George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 20 March 1748]

Sunday 20th. Finding the River not much abated we in the Evening Swam our horses over & carried them to Charles Polks in Maryland for Pasturage till the next Morning.

Charles Polk had land under cultivation in the area as early as 1748 (NORRIS [1] description begins J. E. Norris, ed. History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley. 1890. Reprint. Berryville, Va., 1972. description ends , 68).

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    [Diary entry: 20 March 1748]
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    “[Diary entry: 20 March 1748],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-01-02-0001-0002-0009. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 1, 11 March 1748 – 13 November 1765, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 12.]