GW was traveling to Mount Vernon after observing land he had bought from James and George Mercer near Four Mile Run, a creek that flows into the Potomac River. He returned to Mount Vernon that night.

William Preston wrote a letter to GW on this day regarding a survey of the land near Cole River. Preston also wrote of William Fleming’s petition to the House of Burgesses attempting to receive money for a disability sustained when fighting in the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War.