1[Diary entry: 3 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Went the above rounds before dinner—but did not go out afterwards.
2[Diary entry: 3 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Wind fresh and cool from the So. West—which shifted to the So. Et. and East, & began to Rain briskly abt. Sunset attended with thunder & Lightg.
3[Diary entry: 3 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Thomas Emmerson set into ditchg. on my Mill Race on the same terms as above that is 1/3 pr. Rod & finding himself. Finished planting Corn at Muddy hole Plantation. Thomas Emmison had been hired by Lund Washington in 1764 to work on a mill then being built, apparently under Lund’s general supervision, for William Fitzhugh of Chatham, Stafford County (Lund Washington’s account book, 1762–85,...