GW was in Little Meadows, Maryland. A note in his May 9th letter to Va. Lt. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie indicated GW was likely overseeing the construction of a bridge to the Ohio Company store at Redstone Creek, Pa. on this day.

In the Contrecoeur copy of GW’s diary, an entry for 8 May stated that GW met some traders from the Ohio area who contradicted earlier reports of French possession of the mouth of Redstone Creek, Pennsylvania.