7951[Diary entry: 14 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
14. Ground lightly cover’d with Snow. Day foggy—Misty, & thawing with little or no Wind.
7952[Diary entry: 15 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
15. Foggy & warm Morning, with little or no Wind. Afterwards Windy from the No. West & turning Cold. Ice almost gone out of the River.
7953[Diary entry: 16 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
16th. Very Cold all day & not very Windy—but Northerly.
7954[Diary entry: 17 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
17. Tolerably pleasant. But little Wind & clear.
7955[Diary entry: 18 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
18. Wind fresh from the No. West and very Cold all day. Clear.
7956[Diary entry: 19 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
19. Cold & hard frozen Morning but clear and not much wind from the Southward. Thawd but little.
7957[Diary entry: 20 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
20. Little or no Wind, and more moderate than yesterday—but sometimes threating falling Weather being lowerg. all day.
7958[Diary entry: 21 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
21. Wind Southerly in the Morning, but about Noon it Shifted to the Northwest, blew hard & turnd exceeding Cold.
7959[Diary entry: 22 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
22. Very cold Morning. River quite Shut up in the Morning early; but opend into holes afterwards, & before Night broke much away. Not much Wind but that Northerly. Very cold & Cloudy.
7960[Diary entry: 23 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
23. Was also very cold. Wind still Northerly.
7961[Diary entry: 24 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
24. Raw cold & Cloudy all day, Wind still at No. West & fresh.
7962[Diary entry: 25 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
25. Tolerably pleasant—being clear with little or nor Wind.
7963[Diary entry: 26 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
26. Clear and pleasant but little Wind and that Southerly.
7964[Diary entry: 27 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
27. Wind blowing fresh and cold all day from the No. West & freezing very hard. With Clouds.
7965[Diary entry: 28 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
28. Snowing till the Afternoon but not fast—ground coverd abt. 2 Inches. Very cold River quite shut up. Wind Northerly.
7966[Diary entry: 29 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
29. Wind in the same place & Cold. In the Afternoon abt. an Inch more Snow.
7967[Diary entry: 30 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
30. A kind of a Sleet after the Morning continued all day with the Wind abt. No. Et.
7968[Diary entry: 31 January 1774] (Washington Papers)
31. Clear and not so cold as yesterday. A great deal of Rain fell in the Night.
7969[February 1774] (Washington Papers)
Feby. 1st. At home all day. Mr. Fairfax went away after Breakfast. In & abt. Dinner time Nancy Carlyle came. 2. I still continued home—alone except Mr. Crawford. 3. Set out after an early Dinner (with Lund Washington) for Mr. Calverts, to Mr. Custis’s Wedding who was this Eveng. married to Miss Nelly Calvert. On 15 Dec. 1773 GW had written to Rev. Myles Cooper , president of King’s College,...
7970[Diary entry: 1 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
Feby. 1st. At home all day. Mr. Fairfax went away after Breakfast. In & abt. Dinner time Nancy Carlyle came.
7971[Diary entry: 2 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
2. I still continued home—alone except Mr. Crawford.
7972[Diary entry: 3 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
3. Set out after an early Dinner (with Lund Washington) for Mr. Calverts, to Mr. Custis’s Wedding who was this Eveng. married to Miss Nelly Calvert. On 15 Dec. 1773 GW had written to Rev. Myles Cooper , president of King’s College, N.Y., that his hopes of Jacky’s continuing his education were “at an end; & at length, I have yielded, contrary to my judgment, & much against my wishes, to his...
7973[Diary entry: 4 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
4. At Mr. Calverts all day. With much other company.
7974[Diary entry: 5 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
5. Returnd home to a late Dinner. Found Mr. Gist here who came the day I left home. Also found Doctr. Rumney & Val. Crawford here.
7975[Diary entry: 6 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
6. At home all day. Mr. Gist went away after Breakfast.
7976[Diary entry: 7 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
7. Went with Mrs. Washington and Nancy Carlyle by the New Church to Captn. McCartys. Dind there & came home in the Afternoon. Doctr. Rumney went away after Breakfast.
7977[Diary entry: 8 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
8. Rid into the Neck to the Plantation’s there. And to the fishing Landing—where my Carpenters were at Work. Came home by Muddy hole. Mrs. Slaughter dind here & went away afterwards.
7978[Diary entry: 9 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
9th. At home all day. In the Afternoon Mr. Matthew Campbell & Captn. Crawford came.
7979[Diary entry: 10 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
10th. At home all day. After Breakfast Mr. Campbell went away and in the Afternoon Mr. Hugh Stephenson came. Hugh Stephenson, a son of GW’s old friend Richard Stephenson of Frederick County and a half brother to Valentine and William Crawford, lived in the Shenandoah Valley until the Revolution. In response to a request by the Continental Congress in June 1775, Virginia raised two companies of...
7980[Diary entry: 11 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
11. At home all day. Mr. Thos. Rutherford came here to dinner & Mr. Resin Bell in the afternn. Rutherford is probably Robert Rutherford’s brother Thomas, of Berkeley (later Jefferson) County (see GREENE [3] Katherine Glass Greene. Winchester, Virginia, and Its Beginnings, 1743–1814 . Strasburg, Va., 1926. , 375–82). Rezin Beall (1723–1809), whose name is variously spelled, was a descendant of...
