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Title Daily Entry
12 March 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He attended Pohick Church and afterward returned home. He met with John Hoskins Stone, who paid 300 pounds for 3,000 bushels of GW’s corn.

05 March 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote that he had been home all day. Col. Richard Lee and his personal physician Dr. James Craik both visited for the night.

 

26 February 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that he and his wife Martha went to Pohick Church and then dined at Capt. Daniel McCarty’s. They also hosted Mrs.

19 February 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. According to his diary, he spent the day alone at home.

 

12 February 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that it snowed in the forenoon. He also said that Va. landowner Robert Ashby and his brother went away while he stayed at home.

 

22 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia. He dined with twenty-two of the visiting Five Nations chiefs, their interpreter, and Rev. Samuel Kirkland.

15 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia. Governor of Surinam Juriaen François de Friderici wrote GW introducing physician and writer David Nassy, an immigrant to the U.S. from Surinam.

08 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia.

01 April 1792

GW at Philadelphia. GW sent Thomas Jefferson a letter from Gouverneur Morris of 27 Dec. 1791. GW also approved Jefferson’s draft of a letter to S.C. Gov.

25 March 1792

GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote Thomas Jefferson about Jefferson’s proposed treaty with Spain concerning the extradition of criminals fleeing justice.

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