Tuesday
| Title | Daily Entry |
|---|---|
| 17 March 1789 |
From Mount Vernon, GW wrote lawyer John Marshall, imploring him to settle a long-standing dispute with the estate of William Armsted concerning a piece of property on the Ohio River. |
| 10 March 1789 |
GW presumably at Mount Vernon. |
| 26 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. In his diary, he noted that he spent the morning on his horse and received visitors in the afternoon. GW also read a letter given to him from Secretary of War Henry Knox. |
| 19 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. He wrote in his diary that there were not many visitors at his house, but the few that did visit were respectable. |
| 12 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he coordinated communications between Secretary of War Henry Knox and Congress over the Creek Indian Treaty. |
| 05 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. He noted in his diary that a few members of Congress, upon their arrival to town, came to visit him. |
| 07 April 1789 |
At Mount Vernon, GW received a letter from William Shotwell, surviving partner of Embree and Shotwell, saying that GW’s order of seeds had been sent to Baltimore merchant and shipowner Richard Curs |
| 31 March 1789 |
From Mount Vernon, GW began preparing to leave home for an unknown period of time. |
| 24 March 1789 |
From Mount Vernon, GW wrote his nephew Robert Lewis to give him instructions on preparing for his new job as GW’s secretary. |
| 22 February 1732 |
GW was born at his family's home along Pope's Creek, near where that stream enters the Potomac River, in Westmoreland County, Va. |