1To Benjamin Franklin from Ebenezer Kinnersley, 13 October 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : the Royal Society I received your Favour of March 18. I thank you for speaking to Mr. Nairne; he has now sent a Thermometer that pleases. The English School has indeed been discouraged, and, in Consequence, declining; Particulars would be too tedious to mention now; I have been almost determined to seek my Fortune abroad again. The Conducting Quality of some Sorts of Charcoal is indeed...
2[Diary entry: 13 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
13. Left this place early in the Morning and arrivd at Captn. Crawfords (known by the name of Stewarts crossing) abt. ½ after four Oclock. Stewart’s Crossing was on the Youghiogheny River below present-day Connellsville, Pa. The site was named for William Stewart, who settled there in 1753 ( cook Roy Bird Cook. Washington’s Western Lands . Strasburg, Va., 1930. , 15). Braddock’s army had...
3[Diary entry: 13 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
13. Clear and pleasant. Wind tolerably fresh from the Westward all day.
4[Diary entry: 13 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
13. Set out about Sunrise, breakfasted at the Great Meadows 13 Miles of, & reachd Captn. Crawfords about 5 Oclock. The Lands we travelld over to day till we had crossd the Laurel Hill (except in smal spots) was very Mountainous & indifferent—but when we came down the Hill to the Plantation of Mr. Thos. Gist the L[an]d, appeard charming; that which lay level being as rich & black as any thing...
5Agreement of Lund Washington with William Roberts, 13 October 1770 (Washington Papers)
Memorandum of an Agreemt enter’d into this 13th day of Octr 1770 Between William Roberts of the Province of Pensylvania & Lund Washington in behalf of George Washington of Virginia the above Wm Roberts doth agree to serve the sd George Washington in the capacity of a Miller & with the Assistance of a Prentice Boy sd Roberts now hath he is to doe Every Necessary work that will be requisite in a...