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Title Daily Entry
18 January 1775

GW at Alexandria, Va., where his diary indicates that he spent “all day” in committee.

10 January 1775

GW at Mount Vernon all day. In his diary, GW reports a “Mr. Stone” dined there.

27 January 1775

GW was traveling to Mount Vernon after observing land he had bought from James and George Mercer near Four Mile Run, a creek that flows into the Potomac River.

26 January 1775

GW in Alexandria, Va. He traveled from Mount Vernon to attend a meeting of the trustees for a project to improve navigation on the Potomac River.  No one else, however, arrived for the meeting.

06 January 1775

George Digges and his three sisters, Daniel Carroll, Jr., and Ann “Nancy” Peake visited GW and stayed the night.

03 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote a letter to Va. Gov. Lord Dunmore about the Proclamation of 1754, which had asked volunteers to serve in the army in return for land east of the Ohio River.

27 March 1775

GW returned to Richmond after staying in Wilton, Va. the previous day. He dined at Va. politician Richard Adams’s home.

23 March 1775

GW dined at Patrick Coutts’s home. Coutts was a Richmond merchant living on Shockoe Hill. GW stayed another night at tavern owner Gabriel Galts’ home.  At the Second Va.

21 March 1775

GW dined at Cowley’s Tavern in Richmond and returned to spend the night at Col. Archibald Cary’s.  GW spent the day at the Second Va.

15 March 1775

GW left Mount Vernon for Richmond, Va. He dined in Colchester with Fairfax County Court clerk Peter Wagener and lodged at Col. Thomas Blackburn’s home.

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