Thomas Law and presumably saw Law’s wife, Eliza, Martha Washington’s eldest granddaughter. GW lodged with Thomas Peters whose wife, Martha, wa |
03 April 1797 |
GW at Mount Vernon, where he wrote his step-grandson George Washington Parke Custis with an update on mansion repairs and praised him for his improved writing. |
05 April 1797 |
GW at Mount Vernon. |
06 April 1797 |
GW presumably at Mount Vernon. |