8701March 18 [i.e. 19?]. Monday (Adams Papers)
This whole Day is dedicated to walking, riding, talk, &c. No Reading to day. Twas Avarice, not Compassion that induced to pass the last Court. He was afraid that Pen would be provoked to appeal both to the Superior Court if he put both in suit, and so keep him out of his Money for 6 or 8 months. 6 months without Interest. Tis fear of loosing the Interest upon Interest that induces him to pass...
8702Memoranda, 3 August–17 September 1757 (Washington Papers)
Govr Write him how desirous the Indns are of havg a Drum. I have promisd to get one or two for Atosite. Belhaven Send up Wine for the Use of the Hospital. Also Tin for the Publick Works. Send up Mr Dicks Order to my Overseer for the Pigs. Mr Kirkpatrick Write to him & know whether the two Sums given credit for by Captn Bell were really recd or a mistake & how the 100£ advancd Majr Lewis is to...
8703To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Wharton, 30 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The Bearer hereof is Dr. Jonathan Potts son of your Friend John Potts Esqr. He pays Europe a Visit for an Improvement in the Duties of his Profession. He has requested me to mention his Name to you; Which I am persuaded, is all, that is Necessary, to introduce Him to Gentlemen of the first Character in the Physical Class. I did myself the Pleasure to call...
8704[Diary entry: 27 January 1772] (Washington Papers)
27. A Snow which began in the Night and was about 5 or 6 Inches deep this Morning kept constantly at it the whole day with the Wind hard & Cold from the Northward.
8705[Diary entry: 16 August 1770] (Washington Papers)
16. Some Rain again [in] the Night with hard winds.
8706[Diary entry: 24 May 1772] (Washington Papers)
24. Set out after Dinner for Loud[ou]n &ca. Reachd Mr. Fairfax’s and lodged there. Peale remained at Mount Vernon to paint miniatures of Patsy and Jacky Custis. Jacky also paid Peale for a miniature of his mother, Martha Washington, probably for Jacky’s own use ( General Ledger B General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 50;...
8707Report of the Commissioners to Examine the Accounts of the Militia, 9 November 1764 (Washington Papers)
Mr George Washington laid before the House a Report from the Commissioners appointed by Act of Assembly to examine, state, and settle, the Account of the Pay, Provisions, Arms, and Necessaries, for the Militia of this Colony; which was read, and is as follows: The Commissioners not thinking themselves empowered by Law to allow some of the Officers lately employed in the Service of the Country...
8708[Diary entry: 11 May 1767] (Washington Papers)
11. Finishd plantg. Corn in the Neck & began with 4 plows to break up the 5 foot cut.
8709[Diary entry: 13 November 1770] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 13th. We dispatchd ⟨ ⟩ young Indian express to Val⟨ ⟩ Crawford, who had the charge o⟨f⟩ them to proceed on ⟨ ⟩ that place, where we purp⟨osed⟩ if possible, to get the Canoe ⟨it⟩ being about 50 Miles below ⟨ ⟩ In pursuance of this resolu⟨tion⟩ we Imbark’d again, and with ⟨diffi⟩culty got about 5 Miles furth⟨er⟩ to the Mouth of the Upperm⟨ost⟩ broken timber Creek. In ⟨ ⟩ of last Night...
8710[Diary entry: 11 March 1773] (Washington Papers)
11. Dined and Spent the Evening in the Club Room at Mrs. Campbells.
8711Deposition of Silas Burbank: 28 June 1773 (Adams Papers)
I Silas Burbanks of lawful age testify and say, that in the spring of the Year 1766, a few days before the riot at Mr. Richard Kings dwelling house, I was at the house of Mr. John Stewart, and he was talking to me about said King; he asked me if he was not a bad man, and had not done as much hurt to the people here, as Bute had done to the people at home; and afterwards, the day before the...
8712[Diary entry: 30 August 1770] (Washington Papers)
30. Still at Colchester upon the business before mentioned.
8713[Diary entry: 26 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
26. Clear and very warm with but little Wind.
8714[Diary entry: 8 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
8. Cloudy the first part of the day—wind westwardly. Ground very wet.
8715[Diary entry: 9 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
9. Had a cold Cut at Mrs. Campbells and went up to Eltham in the afternoon. The burgesses adjourned today until Monday morning, 11 June ( JHB H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia . 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15. , 1770–72 , 61).
