Transportation/Roads/Canals

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Title Daily Entry
11 March 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote to Daniel Carroll explaining that poor road conditions could delay his meeting with Carroll and the other federal district commissioners at Georgetown, Md.

10 March 1791

GW at Philadelphia.

08 May 1754

GW was in Little Meadows, Maryland. A note in his May 9th letter to Va. Lt. Gov.

07 May 1754

GW was near Little Meadows, Md. where he would arrive by 9 May 1754.

06 May 1754

GW was en route from Wills Creek, Pa./Md., which he left on 29 April, to Redstone Creek on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania.

05 May 1754

GW was still marching with his men from Wills Creek, Pa./Md. to Redstone Creek in Pa., at which the military was to build a temporary fortification.

03 May 1754

GW was still marching with his men from Wills Creek, Pa./Md. to Redstone Creek, Pa., where the military was to build a temporary fortification.

24 January 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. Doctor William Rumney “visited the Sick”--most likely slaves.  Rumney returned for dinner and stayed overnight.  Alexander Ross came only for dinner.

05 March 1789

From Mount Vernon, GW wrote a letter to Philadelphia merchant Samuel Meredith.

26 January 1790

GW in N.Y. In his diary, he noted that he spent the morning on his horse and received visitors in the afternoon. GW also read a letter given to him from Secretary of War Henry Knox.

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