[Diary entry: 14 September 1772]

14. Set out for Fredericksburg about 7 Oclock; Dined & Fed my Horses at Peytons on Acquia & reachd Fredericksburg abt. Dusk. Lodgd at my Mothers.

GW’s purpose in going to Fredericksburg at this time was to meet with other veteran officers of the French and Indian War “to consider of a proper method to obtain the Lands granted” by the king’s Proclamation of 1763 (resolutions of veteran officers, 15 Sept. 1772, MoSW).

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Title: [Diary entry: 14 September 1772]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 14 September 1772

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 14 September 1772],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0002-0020-0014. [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. 130.]