1To Benjamin Franklin from William Small, 10 August 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress The reason of your having no sooner received the Quotation from Celsus is, that I wished to employ my very first leisure in looking in several other ancient books for passages to the same purpose, and to send you all together. But Mr. Keir having told me of your desire to see that immediately, you have it almost alone. In the article de Tabe in his third book,...
2[Diary entry: 10 August 1771] (Washington Papers)
10. Clear and Cool Wind being Northwesterly.
3[Diary entry: 10 August 1771] (Washington Papers)
10. Rid to the Mill Doeg run and Muddy hole.
4[Diary entry: 10 August 1771] (Washington Papers)
10. Finish’d Sowing all the Corn Ground at the Mill & began to prepare the Fallowd Land there for Sowing. Also Raised a House at the Mill for the Miller to live In. The miller’s house, a one-story wooden structure about 24 by 16 feet with a small separate kitchen, was conveniently located within 30 yards of the new mill ( GW to Robert Lewis & Sons, 1 Feb. 1785 , DLC:GW ; Lawrence Lewis’s...