Mount Vernon

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Title Daily Entry
29 January 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that it was relatively cold and cloudy with light winds.

28 January 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He spent the day alone.

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.

05 January 1775

GW spent the day at Mount Vernon.

04 January 1775

Charles Lee left Mount Vernon.

03 January 1775

GW spent the day at Mount Vernon.

02 January 1775

GW and Charles Lee took a morning trip from Mount Vernon to Alexandria and returned in the afternoon.   

01 January 1775

GW spent the day at Mount Vernon, where he totaled his gambling losses and winning going back to 28 Feb. 1772. Doctor James Craik left his home after breakfast. 

15 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia. Governor of Surinam Juriaen François de Friderici wrote GW introducing physician and writer David Nassy, an immigrant to the U.S. from Surinam.

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