Wednesday

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Title Daily Entry
12 January 1791

    GW at Philadelphia. GW did not appear to write or receive any letters on this day.

05 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia. Alexander Hamilton wrote to GW detailing proposals for the building of a lighthouse at Cape Henry, near Jamestown, Va.

15 May 1754

GW was near the Great Crossing of the Youghiogheny River in Pennsylvania. In the Contrecoeur copy of his diary, GW wrote that on this day he learned by letter that Gov. William Shirley of Mass.

08 May 1754

GW was in Little Meadows, Maryland. A note in his May 9th letter to Va. Lt. Gov.

29 March 1797

GW presumably at Mount Vernon.

05 April 1797

GW at Mount Vernon.

01 February 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He again rode out “to see the Sick”--presumably among his slaves--and also went fox hunting. His hunt found nothing.

25 January 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He found a fox while hunting but did not kill it.  Doctor William Rumney again visited the Sick--most likely slaves--and returned for dinner.

12 April 1797

GW presumably Mount Vernon.

03 February 1790

GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he viewed the house, leased by Alexander Macomb, to which he had decided to move his presidential residence.

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