[Diary entry: 12 January 1768]

12. Attempted to go into the Neck on the Ice but it wd. not bear. In the Evening Mr. Chs. Dick Mr. Muse & my Brother Charles came here.

Charles Dick (b. 1715), of Caroline and Spotsylvania counties, supplied GW’s troops in 1754–55 as a Virginia commissary for the British forces. By 1768 Dick’s mercantile business was centered in Fredericksburg. George Muse of Caroline County, married Elizabeth Battaile (d. 1786) in 1749 and had a son, Battaile Muse (1751–1803), who also appears in the diaries.

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Title: [Diary entry: 12 January 1768]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 12 January 1768

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 12 January 1768],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0003-0001-0012. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 31.]