Family/Marriage
This refers to immediate family members such as: parents, brothers, sisters, spouses, stepchildren and stepgrandchildren.
| Title | Daily Entry |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 31 March 1797 |
GW presumably at Mount Vernon. |
| 03 April 1797 |
GW at Mount Vernon, where he wrote his step-grandson George Washington Parke Custis with an update on mansion repairs and praised him for his improved writing. |
| 21 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He went hunting with his stepson John Parke Custis and killed “a Dog Fox” before returning for dinner. |
| 15 April 1797 |
GW presumably at Mount Vernon. |
| 03 February 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he viewed the house, leased by Alexander Macomb, to which he had decided to move his presidential residence. |
| 01 February 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he decided to rent the former Minister from France’s house in N.Y. as his new presidential residence. |
| 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. |
| 09 April 1797 |
GW at Mount Vernon, where he wrote his nephew George Lewis and expressed his deepest sorrow over the death of his mother, Betty Washington Lewis, who was GW’s sister born in 1733. |
| 19 March 1789 |
From Mount Vernon, GW wrote the son of his good friend Dr. James Craik, William, to inform him of the status of his various land disputes. |