1[Diary entry: 26 November 1785] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 26th. Thermometer at 44 in the Morning—51 at Noon and 50 at Night. Wind Westerly and rather Cool in the Morning but less of it & warmer afterwards. Day variable—Clouds & sunshine. Colo. Lee & his Lady went away after breakfast—crossing to Maryland on their Way home.
2Farm Reports, 26 November 1785–15 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
In the fall of 1785 Lund Washington indicated to GW his wish to give up the management of the Mount Vernon plantation, a task he had performed for the past twenty-one years including the nearly nine years that GW was away during the war ( GW to Lund Washington, 20 Nov. 1785 ). GW decided to ask his nephew George Augustine Washington, who was living at Mount Vernon with his bride, Fannie...
3From George Washington to John Fitzgerald, 26 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
If the necessary alterations are made in the petition and Bills which were drawn by Mr Johnson—and fair copies of them taken the sooner they are forwarded to the respective assemblies the better. —Time is gliding away—at the latter part of a session the members get impatient and but too often reject matters, because they will not spare time to attend to them.—I am—Dear Sir Yr Obed. Servt G....