1[Diary entry: 20 March 1771] (Washington Papers)
20. At home all day (except before Breakfast when I rid to the Mill) with the above Company.
2[Diary entry: 20 March 1771] (Washington Papers)
20. Smoky, and more or less Cloudy with but little Wind and pleast.
3Remarks & Occurs. in March [1771] (Washington Papers)
20th. Began to Manufacture my Wheat with the Water of Piney Branch, which being insufficient to keep the Mill constantly at Work, & Country Custom coming in no great progress coud be made. country custom : Farmers from the local countryside were bringing their grain to GW’s mill to be ground in exchange for a one-eighth toll ( HENING William Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large; Being a...
4[Diary entry: 20 March 1771] (Washington Papers)
20th. Began to Manufacture my Wheat with the Water of Piney Branch, which being insufficient to keep the Mill constantly at Work, & Country Custom coming in no great progress coud be made. country custom : Farmers from the local countryside were bringing their grain to GW’s mill to be ground in exchange for a one-eighth toll ( HENING William Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large; Being a...