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Title	Daily Entry
03 January 1754	GW was presumably at surveyor, trader, and guide Christopher Gist’s home at Monongahela, Pennsylvania.
22 August 1754	GW was in Alexandria, Va. with his regiment. Based on his recent letters to Va. Lt. Gov.
15 August 1754	GW was in Alexandria, Va., likely preparing his troops for the impending march to Wills Creek, Pennsylvania/Maryland. He also wrote a letter to James Mackay of the independent company from S.C.
08 August 1754	GW was in Alexandria, Virginia. On this day, GW wrote a letter to Col. James Innes, commander of an independent N.C. regiment; however, this letter has not been found and its contents are unknown.
01 August 1754	GW was traveling to or was in Alexandria, Va. with his regiment. Va. Lt. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie wrote GW on this day of the Va.
27 July 1775	GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His General Orders defined how to deal with deserters and appointed John Trumbull, Jr. as aide-de-camp to GW.
20 July 1775	GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
13 July 1775	GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In his General Orders for the day, GW instructed Col. Samuel Gerrish to purchase all livestock in and around Chelsea, Massachusetts.
06 July 1775	GW at the American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His General Orders include court martials for four men on the basis of desertion and theft, an order for Capt. Noadiah Leonard of Col.
29 June 1775	GW presumably traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Del. Delegates wrote GW a letter from Philadelphia recommending John Parke for military service.

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