Diplomacy
Title | Daily Entry |
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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. |