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Title Daily Entry
02 May 1775

James Hendricks, a merchant from Alexandria, Va., who would later serve as an officer with the Va. troops in the Revolutionary War, was one of the many who visited GW on this day.  Maj.

01 May 1775

GW went up to Alexandria, Va., to meet the Independent Company, but returned to Mount Vernon at night.  Alexandria, Va. merchant William Herbert came to visit.

30 April 1775

GW went to Alexandria, Va., and returned in the afternoon.

29 April 1775

GW spent the day at Mount Vernon.

26 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon and Alexandria, Va. He traveled to Alexandria to meet with the Fairfax County Independent Company.

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.

23 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. Robert Adam, Dumfries, Va. merchant Andrew Leitch, and his wife, Margaretta Leitch, visited.

21 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He dined with Capt. Philip Curtis, settling GW’s sale of his brig Farmer to Thomas Contee of Md.

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.

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