1[Diary entry: 7 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
7. Clear with but little Wind—& that Southwardly.
2[Diary entry: 7 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
7. Came home in the Morning & remaind. Mr. Townd. Dade (of Chotk.) came here. This was probably Townshend (Townsend) Dade (d. 1781), originally of the Chotank area of Stafford County. He had by his first wife, Elizabeth Alexander Dade, five children who lived to adulthood, including Elizabeth Dade (b. 1734), who in 1751 married GW’s Chotank cousin Lawrence Washington (1728–c.1813). Dade next...