Transportation/Roads/Canals

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Title Daily Entry
27 July 1745

GW on his way to Alexandria, Va., potentially by traveling down the Potomac River.

01 May 1754

GW was en route from Wills Creek, Pa./Md.

29 July 1775

GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

28 July 1775

GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

02 July 1775

GW traveled to Cambridge, Mass., and arrived midday with Maj. Gen.Charles Lee.  He was housed at the house of the president of Harvard College, Samuel Langdon.
 

30 June 1775

GW presumably traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 

09 May 1775

GW had breakfast in Chester, Pa. He had dinner at the City Tavern in Philadelphia, Pa., and spent the night at lawyer Joseph Reed’s home.

 

08 May 1775

GW had breakfast in Charlestown, Md. He travelled through Christiana Bridge, then had dinner and spent the night in Wilmington, Del. GW noted that it was raining on and off.

 

07 May 1775

GW had breakfast at Cheyn’s Tavern, which was located thirteen miles to the east of Baltimore, Md. He had dinner at John Rodgers’ tavern, in Susquehanna Lower Ferry, Md.

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.

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