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Title	Daily Entry
13 April 1775	GW at Mount Vernon. GW hosted his stepson John Parke Custis and his wife, Mrs. Newman, and Mrs. Anne Clifton Slaughter.
19 January 1775	GW at Mount Vernon for dinner, which he ate alone. He wrote in his diary that there was a mix of rain and snow through the day.
12 January 1775	GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that he went fox hunting and found some but did not kill anything.
26 January 1775	GW in Alexandria, Va. He traveled from Mount Vernon to attend a meeting of the trustees for a project to improve navigation on the Potomac River. No one else, however, arrived for the meeting.
05 January 1775	GW spent the day at Mount Vernon.
25 July 1754	GW was presumably in Williamsburg, where he had arrived on 17 July, though he may have left by this time to navigate the Potomac River. GW would arrive in Alexandria, Va.
18 July 1754	GW was in Williamsburg to speak with Va. Lt. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie about the British defeat at Fort Necessity on 3 July. The governor met with the Va.
06 April 1775	GW at Mount Vernon. All of his visitors from the previous day left, except for Rector Walter Magowan. Richard Adams came in the evening and stayed the night.
30 March 1775	GW spent the entire day in Fredericksburg, Va., and once again had dinner at Col. Fielding Lewis’s home. He noted in his diary that it was a “tolerable pleasant day.”
23 March 1775	GW dined at Patrick Coutts’s home. Coutts was a Richmond merchant living on Shockoe Hill. GW stayed another night at tavern owner Gabriel Galts’ home. At the Second Va.

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