7981[Diary entry: 12 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
12. After dinner the two Crawfords & Mr. Stephenson set out for Wmsburg. & Mr. Rutherford and Mr. Beall for their respective homes. Valentine Crawford and Hugh Stephenson were carrying a letter from GW to Governor Dunmore , dated 11 Feb., attesting to their satisfactory military service in the early 1760s, by which they hoped to qualify for western bounty land under the royal Proclamation of...
7982[Diary entry: 13 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
13. At home all day alone.
7983[Diary entry: 14 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
14. Again at home all day. To Dinner came Master Geo. Carlyle—who went away afterwards with his Sister Nancy. In the Afternoon Captn. Bullet & his Brother Cuthbert came & stayed all Night. Capt. Thomas Bullitt, who had been surveying land in the Ohio Valley for Governor Dunmore and others, was now reporting to GW on his trip and on land he had chosen for GW. Thomas’s brother Cuthbert Bullitt...
7984[Diary entry: 15 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
15. These Gentlemen went away. I went to a Vestry at the New Church & returnd in the Aftern. The main business for the Truro vestry at this meeting was recorded in the vestry book: “George Mason Esqr. Executor of Daniel French dec[ease]d, Undertaker [contractor for the construction] of the Church near Pohick, having finished the said Church tender the same to this Vestry . . . and the said...
7985[Diary entry: 16 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
16. At home all day alone—being engaged in writing.
7986[Diary entry: 17 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
17. Went a Hunting. Found a dog fox in this Neck and killed him after treeing 3 times and running about 2 hours.
7987[Diary entry: 18 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
18. At home all day alone Writing. In the Aftn. Mr. Jas. Lawson came. This is probably James Lawson of Glasgow, who had come to Virginia to settle the accounts of the financially troubled Occoquan ironworks, which his brother-in-law John Semple had taken over from John Ballendine in the early 1760s ( SKAGGS David C. Skaggs and Richard K. MacMaster, eds. “Post-Revolutionary Letters of Alexander...
7988[Diary entry: 19 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
19. Went a Hunting in the Neck see three Foxs but killd none. Mr. Lawson went away after Breakfast.
7989[Diary entry: 20 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
20. At home all day. Mr. Willm. Brent & Mr. Notley Rozer came to Dinner & stayd all Night. At least two William Brents lived along the Potomac at this time. One was William Brent of Charles County, Md.; the other was William Brent (1733–1782), of Richland, near Aquia Creek in Stafford County, Va., who married Eleanor Carroll (d. 1804), daughter of Daniel Carroll of Upper Marlboro, Md. ( BRENT...
7990[Diary entry: 21 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
21. A Wm. Stevens came here in the Evening, & stayd all Night. I continued at home all day. GW hired William Stevens to accompany the expedition of workers GW was sending west to seat his Kanawha lands ( GW to William Stevens, 6 Mar. 1775 , DLC:GW ; General Ledger B General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 103).
7991[Diary entry: 22 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
22. At home all day. Stevens went away Early. Miss Digges Miss Betcy Digges, & Mrs. Slaughter Dind here & went away afterwards.
7992[Diary entry: 23 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
23. At home all day. Mr. Robt. Adam came to dinner and Mr. B. Fairfax and Captn. Crawford came after Dinner—the whole staying all Night.
7993[Diary entry: 24 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
24. Went a huntg. in the Morning and from thence to the Vestry. Mr. Adams going away—upon my return found Doctr. Craik, Val. Crawford & Mr. Thos. Gist. Meeting again “at the new Church near Pohick,” the Truro vestry assigned pews, first to those (including GW) who bought pews at auction in the fall of 1772. Other pews were then assigned: the “Upper Pew . . . adjoining the South Wall . . . to...
7994[Diary entry: 25 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
25. At home all day. Mr. Fairfax & Doctr. Craik went away after Breakfast. Hancock Lee came to Dinr. & went away after it. Hancock Lee (1740–1819), of Greenview, Fauquier County, did much exploring and surveying in the Ohio Valley and later settled in Kentucky ( LEE [1] Cazenove Gardner Lee, Jr. Lee Chronicle: Studies of the Early Generations of the Lees of Virginia . Edited by Dorothy Mills...
7995[Diary entry: 26 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
26. At home all day. Captn. Crawford and Mr. Gist went away after Breakfast.
7996[Diary entry: 27 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
27. At home all day alone.
7997[Diary entry: 28 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
28. Mr. Tayler, Mr. Wagener & one Mordaica Red came to Breakfast & went away afterwards. mr. tayler : possibly Hancock Taylor, who accompanied his first cousin, Hancock Lee, on a surveying trip into Kentucky in the spring of 1774. During that trip Taylor was killed by Indians ( Va. Gaz. , P&D, 15 Sept. 1774). Mordecai Redd, of Frederick County, later bought a piece of land in Frederick County...
7998Acct. of the Weather in Feby. [1774] (Washington Papers)
Feby. 1st. Tolerably warm, and thawing all day. Wind Southerly. 2. Still warm and thawing with little or no Wind. Ice upon the River beginning to Break & move about. 3. Raining very close and constant all the Morning with the Wind fresh from the So. West. Ice a good deal dispersd. In the Evening clear & Wind at No. West. 4. Clear, but rather cold, wind Westerly & pretty fresh. Ground froze in...
7999[Diary entry: 1 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
Feby. 1st. Tolerably warm, and thawing all day. Wind Southerly.
8000[Diary entry: 2 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
2. Still warm and thawing with little or no Wind. Ice upon the River beginning to Break & move about.