Family/Marriage

This refers to immediate family members such as: parents, brothers, sisters, spouses, stepchildren and stepgrandchildren.

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Title Daily Entry
07 February 1775

GW at Mount Vernon, where three overnight visitors left after breakfast. In his diary, GW reported snow in the morning but the afternoon as “clear & exceeding pleasant.”

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.

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