1Farm Reports, 2–8 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
by ploughing, Harrowing, & Seeding of Oats, & FlaxBy ploughing for Corn, And harrowing
2Enclosure: Washington’s Plans for His River, Union, and Muddy Hole Farms, 10 December 1799 (Washington Papers)
...to be sown with Oats. another part may be sown with Pease, broadcast. Part is in meadow, and will remain so. and the most broken, washed, & indifferent part, is to remain uncultivated; but to be harrowed & smoothed in the Spring, and the worst parts thereof (if practicable) to be covered with litter, straw, weeds or any kind of vegitable Rubbish to prevent them from running into gullies.
3To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 20 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
among the Members, harrow my very Soul—
4From Thomas Jefferson to Everard Meade, 8 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Everard Meade (1748–1802) was educated at Harrow in England, and lived there for approximately five years. In 1767 he built the Hermitage in Amelia County, Virginia, where he resided after the American Revolution. He was commissioned on 8 Mch. 1776 as a captain in...
5William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 2 April 1798 (Adams Papers)
Will harrow up my soul, freeze my young blood,”
6From George Washington to Lawrence Lewis, 28 September 1799 (Washington Papers)
The reasons are—that although Mr Anderson is (in my opinion) an honest, sober, & industrious man; understands the management of the Plough, the Harrow, &ca; and how to make Meadows; yet, he is not a man of arrangement, he wants system & foresight in conducting the business to advantage; is no œconomist in providing things, and takes but little care...
7From George Washington to James Anderson, 13 December 1799 (Washington Papers)
...more evidently or more essentially, than in not suffering the Provender to be wasted, but on the contrary, that every atom of it be used to the best advantage; and likewise in not suffering the Ploughs, Harrows and other implements of husbandry thereon, and the Gears belonging to them, to be unnecessarily exposed; trodden underfoot—Carts running over them; and abused in other...
8George Washington’s Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799 (Washington Papers)
...his friend Dr. James Craik took the boys into his house. At the end of the year, with Washington’s approval, Craik removed them from the Academy and placed them in the school of Gilbert Harrow in Alexandria in order to have them concentrate on the study of mathematics. On Tobias Lear’s advice, Washington in the fall of 1790 had his nephews brought to Philadelphia and enrolled in the college...