Politics and Political Thought
| Title | Daily Entry |
|---|---|
| 04 January 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. He received rent from his tenant Benjamin Dulany for the year 1790. |
| 03 January 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote to the Senate nominating Abraham Ogden as Attorney for the United States in the District of N.J., which was confirmed the next day. |
| 02 January 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. He wrote Thomas Jefferson to specify certain boundaries of the future capital of the nation along the Potomac River. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 01 April 1797 |
GW attended a dinner apparently given in his honor at the Masonic Lodge in Alexandria, Va. In his reply to a complimentary address, GW reportedly said: “If it has pleased the supreme architect of |
| 03 April 1797 |
GW at Mount Vernon, where he wrote his step-grandson George Washington Parke Custis with an update on mansion repairs and praised him for his improved writing. |
| 05 April 1797 |
GW at Mount Vernon. |
| 11 April 1797 |
GW presumably at Mount Vernon. |
| 04 February 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he received, from Congress, an act that extended Federal import duties to N.C., which had just recently ratified the Constitution. |