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27 July 1775

GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  His General Orders defined how to deal with deserters and appointed John Trumbull, Jr. as aide-de-camp to GW.

20 July 1775

GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

23 June 1775

GW left Philadelphia for the American camp in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GW was accompanied by Maj. Gen. Charles Lee, Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler, one of his Aides-de-camp Maj.

20 June 1775

GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. He wrote two letters today.

19 June 1775

GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. His commission as General and Commander-in-Chief of the United Colonies army is dated this day.

18 June 1775

GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. He had dinner at Vauxhall, a tavern owned by Thomas Mullen near the Schuylkill River.

15 June 1775

GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress.  GW dined at Burns’s Tavern.  He spent the evening with his new committee drafting army regulations.

27 April 1775

GW spent the day at Mount Vernon. William Hepburn, who owned a ropewalk GW had patronized, and Mr. Lloyd of Pa. continued their visit.

24 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. GW’s brother John Washington, Robert Adam, Dumfries, Va. merchant Andrew Leitch, and his wife, Margaretta Leitch, left Mount Vernon.

22 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon and Alexandria, Va. He rode with his brother, John, to Alexandria, Va., and returned to Mount Vernon for dinner.

 

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