George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 1 May 1773]

May 1st. Went to the different Fishing Landings on both sides the River as high as broad Creek & found that few Fish had been catchd.

This was a bad year for the herring and shad fisheries. The catch during May was much smaller than that of 1772 or 1774 (General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 42). Broad Creek enters the Potomac in Prince George’s County, Md., four miles above Piscataway Creek.

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    Washington, George
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    1 May 1773

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    “[Diary entry: 1 May 1773],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0003-0010-0001. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 177.]