Family/Marriage

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

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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.

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