87511774. Tuesday. Septr. 27. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Bayards, with Dr. Cox, Dr. Rush, Mr. Hodge, Mr. Deane, Coll. Dyer. Dr. Cox gave us a Toast “May the fair Dove of Liberty, in this Deluge of Despotism, find Rest to the Sole of her Foot in America.”
8752[Diary entry: 9 November 1772] (Washington Papers)
9. Ditto—Ditto.
8753[Diary entry: 3 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Clear & pleasantly warm. The Wind being at So. West & rather fresh in the Afternoon.
8754[Diary entry: 11 February 1772] (Washington Papers)
11. Went out to make some further discovery of the Lines of West French & Manley & was much fatiegued by the deepness and toughness of the Snow. John West, Jr., Penelope French, and Harrison Manley owned land between the Mill and Ferry plantations (see map, 1:240).
8755[April 1770] (Washington Papers)
Apl. 1. Went to Pohick Church and returnd home to Dinner. 2. Rid to see Mr. Humphrey Peake who lay ill. Returnd to Dinner. 3. Rid to see Mr. Peake again with Mrs. Washington. Returnd to Dinner. 4. Rid to the Mill—Doeg Run and Muddy hole. 5. Rid into the Neck and called to see Mr. Peake in my way. 6. Went a hunting but found nothing. Returnd to Dinner. 7. Run round the Lines of the Land I...
8756Cash Accounts, August 1767 (Washington Papers)
Contra Augt 2— By Mrs Washington 5 Dollars £ 1.10.0 By Jno. Houlsworth Hackling &ca 4. 0.0 3— By Cash left with Lund Washington viz. 30 Dollars @ 6/ & 20/ paper 10. 0.0 7— By Smith for Clamping my Wheels 0. 7.6 By Charity 5. 0.0 [Maryland currency] By Ditto at Sundry times 3.17.0 11— By 1 Whetstone 0. 1.3
8757[Diary entry: 29 April 1772] (Washington Papers)
29. Clear, Calm and very warm again.
8758[Diary entry: 22 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
Monday 22d. As it began to Snow about Midnight, & continued pretty steadily at it, it was about ½ after Seven before we left our Incampment. At the distance of about 8 Miles we came to the Mouth of Yellow Creek (to the West) opposite to, or rather below which, appears to be a long bottom of very good Land, and the Assent to the Hills apparently gradual. There is another pretty large bottom of...
8759Poor Richard, 1738 (Franklin Papers)
Poor Richard, 1738. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1738 ,... By Richard Saunders, Philom. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the New Printing-Office near the Market. (Yale University Library) My good Man set out last Week for Potowmack, to visit an old Stargazer of his Acquaintance, and see about a little Place for us to settle and end our Days on. He left the Copy of his...
8760[Diary entry: 26 August 1772] (Washington Papers)
26. At home this day also.
8761[Diary entry: 20 March 1770] (Washington Papers)
20. Clear & pleasant Morning with the Wind at South but lowering Afternoon & very cloudy Evening.
8762[Diary entry: 9 May 1769] (Washington Papers)
9. Dined at the Palace, & spent the Evening in my own Room. The burgesses on this day began the routine business of considering various petitions and claims from citizens.
8763[Diary entry: 20 March 1762] (Washington Papers)
20. Finished Plowing for Oats—abt. 20 Acs.
8764[Diary entry: 17 January 1771] (Washington Papers)
17. Rid to the Mill &ca. in the Afternn. and went up to Alexa. with Mrs. Washington & Patcy Custis in the Afternoon.
8765[Diary entry: 6 July 1769] (Washington Papers)
6. Finishd the half cut by the Gate before breakfast & the rest of the other half afterwards, just getting into the last Cut before sunset.
8766Acct. of the Weather—in August [1769] (Washington Papers)
Augt. 1st. Very cool Morning, & not an unpleasant day. 2. Cool Morning & Evening again but midling warm Midday. 3. Clear with more warmth—but not hot. 4. Tolerably warm with the Mornings & Evenings still cool. 5. Warm morning & hot day with a thunder shower—to the Westward. 6. Warm again, with appearances of Rain but none fell. 7. Warm, but a brisk breeze about Noon. 8. Again Warm with a...
