101[Diary entry: 9 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
9th. Wind very fresh all day from the No. West but not Cold—though clear.
102[Diary entry: 8 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
8th. The above Gentlemen went away after Breakfast. Docter Craik came to Dinner & wt. away afterwards.
103[Diary entry: 8 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
8. Clear and pleasant with but little Wind. Warm also.
104From George Washington to Daniel Jenifer Adams, 8 March 1775 (Washington Papers)
I have come to the Resolution of taking upon myself the payment of the Debts which your deceased Father has Taxed his Lands with provided you suffer a Condemnation of the Attached Effects—join your Sisters in conveying the Lands to me, and surrender possession of the Negro &ca. I shall have no objection’s to your Sisters continuing on the Plantation this year, if peaceable and quiet Possession...
105From George Washington to Daniel Jenifer, 8 March 1775 (Washington Papers)
As you have been kind enough to mention the Conversation we had respecting Mr D. J. Adamss Land to the Creditors of his Father & procurd answers from some of them the Inclosed Letters will inform you of my determination in consequence thereof. I will pay Mr Stormat at the time mentioned in my Letters to the other Gentn with Interest but want to know whether he sets up a claim to more than the...
106From George Washington to Knox & Baillie, 8 March 1775 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your favour of the 28th Ulto —If Mr Danl Jenifer Adams (to whom I have now wrote) will suffer a Condemnation of the Land, Slave & Horse which I attached—will surrender possession of the two last; and join his Sisters in conveying the former to me, I will become answerable to you (upon Mr Stromats giving me the same Indulgence in time of payment that you do) for your claim against...
107[Diary entry: 7 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
7. I set my People off for the Ohio under the care of Willm. Stevens. Captn. Wood went away and Doctr. Craik went up with Lund Washington to see Jas. Cleveland. Colo. Harrison returnd. Mr. Whiting, & Mr. Catesby Woodford came to Dinner also & Stayed all Night. GW was making his second attempt in two years to seat his frontier lands on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, for which he had gathered,...
108[Diary entry: 7 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
7. Calm and Lowering in the forenoon with but little wind. At Night Rain.
109[Diary entry: 6 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
6. Colo. Harrison & Colo. Lee went away, as did Mrs. Barnes & Miss Ramsay after Breakfast.
110[Diary entry: 6 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
6. Clear, Warm, & Calm in the forenoon, but the Wind a little fresh from the Southward afterwards.
111From George Washington to William Aylett, 6 March 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 26th Ulto came to my hands by the last Post—and by its return you will receive this Letter. As Mr John Gizage Frazer is unable to pay what he owes me, and my Signing his Letter of License necessary to his enlargement I do (although I cannot charge my Memory with ever having seen it) upon the information and strength of your Letter, hereby signify my consent to it, and do...
112From George Washington to William Stevens, 6 March 1775 (Washington Papers)
As Mr James Cleveland, whom I have employed to take charge of my business upon the Ohio, is rendered unable at this time by sickness, to proceed out with my People, I must commit the care & management of them, & the business to you, till he can follow, or till you can hear further from me. Proceed therefore, without any unnecessary loss of time to Mr Gilbert Simpson’s on Youghiogany, where I...
113From George Washington to John Washington, 6 March 1775 (Washington Papers)
Mr Fitzhugh deliverd me your favr of the 13th Ulto on Tuesday last—but as I receivd it on the Road, I could not answer it by him & wish it was in my power to do it satisfactorily now —So far am I from having £200 to lend, that, involvd as I am with one expence and another, particularly in a very heavy charge of seating my Lands over the Alligany Mountains in order to comply with the conditions...
114[Diary entry: 5 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
5. At home all day. Colo. Richd. Lee came to Dinner and Doctr. Craik in the Evening.
115[Diary entry: 5 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
5. A very foggy Morning but Calm, warm, & pleasant afterwards.
116[Diary entry: 4 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
4. Went a Hunting but found nothing. Colo. Harrison and Captn. Wood came here to Dinner.
117[Diary entry: 4 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
4. Warm, Calm, and pleasant. In the Afternoon a little Wind from the Southward.
118[Diary entry: 3 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
3. They went away after Breakfast. I contd. at home all day.
119[Diary entry: 3 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
3. Clear & very pleasant all day. In the forenoon the Wind was a little fresh from the Southward but quite calm afterwards.
120[Diary entry: 2 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
2. Morda. Red went away after Breakfast. Doctr. Jenifer & wife & Mrs. McCarty came to Dinner & stayd all Night. Dr. Walter Hanson Jenifer’s wife Ann was commonly called Nancy.
121[Diary entry: 2 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
2. Clear, with little or no Wind in the forenoon but Southerly afterwards.
122[Diary entry: 1 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
Mar. 1st. Cloudy all the forenoon with a little Rain. Clear afterwards. Wind very fresh all day from the No. West. Mrs. Barnes, & Miss Betcy Ramsay came in the Eveng. as did Mr. Morda. Red. Betcy Ramsay was Mrs. Sarah Barnes’s granddaughter.
123[Diary entry: 1 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
March 1st. Cloudy all the forenoon with a little Rain—clear afterwards. Wind very fresh all day from the No. West & towards Night cold.
124[February 1775] (Washington Papers)
Feby. 1st. Went into the Neck to see the Sick. Also went a fox huntg. Found nothing. 2. At home all day. In the Afternn. Mr. Calvert, Mr. Bordley, & Mr. Jacques from Maryland and Mr. Wagener, Mr. Mills, Doctr. Rumney, & Mr. Rutherford came here. John Beale Bordley (1727–1804), of Baltimore and Wye Island, Md., pursued an avid interest in all areas of agriculture, including crop rotation, farm...
