Family/Marriage
This refers to immediate family members such as: parents, brothers, sisters, spouses, stepchildren and stepgrandchildren.
| Title | Daily Entry |
|---|---|
| 18 March 1789 |
GW at Mount Vernon. GW wrote to James Mercer urgently asking for the payment of the debt from the estate of his deceased father, John Mercer, Esq. |
| 15 March 1789 |
From Mount Vernon, GW wrote Clement Biddle, to whom he trusted his Philadelphia business interests. He lamented that Biddle did not ship the buckwheat he wanted as fertilizer. |
| 30 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. In his diary, GW noted that he spent the morning riding in his coach with Mrs. Washington and his grandchildren. In the afternoon, he walked around the Battery. |
| 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. |
| 18 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he had “an Aching tooth, and swelled and inflamed Gum.” GW wrote to former Lt. Col. |
| 16 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he rode in his coach with Mrs. Washington and their two grandchildren in the early afternoon. |
| 09 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, a prominent woman in British literary and philanthropic circles with whom he had begun a friendly correspondence in 1785. |
| 28 March 1789 |
GW at Mount Vernon. Scottish immigrant Robert Dick wrote assuring GW of the authenticity of the report he had sent on Canada’s politics and economics. |
| 26 March 1789 |
GW wrote his nephew John Dandridge from Mount Vernon, saying that he would gladly purchase Dandridge’s land at the price Col. Lewis had previously set. |
| 24 March 1789 |
From Mount Vernon, GW wrote his nephew Robert Lewis to give him instructions on preparing for his new job as GW’s secretary. |