Thursday
Title | Daily Entry |
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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. |