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Title Daily Entry
24 June 1775

GW in New Brunswick, N.J., en route to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

07 June 1775

GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress.  GW’s committee reported the estimate of the amount of money they needed to raised to the whole Congress.

21 May 1775

GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. He dined with Richard Willing, who would later serve as a captain in the Revolutionary War.

12 May 1775

GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW had dinner at Daniel Smith’s City Tavern with delegates from the Congress.

25 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He was joined by William Johnson, who dined and left after consulting GW on the Fairfax County Independent Company’s new uniforms.

20 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. Gen. Charles Lee and Dr. William Rumney left after breakfast.

18 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He spent time with Gen. Charles Lee as they traveled to Robert Adams’s Fishing Landing. Sisters Mrs. Thomas Blackburn and Mrs.

13 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. GW hosted his stepson John Parke Custis and his wife, Mrs. Newman, and Mrs. Anne Clifton Slaughter.

10 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that he was at home alone all day.

09 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. GW and Martha attended Pohick church and came home for dinner. They hosted Dr. James Craik, GW’s personal physician, and Daniel Jenifer of Port Tobacco, Md. for the night.

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