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22 March 1792

GW at Philadelphia. John Lamb asked GW’s personal secretary, Tobias Lear, to deliver his letter to Martha Washington, which contained a receipt for two barrels of Newtown Pippin apples.

15 March 1792

GW at Philadelphia. Caleb Brewster wrote GW from Fairfield, Conn. detailing his military service and injuries in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in him becoming an invalid.

08 March 1792

GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote to Thomas Jefferson about encouraging the Commissioners for the District of Columbia to investigate the potential for canal navigation in the planned federal city.

01 March 1792

GW at Philadelphia. A Ga.

23 February 1792

GW at Philadelphia. Alexander Hamilton wrote GW to submit a contract for keeping up the N.H. New Castle Island lighthouse.

16 February 1792

GW at Philadelphia.

09 February 1792

GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote Thomas Jefferson and asked that he seek out Georgetown, Md.

14 April 1791

In Va., GW traveled from Richmond and arrived in Petersburg. In his diary, GW worried that Petersburg’s trade would decline because of a future canal.

07 April 1791

GW traveled from Mount Vernon to Dumfries, Va. GW wrote in his diary that all of his horses, harnessed to his carriage, jumped overboard during the ferry ride at Colchester.

31 March 1791

GW at Mount Vernon. GW, in his diary, wrote that he remained at Mount Vernon until 7 April and visited his plantations each day.

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