8716[Diary entry: 11 July 1763] (Washington Papers)
11. Cut & Stacked wheat at Mudy. hole & Cut Rye there.
8717Orderly Book, 17 November 1758 (Washington Papers)
Camp at Bullock Camp Novr 17 1758 Parole Cumberland Capt. for the Day Capt. Alexr Bell. The Soldiers are always to have their provisions dressd of the Over night that their March may not be retardd. The Same Number of working Party to morrow as was this day & to march at the same time under the Commd of Majr Waddall the Genl & Assembly to beat as this day. D , DLC:GW . See “ Orderly Book, 21...
8718[Diary entry: 29 August 1770] (Washington Papers)
29. The Rain that Fell last Night made the Ground too wet for plowing.
8719[Diary entry: 14 May 1772] (Washington Papers)
14. Clear, and tolerably pleasant with but little Wind and that Southerly.
8720[Diary entry: 22 November 1770] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 22. Stayd at Pittsburg all day. Invited the Officers & some other Gentlemen to dinner with me at Samples—among which was one Doctr. Connelly (nephew to Colo. Croghan) a very sensible Intelligent Man who had travelld over a good deal of this western Country both by Land & Water & confirms Nicho⟨l⟩sons Acct. of the good Land on the Shawana River up which he had been near 400 Miles. This...
8721Monday. June 17th. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Sat out upon the Eastern Circuit. Stopped at Boston, at my Office, and no where else. Came over Charlestown Ferry and Penny Ferry, and dined at Kettles in Maiden, by the Meeting House. Kettle is a D eputy Sherriff. The Meeting House is Mr. Thatchers. I mounted my Horse and rode to Boston in a Cloth Coat and Waiscoat, but was much pinched with a cold, raw, harsh, N.E. Wind. At Boston I put on a...
8722Letter to the Public Advertiser, [before 31 January 1774] (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress This document is among those calculated to teach editors humility. We have failed to discover either its date or the source of the dialogue that drives home its point. The date depends on that of the letter to the Public Advertiser which Franklin is answering, and which we have been unable to locate. Neither could Verner Crane, and he concluded for another reason that...
8723[Diary entry: 1 March 1773] (Washington Papers)
March 1st. Snowing all the forenoon—Wind being at No. East, which shifting to the No. West blew hard and dispeld the Clouds.
8724Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, 15 May 1754 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, 1753–1754 (Philadelphia, 1754), p. 59. The Pennsylvania Assembly had adjourned twice, on March 9 and again on April 13, without taking action to assist Virginia in the defense of the upper Ohio Valley against the French advance (see above, pp. 229 n, 258). The day after the Assembly met again on May 6, Governor Hamilton informed...
8725[Diary entry: 25 March 1770] (Washington Papers)
25. At home all day. In the afternoon Messrs. B. Fairfax & Robt. & Philip Alexander came here.
8726From Benjamin Franklin to Rudolph Erich Raspe, 9 September 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Landesbibliothek, Kassel I received your obliging Favour of Augt. 28. with the Paper enclos’d for the Monthly Review, which I shall communicate to the Managers of that Work, and imagine I shall prevail with them to do you better Justice. I am oblig’d to you for the Trouble you took in the Affair of my little Bill. As the other Bankers beside the Jew, have satisfy’d you that it was fully...
8727[Diary entry: 29 October 1772] (Washington Papers)
29. Still lowering with the Wind Easterly.
8728[Diary entry: 31 January 1772] (Washington Papers)
31. For the most part Cloudy and hazy like with but little Wind & that from the Southward. Warm at least not Cold. For several days GW had been experiencing what one meteorologist has called “the greatest snowstorm in the history of the middle and lower Potomac Valley” ( LUDLUM David M. Ludlum. Early American Winters, 1604-1820 . Boston, 1966. , 144; BETTS [2] Edwin Morris Betts, ed. Thomas...
8729[Diary entry: 20 August 1770] (Washington Papers)
20. Very warm all Day. In the Night a good deal of Rain and a sudden change in the Air.
8730[Diary entry: 26 October 1762] (Washington Papers)
26. Put up at Muddy hole 21 hogs at Doag Run 9 at Ditto from Mill 16 at Creek Qr. 6 at Rivr. Side 4 56
8731Remarks—on the—Weather [October 1768] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1. Clear and pleasant. Still forenoon but brisk Southwestwardly Wind afterwds. 2. Clear, Warm, & Still in the forenoon, a small Southwardly breeze in the Afternoon. 3. Clear & pleasant, with but little Wind & that Southwardly. 4. Brisk Southwestwardly Wind & warm with flying Clouds. 5. Rain in the Night—& in the Morning—clear abt. 8 Oclock with showers afterwards with the Wind westwardly...
8732[Diary entry: 7 February 1772] (Washington Papers)
7. Attempted to ride to the Mill, but the Snow was so deep & crusty, even in the Tract that had been made that I chose to Tye my Horse half way & walk there.
