George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 7 July 1771]

7. At Home all day. Mr. Alexr. Ross of Pittsburg and Mr. George Digges dined here & went away in the Afternoon.

Alexander Ross, a Scottish merchant who settled in Pittsburgh in 1763, served as the supplier to the Fort Pitt garrison. When the fort was abandoned by the British army in 1772 Ross bought the buildings. Like GW, he was heavily involved in western lands.

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    [Diary entry: 7 July 1771]
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    Washington, George
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    7 July 1771

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    “[Diary entry: 7 July 1771],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0001-0016-0007. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 39.]