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Title	Daily Entry
20 June 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. He wrote two letters today.
19 June 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. His commission as General and Commander-in-Chief of the United Colonies army is dated this day.
10 June 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined at Col. Samuel Griffin’s home and spent the evening in his own room. GW recorded spending money on silk ferreting.
14 June 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined with a member of the Meredith family, either Reese or his son Samuel, both Philadelphia merchants.
16 June 1775	GW at the State House in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress.
15 June 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined at Burns’s Tavern. He spent the evening with his new committee drafting army regulations.
12 June 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined at the City Tavern before spending the night in his lodgings.
11 June 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW went to church in the morning.
08 June 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW dined at Pa. representative John Dickinson’s home and spent the evening at his home.
07 June 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW’s committee reported the estimate of the amount of money they needed to raised to the whole Congress.

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