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Title Daily Entry
15 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He traveled to Alexandria, Va., to the muster of the Independent Company and returned very late that night.

 

17 January 1775

GW in Alexandria, Va., where he spent the day “Under Arms” and chaired the Committee of Fairfax County in the evening.

16 January 1775

GW traveled from Mount Vernon to Alexandria, where he reviewed the Fairfax Independent Company, a voluntary militia not under the royal governor’s control, and also chose members for the Committee

28 July 1754

GW was presumably navigating the Potomac River en route to Alexandria, Va. where he arrived in early August. On this day, GW wrote a letter to Va. Lt. Gov.

19 July 1754

GW was in Williamsburg with Capt. James Mackay of the independent company from South Carolina.

18 July 1754

GW was in Williamsburg to speak with Va. Lt. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie about the British defeat at Fort Necessity on 3 July. The governor met with the Va.

05 April 1775

GW at Mount Vernon with the same men as the day before: lawyer James Tilghman, Jr., James Buchanan, Alexandria, Va. merchants William Herbert and John Fitzgerald, as well as Daniel Carroll, Jr.

17 March 1775

GW dined with prominent merchant and planter James Hunter, Sr. in King George County, then arrived in Fredericksburg, Va.

16 March 1775

GW in Dumfries, Va. He reviewed the Independent Company of Cadets of Prince William County, then dined and lodged with Andrew Leitch, a merchant and member of the Prince WIlliam County Committee.

08 March 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. Col. Benjamin Harrison, Francis Whiting and Catesby Woodford left before breakfast. Dr. James Craik dined at Mount Vernon and left afterwards.  

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