[Diary entry: 19 April 1773]

19. At home all day alone except Mr. Smith (manager of Messrs. Herberts &ca. fishery) who stays here.

Mr. Smith may be Edward Smith (1752–1826). According to Toner, Smith—who first appeared at Mount Vernon on 7 July 1770—was a clerk for Herbert & Co., the firm which contracted for the catch from one of GW’s fisheries (DLC: Toner Collection). Herbert & Co. probably rented one of the fisheries on Clifton’s Neck (Md. Gaz., 9 Sept. 1773).

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Title: [Diary entry: 19 April 1773]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 19 April 1773

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 19 April 1773],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0003-0008-0019. [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. 173.]