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Title	Daily Entry
14 May 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW had dinner at Philadelphia merchant Thomas Willing’s home.
13 May 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. It rained a little bit in the forenoon. GW had dinner with all members of the Congress at the City Tavern.
12 May 1775	GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. GW had dinner at Daniel Smith’s City Tavern with delegates from the Congress.
11 May 1775	GW at the State House in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. During this day’s session, the delegates decided to keep their proceedings private.
10 May 1775	GW attended the first meeting of the Second Continental Congress, which was held in the Philadelphia State House. The Congress was meant to plan further responses to the British government.
05 May 1775	GW ate breakfast at Mrs. Ramsay’s and stayed in Baltimore, Md. at The Fountain Inn with other delegates to the Second Continental Congress, from Va. and N.C.
03 May 1775	GW at Mount Vernon. GW’s friend Bryan Fairfax left Mount Vernon, but Maj. Horatio Gates stayed all day. Col. Richard Henry Lee and his brother, Thomas, and Col. Charles Carter, Jr. visited.
17 April 1775	GW in Alexandria, Va., and Mount Vernon. He traveled with Col. George Mason to elect delegates to the Va. Convention from Fairfax County. GW and Charles Broadwater were re-elected.
18 January 1775	GW at Alexandria, Va., where his diary indicates that he spent “all day” in committee.
17 January 1775	GW in Alexandria, Va., where he spent the day “Under Arms” and chaired the Committee of Fairfax County in the evening.

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