1Remarks & Occurrs. in October [1770] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 5th. Began a journey to the Ohio in Company with Doctr. Craik his Servant, & two of mine with a lead Horse with Baggage. Dind at Towlston and lodgd at Leesburg distant from Mount Vernon abt. 45 Miles. Here my Portmanteau horse faild in his stomach. For additional annotation of GW’s diary entries for October, see the previous section. Towlston Grange was Bryan Fairfax’s home in Fairfax...
5 October 1770. MS not found. Prepared by a committee appointed and reporting 5 October, composed of John Murray, Joseph Gerrish, JA , Jedediah Prebble, and Samuel Adams. Murray reported the same day. In his reply to the House Message of 4 October (see preceding calendar entry), Hutchinson claimed he was “not at Liberty” to communicate the order in council of 6 July to which he had referred...
3[Diary entry: 5 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
5. Set out in Company with Doctr. Craik for the Settlement on Redstone &ca. dind at Mr. Bryan Fairfax’s & lodged at Leesburg. Several factors induced GW to make the arduous journey through western Pennsylvania and the Ohio country in the fall of 1770. Among the most pressing was the question of locating bounty lands on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia...
4[Diary entry: 5 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
5. Clear, warm & remarkably pleasant with very little or no Wind.
5[Diary entry: 5 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 5th. Began a journey to the Ohio in Company with Doctr. Craik his Servant, & two of mine with a lead Horse with Baggage. Dind at Towlston and lodgd at Leesburg distant from Mount Vernon abt. 45 Miles. Here my Portmanteau horse faild in his stomach. For additional annotation of GW’s diary entries for October, see the previous section. Towlston Grange was Bryan Fairfax’s home in Fairfax...
6From George Washington to Botetourt, 5 October 1770 (Washington Papers)
Being fully convincd of your Lordships Inclination to render every just and reasonable Service to the People you Govern, & to any Society or body of them that shall ask it; and being in a more particular manner encouragd by a Letter which I have just receivd from Mr Blair (Clerk of the Council) to believe, that your Excellency is desirous of knowing how far the Grant of Land sollicited by Mr...