87671774. Monday Octr. 17. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Home.
8768[Diary entry: 1 February 1772] (Washington Papers)
Feb. 1st. Snow still so deep that there was no passing from one place to another where there was no tract made. Day for the most part clear, tho’ the Sky lookd muddy. Weather Mild & wind what little there was Southerly.
8769List of Papers Relating to Georgia, [after 29 January 1771]: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society <After Jan. 29, 1771: a list in Franklin’s hand, by title only, of “Papers in this Parcel.” All have to do with Georgia, and range through the decade 1761–71. They include actions by the legislature and the British government, letters to Franklin from the Speaker and the Assembly committee (many of them printed above), and documents relating to Sir William...
8770[Diary entry: 26 February 1769] (Washington Papers)
26. At home all day alone.
8771[Diary entry: 29 September 1771] (Washington Papers)
29. Dined with Majr. Jenifer and Suppd at Danl. Dulany Esqrs. Daniel Dulany the younger (1722–1797), son of Daniel Dulany the elder and his second wife, Rebecca Smith Dulany (c.1696–1737), was one of the most important men in Maryland at this time, being both a councillor and secretary of the colony. Even his antagonist Charles Carroll of Annapolis admitted in 1765 that “He is a man of Great...
8772[Diary entry: 26 December 1771] (Washington Papers)
26. Went a hunting in the Neck early. Killd a Fox and dined with several others at Mr. Peake’s.
8773[Diary entry: 20 July 1769] (Washington Papers)
20. About Noon it raind 10 or 15 Minutes pretty smartly and then cleard. Wind being pretty fresh from So. Wt.
8774[Diary entry: 16 August 1772] (Washington Papers)
16. Very warm—in the Evening great appearances of Rain but none fell here.
87751774. Thursday. Sept. 29. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Home, with the Delegates from North Carolina and a No. of other Gentlemen.
8776[Diary entry: 13 November 1772] (Washington Papers)
13th. Dined at Mrs. Dawsons & went to a Ball at the Apollo [Room, Raleigh Tavern] in the Evening.
8777[Diary entry: 7 January 1771] (Washington Papers)
7. Very Raw, Cold & Cloudy in the forenoon but clear afternoon.
8778[Diary entry: 17 April 1771] (Washington Papers)
17. Began to Plant Corn at my Mill Plantation.
8779Acct. of the Wheather in May [1770] (Washington Papers)
May 1st. A hard frost which destroyd all the Peaches &ca. from the Water. Wind still at No. Wt. & West but neither so cold nor hard as the two preceeding days. 2. Calm and tolerably pleasant again altho the Morning was cool. 3. Wind fresh and cool from the So. West—which shifted to the So. Et. and East, & began to Rain briskly abt. Sunset attended with thunder & Lightg. 4. Very Cloudy, Misty &...
87801774. Tuesday. Novr. 8. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted at Coll. Henshaws of Leicester. Dined at Woodburns of Worcester. Furnival made the two young Ladies come in and sing Us the New Liberty Song. Lodged at Coll. Buckminsters of Framingham.
8781[Diary entry: 26 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
Friday 26th. Left our Incampment at half an hour after 6 Oclock & passd a small run on the West side about 4 Miles lower. At the lower end of the long reach, & for some distance up it, on the East side, is a large bottom, but low, & coverd with beach next the River shore, which is no Indication of good Land. The long reach is a strait course of the river for abt. 18 or 20 Miles which appears...
8782[Diary entry: 30 August 1772] (Washington Papers)
30. At home all day. Mr. Willm. Digges Dined here.
8783[Diary entry: 16 February 1769] (Washington Papers)
16. Very hard frost. The River which hath never been clear of Ice since the 6th. was quite shut up today. Morng. clear & cold, wind Northly.—afternn. wind Southly.
8784[Diary entry: 19 September 1771] (Washington Papers)
19. A small frost, but to do no Injury Weather still cool and clear, but not so cold.
8785[Diary entry: 13 May 1769] (Washington Papers)
13. Dined at Mrs. Campbells and went over to Gloucester to Colo. W. Lewis’s afterwards. Col. Warner Lewis (b. 1720), son of Col. John and Frances Fielding Lewis, lived at Warner Hall in Gloucester County. He was the elder brother of Fielding Lewis, husband of GW’s sister Betty ( sorley Merrow Egerton Sorley, comp. Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family . . . . 1935. Reprint. Baltimore,...
