Saturday
| Title | Daily Entry |
|---|---|
| 30 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. In his diary, GW noted that he spent the morning riding in his coach with Mrs. Washington and his grandchildren. In the afternoon, he walked around the Battery. |
| 23 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he went with Mrs. Washington to see the works of John Trumbull, the notable American painter who painted several portraits of GW. |
| 09 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, a prominent woman in British literary and philanthropic circles with whom he had begun a friendly correspondence in 1785. |
| 02 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. In his diary, GW noted that he read Alexander Hamilton’s report on the Department of Finance, and that he had tea with Chief Justice John Jay. |
| 04 April 1789 |
GW at Mount Vernon. GW wrote to James Mercer that he needed Mercer’s deceased father’s debt to him paid promptly on schedule. |
| 28 March 1789 |
GW at Mount Vernon. Scottish immigrant Robert Dick wrote assuring GW of the authenticity of the report he had sent on Canada’s politics and economics. |
| 21 March 1789 |
From Mount Vernon, GW wrote to lawyer Gustavus Scott, Va.politician Edward Stevens, and London merchant Samuel Vaughan. |