7771[Diary entry: 21 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
21. Exceeding pleasant with but little Wind from the Southwd. & Clear.
7772From George Washington to James Hill, 21 December 1772 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to James Hill, 21 Dec. 1772. On 5 Feb. 1773 Hill wrote to GW : “I recd your letters in the office the 30th of Jany one dated the 21st Decr.”
7773[Diary entry: 22 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
22. Returnd home early in the Morning, & went up to Alexa. to Court. Came back in the Aftern. The court met 21–22 Dec., but GW was not recorded present. On the previous day the justices had registered GW’s brand for his flour, “ g: washington ,” in accordance with the act passed during the last session of the assembly (Fairfax County Order Book for 1772–74, 158–65, Vi Microfilm; see main entry...
7774[Diary entry: 22 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
22. Wind Southerly and pleasant, being clear.
7775[Diary entry: 23 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
23. Went a Hunting but found nothing. In the Evening Colo. Fairfax came. On this day Baldwin Buckner, on behalf of himself and his brother John, contracted with GW to buy 300 barrels of “Superfine Flour & Cask” for £300 13s., to be paid the following April at the meeting of merchants in Williamsburg ( General Ledger B General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers,...
7776[Diary entry: 23 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
23. Wind pretty fresh from the Northwest but not Cold.
7777From George Washington to the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Regiment of 1754, 23 December 1772 (Washington Papers)
Pursuant to an order of Council, hereunto annexed, I am, through the channel of your Gazette, to inform the officers and soldiers of the first VIRGINIA REGIMENT (those of them I mean who embarked in the service of this colony before the battle of the Meadows in the year 1754) that all the claims which had been presented to me, properly attested, for land under Governor Dinwiddie ’s...
7778[Diary entry: 24 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
24. At home all day. After breakfast Mr. Buckner went away as Colo. Fairfax did after Dinr.
7779[Diary entry: 24 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
24. But little Wind, & that Easterly with Rain more or less all Day.
7780[Diary entry: 25 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
25. Went to Pohick Church and returnd to Dinner. Found Mr. Tilghman here.
7781[Diary entry: 25 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
25. Moderate, & tolerably clear in the forenoon. Afternoon Lowering with a good deal of Rain in the Night.
7782[Diary entry: 26 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
26th. At home all day with Mr. Tilghman.
7783[Diary entry: 26 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
26. More or less Rain all day with the Wind Easterly.
7784To George Washington from Gilbert Simpson, 26 December 1772 (Washington Papers)
I Received yours of the 18 of this instant by the hand of Mr Crawford and I am a Greable to your perposeal in makeing of Corn the next Summer prvided there Could be Corn got to Live on which I doubt of at that time of year but you and I Shall be more able to Judg of that in the month of Feburery if Mr Crawford Coms in as he Say he will and if any goos out there must goe more than two for I...
7785[Diary entry: 27 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
27. At home all day. Mr. Tilghman went away after Breakfast.
7786[Diary entry: 27 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
27. Raining this day also with variable Winds which sometimes was pretty fresh from the No. West.
7787[Diary entry: 28 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
28. Went out a hunting. Found a fox back of Captn. Darrells & killd it. Doctr. Rumney & a Lieutt. Winslow Dind here the former stayd all Night.
7788[Diary entry: 28 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
28. Calm and very pleasant Morning. Wind pretty fresh from the So. West afterwards.
7789To George Washington from Fielding Lewis, 29 December 1772–28 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
The post just leaving Town I have only time to inform you that I have rented your Houses & the Land between the road & River to Mr Fitzhugh for £22.10.0 ⅌ Ann: with liberty to get Fencing from the Land Mr Hunter want the other field next to him I shall go over in order to agree with him tho’ I think the better way is not to rent the other part nor will I conclude the bargain ’till next post...
7790[Diary entry: 29 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
29. Doctr. Rumney stayed all day & Night. To Dinner Came Mr. Wren, Mr. Carr, & Mr. Addison the former of whom went away. Mr. Wren is probably James Wren (d. 1808) of Fairfax County, who supplied the building plans for Pohick Church ( SLAUGHTER [1] Philip Slaughter. The History of Truro Parish in Virginia . Edited by Edward L. Goodwin. Philadelphia, 1908. , 70). Mr. Carr is probably either...
7791[Diary entry: 29 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
29. Clear, Calm, & pleasant all day with but little Wind.
7792[Diary entry: 30 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
30. Went a Hunting but found nothing. Messrs. Addison & Carr dining here—as did Mr. Manley.
7793[Diary entry: 30 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
30. Calm and pleasant in the Morning. A good deal of Wind from the Westward afterwards.
7794[Diary entry: 31 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
31. Mr. Magowan came here Yesterday in the Afternoon & this day with Messrs. Carr & Addison went up after Dinner to Alexa.
7795[Diary entry: 31 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
31. Calm, Clear, & pleasant all day.
7796From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 31 December 1772 (Washington Papers)
On the 20th of November from Williamsburg I advisd you of two Bills I had just drawn on you, desiring they might be placed to the Account of Mr Custis; one of them for One hundred and fifty pounds; & the other of Two hundred and fifty; the last of which was sold and will be presented to you for payment —the other I have taken in, having now of this date, drawn another in its place of One...
7797[undated diary entry] (Washington Papers)
The following is the opinion of the late Lord Chanceller Cambden, and Chanceller York, on Titles derivd by the Kings Subjects from the Indians or Natives. “In respect to such places as have been, or shall be acquired by Treaty or Grant from any of the Indian Princes, or Governments, your Majestys Letters Patents are not necessary, the Property of the Soil, vesting in the Grantee by the Indian...
7798[undated diary entry] (Washington Papers)
Sales of the Pews in Alexandria Church—to whom—&ca. Nos. Purchasers Price 4 Mr. Townsd. Dade £28. 5 Colo. G. Washington 36.10 13 Mr. Robt. Adam 30. 14 Mr. Robt. Alexander 30.10 15 Mr. Dalton 20. 18
7799Memorandum List of Quitrents, 1773 (Washington Papers)
A List of Lands belonging to Geo: Washington in the Northern Neck—on wch Quit-rents became due—Michaelmas 1773. In Fairfax County—Mt Vernon 2126 Bought of Darrell 500 Clifton 1806 Brent 238 Wm Ashford 135 Geo: Ashford 135 Simn Pearson 178 Wm Whiting 200 Jno. Posey 200
7800[January 1773] (Washington Papers)
Jany. 1st. Dined at Belvoir and returnd in the Afternoon. Found Mr. Grafton Dulany, Mr. Ben. Gallaway, Mr. Sam Hanson & Mr. Magowan and Doctr. Rumney here. Grafton Dulany, son of Mary Grafton and Walter Dulany, the commissary general for Maryland, was a student at Jonathan Boucher’s school in Annapolis. He became a Loyalist in the Revolution and served with the Maryland Loyalist Battalion in...