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27 February 1775

GW at Mount Vernon.  GW and his wife Martha had hosted Mrs. Craik for the night. Her husband, GW’s personal physician Dr. James Craik, came to pick her up after breakfast.

 

20 February 1775

GW in Alexandria, Va. for the selection of delegates to go to a convention in Richmond on 20 March.

13 February 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He recorded in his diary that he was at home all day. George Diggs, who lived at Warburton Manor across the river from Mount Vernon, visited him in the afternoon.

23 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia.  GW wrote family friend Elizabeth Willing Powel about the pamphlet criticizing the departments of the executive branch she had sent him on 21 April.

16 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia. GW submitted to Congress the letter and enclosure of 10 April from the U.S. circuit court judges for N.Y.

09 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia. GW sent the Senate a list of army appointments and promotions, which included Maj. Gen. Anthony Wayne as a replacement for the former army commander Arthur St. Clair.

02 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson returned the letters of James Seagrove, agent to the Creek Indians, to GW and also sent the names of three candidates for the office of Treasurer of the U.S.

26 March 1792

GW at Philadelphia. Gen. Arthur St. Clair wrote GW thanking him for his appointment as commander of the army in the Indian War.

19 March 1792

GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote to Bryan Fairfax regarding the settlement of the estate of Margaret Green Savage, which had plagued him with issues since the 1760’s.

12 March 1792

GW at Philadelphia. GW conversed with a House of Representatives committee concerning a House resolution of 10 March, which congratulated Louis XVI on accepting the French constitution.

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