Business Enterprises/Personal Finances

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Title Daily Entry
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.

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