Wednesday
Title | Daily Entry |
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03 May 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. GW’s friend Bryan Fairfax left Mount Vernon, but Maj. Horatio Gates stayed all day. Col. Richard Henry Lee and his brother, Thomas, and Col. Charles Carter, Jr. visited. |
26 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon and Alexandria, Va. He traveled to Alexandria to meet with the Fairfax County Independent Company. |
19 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. Sisters Mrs. Thomas Blackburn and Mrs. William Brown left after dinner. Dr. William Rumney arrived in the afternoon.
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12 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He wrote in his diary that Capt. Saunders left after dinner and he hosted John Lloyd for dinner and the night. His visitor Andrew Stewart left after dinner. |
18 January 1775 |
GW at Alexandria, Va., where his diary indicates that he spent “all day” in committee. |
11 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon all day. He wrote in his diary that he was alone.
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04 January 1775 |
Charles Lee left Mount Vernon. |
05 April 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon with the same men as the day before: lawyer James Tilghman, Jr., James Buchanan, Alexandria, Va. merchants William Herbert and John Fitzgerald, as well as Daniel Carroll, Jr. |
29 March 1775 |
GW arrived in Fredericksburg, Va., at eleven o’clock. He had dinner at Col. Fielding Lewis’s house. He spent the night at George Weedon’s tavern. |
22 March 1775 |
GW in Richmond for the Second Va. Convention. He dined at Galt’s Tavern, owned by Gabriel Galt, and lodged at a house provided by the Galts. The weather was cold throughout the day. |