8786[Diary entry: 24 March 1775] (Washington Papers)
24. Dined at Galts & spent the Evening & lodgd at Mr. Saml. Duvals. The convention decided on this day to send seven delegates to the Second Continental Congress ( VAN SCHREEVEN William J. Van Schreeven et al., eds. Revolutionary Virginia: The Road to Independence. A Documentary Record . 7 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1973–83. , 2:371). Samuel Du Val (1714–1784) lived near Shockoe Creek at...
8787[Diary entry: 21 January 1771] (Washington Papers)
21. Went up to Court Mrs. Washington & Patcy Custis with me. Returnd in the Afternoon & Mr. Hr. Ross with us. The January court met only today. At this session Lund Washington and James Wren, two witnesses to the signing of Valinda Wade’s deeds to GW 17–18 Dec. 1770, took oaths verifying those deeds, and the justices ordered the documents to be certified (Fairfax County Order Book for 1770–72,...
8788[Diary entry: 16 December 1771] (Washington Papers)
16. Clear Calm and pleasant with but little Wind.
8789[Diary entry: 15 July 1769] (Washington Papers)
15. Finishd at Do. by Breakfast time and went from hence to Doeg run Plantation & Cut the small field in this side the Run before Dinner. Note—from the Remarks and observations made this year in Harvesting my Wheat, it appeard evident that 10 and sometimes 9 Cradlers (according as the Wheat was thick or thin) were full suff. to keep the rest of my hands employd—and it likewise appeard that it...
8790[Diary entry: 14 August 1772] (Washington Papers)
14. Sowed all the Ground at the Ferry on this side the Swamp 68½ Bushels put therein.
87911774 Thursday Octr. 20. (Adams Papers)
Dined with the whole Congress at the City Tavern, at the Invitation of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pensylvania, the whole House dined with Us, making near 100 Guests in the whole—a most elegant Entertainment. A Sentiment was given, “May the Sword of the Parent never be Stain’d with the Blood of her Children.” Two or 3 broadbrims, over against me at Table—one of em said this...
8792[Diary entry: 3 November 1772] (Washington Papers)
3. Clear & pleasant, being somewhat cool Wind Westerly.
8793Novr. 14th. 1761. (Adams Papers)
Brother Quincy and I were Sworn, before the Superiour Court. It is now more than five Years since I began the study of the Law. And it is about three Years, since I was sworn at the Inferiour Court. “Upon a motion made by Jeremy Gridley Esqr. the Oath of an Attorney by the province Law prescribed was administred to Messrs. Samuel Quincy and John Adams in Order to their practising in this...
8794The Pleadings Book: 1771–1773 (Adams Papers)
Case on a Bill of Lading vs. Master for not delivering the Plaintiff’s Goods freighted on Board the Defendant’s Vessell. For that the said Charles on &c.—received on board his said Ship called the X X and whereof the said Charles was Master (H ogshea ds, Casks &c.) containing the Goods in the schedule annexed—And on the &c.—at —— signed a certain Note in Writing called a Bill of Lading and...
8795[Diary entry: 19 April 1768] (Washington Papers)
19. Measurd the Field designd for Corn at the Mill, and Doeg Run this year.
8796[Diary entry: 30 December 1771] (Washington Papers)
30. Went a hunting again with the former Compa. but found nothing. Dined at Mr. Wm. Triplets. Miss Peake &ca. went home.
8797[Diary entry: 27 May 1774] (Washington Papers)
27. Clear and something Cooler.
8798[Diary entry: 20 August 1772] (Washington Papers)
20. Clear and pleasant with but little Wind and that Westerly.
8799[September 1765] (Washington Papers)
4. Began to Pull the Seed Hemp but it was not sufficiently ripe. 5. 6. 7. 9. } Sowed Turneps behind the Garden. Getting of Fodder at Mill & Muddy H. 15. To this date my Carpenters had in all worked 82 days on my Schooner. The schooner, apparently built at Mount Vernon, was finished and rigged by Dec. 1765 and launched the following February. 22. This Week they workd 22 days upon her. Here GW...
8800[Diary entry: 3 May 1769] (Washington Papers)
3. Cool and clear with the Wind Northwardly. Evening more moderate.