1[August 1765] (Washington Papers)
3. Began to sow Turneps behind the Garden—the upper part of which, & down to a stake is the Norfolk Turnep. From thence to the bottom Naper Turnep. 5. Finishd sowing Do. & a good shower fell thereon the same day. GW wrote to Burwell Bassett 2 Aug. that the weather had rendered the prospects of a good crop “truely melancholy.” “I lost most of my wheat by the rust, so that I shall undergo the...
2[Diary entry: 3 August 1765] (Washington Papers)
3. Began to sow Turneps behind the Garden—the upper part of which, & down to a stake is the Norfolk Turnep. From thence to the bottom Naper Turnep.
3To George Washington from Crosbies & Trafford, 3 August 1765 (Washington Papers)
We have before us Your favour 6 March Covering Bill Lading of four Hhds Tobo ⅌ Our Snow Virginian Capt. McCabe which we doubt it will not be in our Power to render You the Sales by this Opportunity as the Slow Demand for that Article & the Long detention of our Vessell in the Country which has obliged us to fitt her out with all Dispatch will deprive us of that pleasure we always Shall make a...