Diplomacy

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Title Daily Entry
27 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW replied to the President of the National Assembly of France, thanking him for France’s regard for the recently deceased Benjamin Franklin.

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.

25 January 1791

GW presumably traveling from Georgetown to Philadelphia. Lafayette wrote a letter to GW detailing a squabble his troops had with a mob near Paris.

24 January 1791

GW at Georgetown. GW submitted Knox’s 22 Jan. report on frontier skirmishes with Indians to Congress for discussion.

19 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia.

18 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia.

13 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote a letter to Va. Gov. Beverley Randolph declining any agency in a woolen manufactory in Va. because it was a felony to export the machines from Great Britain.

10 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW gave the elderly Mrs. Elizabeth Haynie nine pounds to alleviate her desperate financial situation. Former French tutor John I.

09 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia. Hyacinth de Chappedelaine, a French nobleman and military officer, wrote a letter to GW wishing to continue their good relationship.

03 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote to the Senate nominating Abraham Ogden as Attorney for the United States in the District of N.J., which was confirmed the next day.

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