Mount Vernon

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Title Daily Entry
08 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia.

18 March 1792

GW at Philadelphia.  GW wrote to Samuel Potts regarding the settlement of the estate of Margaret Green Savage, which had plagued him with issues since the 1760’s.

07 February 1792

GW at Philadelphia.  GW wrote to his in-law Alexander Spotswood about Spotswood’s son, saying that he could have a place in Capt. Thomas Truxtun’s voyage to India.

31 March 1791

GW at Mount Vernon. GW, in his diary, wrote that he remained at Mount Vernon until 7 April and visited his plantations each day.

30 March 1791

GW at Georgetown, Md., and traveling to Mount Vernon.

07 March 1791

GW at Philadelphia. Lafayette wrote to GW, describing his difficult position of being attacked by all sides in the French Revolution.

28 May 1762

GW at Mount Vernon.  He reported in his diary tobacco planting and horse breeding.  GW wrote Robert Cary & Co. on business matters, but primarily related to disappointing tobacco sales.

14 March 1797

GW at Washington, D.C., where he dined at the home of Thomas Law and presumably saw Law’s wife, Eliza, Martha Washington’s eldest granddaughter.  GW lodged with Thomas Peters whose wife, Martha, wa

25 March 1797

GW at Mount Vernon, where he oversaw repairs to the mansion house. He had hired painters but sought  proper workmen to fix a chimney.

29 March 1797

GW presumably at Mount Vernon.

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