Diplomacy

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Title Daily Entry
13 May 1754

GW was marching throughout the Ohio Valley, leaving Little Meadows, Md. for the Great Crossing of the Youghiogheny River in Pennsylvania.  He did not arrive there at until 18 May.

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

25 March 1797

GW at Mount Vernon, where he oversaw repairs to the mansion house. He had hired painters but sought  proper workmen to fix a chimney.

28 March 1797

GW at Mount Vernon.

The Masons of the Alexandria Lodge invited GW to a dinner that took place with GW in attendance on 1 April.

01 April 1797

GW attended a dinner apparently given in his honor at the Masonic Lodge in Alexandria, Va.  In his reply to a complimentary address, GW reportedly said: “If it has pleased the supreme architect of

06 April 1797

GW presumably at Mount Vernon.

10 April 1797

GW at Mount Vernon, where he wrote Secretary of State Timothy Pickering to acknowledge receipt of an agricultural pamphlet from John Sinclair.

27 January 1790

GW in N.Y.

25 January 1790

GW, in N.Y., wrote in a long diary entry that he received a petition from printer Francis Bailey asking to see his new invention that would prevent the counterfeiting of government documents.

24 January 1790

GW, in N.Y., noted in his diary that he went to St. Paul’s Chapel in the morning, and spent the afternoon writing private letters. He wrote to N.J.

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