Land Interests
| 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. |