125Acct. of the Weather in Feby. [1775] (Washington Papers)
Feby. 1. Pleasant with but little Wind, & that Near No. West. 2. A White frost but clear & very pleast. with but little wind & that Southerly. 3. Calm, warm, & pleasant all day—being also clear. 4. Pleasant & clear in the Morning, but lowering afterwards with some rain in the Evening & Night. 5. Quite calm and Pleasant being warm. 6. Very little wind, but lowg. & like for falling weather. 7....
126Cash Accounts, February 1775 (Washington Papers)
Cash Feby 3— To John Fitzgerald [£] 57.18.4 18— To Capt. [Richard] Conway for 100 Bls Corn 100. 0.0 23— To the P. Wm Independent Coy for Colours, & Drums £13.0.9 Pensy. Curry is 10. 8.7 28— To Colo. Geo Mason to pay out of it £12.10 Str. to Mr Mezzay [Philip Mazzei] of Robt Cartr Nicholas 18. 0.0 Contra Feby 10— By William Milnor for Sundries £17.3.6 P. Curry is 13.14.9 1/4 By Ben Ashby ⅌ his...
127[Diary entry: 28 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
28. Went up with Mrs. Washington to Alexandria—returnd to Dinner.
128[Diary entry: 28 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
28. Lowering Morning but clear, warm, & exceeding pleasant afterwards—till the Evening when it Clouded & look like Rain. Wind blowing fresh from the Southwd.
129[Diary entry: 27 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
27. Mrs. Craik went away after Breakfast—the Doctr. coming for her.
130[Diary entry: 27 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
27. Wind fresh from the Southward. Raw & cool and lowering towards Eveng.
131[Diary entry: 26 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
26. Mrs. Washington & self went to Pohick Church. Dind at Captn. McCartys. Mrs. Craik came home with us.
132[Diary entry: 26 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
26. Wind pretty fresh from the Northwest and a little cold towards Noon.
133[Diary entry: 25 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
25. Mr. Danl. Jenifer came to Dinnr. & went away afterwards.
134[Diary entry: 25 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
25. Clear and a little Cool—Wind fresh all day from the West & So. Wt.
135Agreement with William Skilling, 25 February 1775 (Washington Papers)
Articles of Agreement made and concluded upon this 25th day of February One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy five, between William Skilling of the County of Fairfax & Colony of Virginia Labourer, of the one part, and George Washington of the County & Colony aforesaid Gentn, of the other part, Witnesseth, that the said William Skilling for the Consideration hereafter mentioned, doth Covenant...
136From George Washington to John Connolly, 25 February 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your servant, on his return from Williamsburg, affords me occasion to answer your polite letter. I confess the state of affairs is sufficiently alarming; which our critical situation, with regard to the Indians does not diminish: but as you have wrote to Lord Dunmore, relative to the prisoners under your charge, there can be no doubt of his Lordship’s having now transmitted you the necessary...
137[Diary entry: 24 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
24. Doctr. Craik went away early in the Morning & Mr. Rutherfd. after Dinner.
138[Diary entry: 24 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
24. Raining more or less till the Afternoon, then clear, wind fresh all day from the Southward.
139From George Washington to William Crawford, 24 February 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Crawford, 24 Feb. 1775. On 6 Mar. Crawford acknowledges receipt of GW’s letter “dated Feby 24th.”
140From George Washington to Robert Hanson Harrison, 24 February 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Robert Hanson Harrison, 24 Feb. 1775. Harrison wrote GW on 26 Feb. : “Your favor of the 24 I received.”
141[Diary entry: 23 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
23. Doctr. Craik staid all day. Mr. Rutherford came to Dinner & also stayd all Night. A Mr. Corse dind & went away afterwds. Mr. Corse may have been John Corse, a captain in the Delaware Regiment during the Revolution (see Fitzpatrick, Diaries John C. Fitzpatrick, ed. The Diaries of George Washington, 1748–1799 . 4 vols. Boston and New York, 1925. , 2:186n).
142[Diary entry: 23 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
23. Clear and warm with the wind pretty fresh from the Southward. At Night Rain.
143[Diary entry: 22 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
22. The whole went away after Breakfast. Went with Mrs. Washington to Mr. Digges & Dind. Mr. Custis and wife went to Maryland. Doctr. Craik came in the Aftern.
144[Diary entry: 22 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
22. Quite warm with little or no Wind and Clear.
145[Diary entry: 21 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
21. At home all day. Doctr. Rumney & Captn. Marshall Dined here. Mr. Grayson & Mr. Henderson came in the Afternoon & lodgd. On 16 Feb., James Scott, Jr. (1742–1779), of Fauquier County, wrote to GW that he and Capt. Thomas Marshall were “the persons chosen by our [Fauquier County] Independent company, to wait on you for the purpose of offering you the command,” but Scott was not able to join...
146[Diary entry: 21 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
21. Again very warm and pleast. with but little wind.
147[Diary entry: 20 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
20. Went up to Alexandria to the Choosing of Delegates to go to Richmond. Doctr. Rumney. Pursuant to a resolution by the First Virginia Convention (1–6 Aug. 1774) authorizing the moderator, Peyton Randolph, to call another convention when he thought necessary, Randolph issued a call on 19 Jan. 1775 for each county to choose two delegates to a convention to be convened in Richmond on 20 Mar. (...
148[Diary entry: 20 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
20. Clear & very warm with but little wind & that Southerly.
149[Diary entry: 19 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
19. At home all day alone.
150[Diary entry: 19 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
19. Cloudy all day, but not Cold with but little wind, and that variable. At Night Rain.