Business Enterprises/Personal Finances

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Title Daily Entry
17 March 1789

From Mount Vernon, GW wrote lawyer John Marshall, imploring him to settle a long-standing dispute with the estate of William Armsted concerning a piece of property on the Ohio River.

15 March 1789

From Mount Vernon, GW wrote Clement Biddle, to whom he trusted his Philadelphia business interests. He lamented that Biddle did not ship the buckwheat he wanted as fertilizer.

12 March 1789

From Mount Vernon, GW wrote to Battaile Muse, his agent for collecting rents from his tenants. GW gave him instructions on financial matters related to managing his lands, including taxes.

08 March 1789

GW presumably at Mount Vernon.

06 March 1789

From Mount Vernon, GW wrote to Alexandria, Va. merchant and shipowner Richard Conway. He thanked him for his promise of a loan and agreed to accept it at Md.’s interest rate of six percent.

04 March 1789

GW at Mount Vernon, where he wrote Richard Conway, an Alexandria, Va. merchant and shipowner, explaining his current financial difficulty.

29 January 1790

GW in N.Y. In his diary, GW wrote that he rode his horse in the morning. GW continued that he read a letter from Gov. Alexander Martin of N.C. containing a state bill ceding land from N.C.

18 January 1790

GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he had “an Aching tooth, and swelled and inflamed Gum.” GW wrote to former Lt. Col.

14 January 1790

GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that both houses of Congress came to the Presidential Residence to address himself and Cabinet.

06 January 1790

GW in NY. GW wrote to Sarah Bomford, wife of Isaac Bomford.

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