8733[Diary entry: 4 June 1772] (Washington Papers)
4. Set of on my return home. Dined at the Widow Evans’s & lodged at Mr. Edward Paynes. Two widows named Evans lived in Loudoun County about this time: Mary Evans (died c.1789), widow of John Evans (d. 1770), and Sarah Evans, widow of Price Evans (d. 1770), formerly of Pennsylvania ( KING [6] J. Estelle Stewart King, comp. Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Administration Accounts of Loudoun...
87341771. [ca. 20] July. (Adams Papers)
Tuesday went to Boston with my Wife, and the next day to Commencement at Cambridge, was only at 3 Chambers—Palmers, Frenches and Rogers’s. Approximately dated from the reference to commencement at Harvard, which took place this year on Wednesday, 17 July.
8735King’s Offer of Settlement: 27 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
Richard King To those Imediately Consirned in his action of review against them Depending &c. and any others that the matter of that action may Consern I am Sensable that when a man has Entered the field in order to do him Selfe Justice against those from whom he has receved an Injury then To offer Terms to his adversary is often Constered a weakness of mind, or want of abillity, notwithstand...
8736[Diary entry: 29 April 1769] (Washington Papers)
29. Misty all day with the wind still Eastwardly & fresh.
8737[Diary entry: 1 September 1772] (Washington Papers)
Septr. 1st. Rid to the Ferry & from thence to the Mill. In the Afternoon Doctr. Rumney came & lodgd all Night.
8738[Diary entry: 30 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
30. Raining more or less all day with the Wind at No. Et.
8739[Diary entry: 16 March 1770] (Washington Papers)
16. Wind blowing fresh & clear all day from the No. West.
8740[Diary entry: 12 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
12. Sowed Hemp at the Mill—none elsewhere ground being wet. Clear wind Northwardly.
8741[Diary entry: 13 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
13. Dined at the Club and spent the Evening in my own Room. GW on this date received £357 10s. in cash from Joseph Valentine, manager of the Custis plantations ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 318).
8742[July 1769] (Washington Papers)
July 1st. Went into the Neck to my Harvest People & returnd to Dinner. 2. At home all day—the Captn. of the Burmudian dining here. the captn. of the burmudian : Captain Burch, from whom GW bought 562 barrels of salt, a cotton line, and 40 yards of nautical rope, totaling £35 7s. 6d. ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5,...
8743Bond of John Posey, 14 October 1770 (Washington Papers)
[ 14 Oct. 1770 ]. “Whereas his present Majesty by his Royal Proclamation given at St James the 7th of October 1763, and Published in the Virginia Gazette on the 12th day of Jany 1764 was Graciously pleased to give & Grant to every Officer & Soldier according to their respective Ranks (as well Provencials as others) certain quantities of waste & ungranted Land in any of his Governmts in North...
8744Fryday. Oct. 6. (Adams Papers)
Rose about sun rise. Unpitched a Load of Hay. Translated 2 Leaves more of Justinian, and in the afternoon walked to Deacon Webbs, then round by the Mill Pond home. Smoaked a Pipe with Webb at the Drs. and am now about reading over again Gilberts section of feudal Tenures.
8745[Diary entry: 28 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
28. Much such a day as the preceeding one.
8746[Diary entry: 29 March 1770] (Washington Papers)
29. Running some Lines by Mr. Wm. Triplets all day.
8747Adams’ Diary: 4 April 1767 (Adams Papers)
Poor Nye of Sandwich, seems dejected. I should suspect by his Concern that Cotton gained Ground vs. him. He seems to be hipp’d. It fretts and worries and mortifies him. He cant sleep a Nights. His Health is infirm. Cotton is insane, wild. His Proposal of giving his House and Farm at Sandwich to the Province is a Proof of Insanity.... His sitting down at the Council Table with his Hat on and...
8748[Diary entry: 16 July 1769] (Washington Papers)
16. Warm with some Appearances of Clouds—but no Rain. Wind abt. S.W.
8749[Diary entry: 26 June 1766] (Washington Papers)
26. Began to Cut my Timothy Meadow at Doeg Run & did not finish it till the 8th. of July—the Weather being Rainy & bad—which almost spoil’d 30,000 weight of Hay.
8750Observations—in—November [1768] (Washington Papers)
Novr. Put up my Beeves & Weathers to Fatten—about the 25th.—of Octr. Put up Hogs to fatten. 14. Began to gather Corn at Muddy hole in the Neck. 21. Measurd the Cut of Corn in the Neck adjoing. to the Gate, the contents of which was . 22. Began to gather Corn at the Mill.