[Diary entry: 12 February 1774]

12. After dinner the two Crawfords & Mr. Stephenson set out for Wmsburg. & Mr. Rutherford and Mr. Beall for their respective homes.

Valentine Crawford and Hugh Stephenson were carrying a letter from GW to Governor Dunmore, dated 11 Feb., attesting to their satisfactory military service in the early 1760s, by which they hoped to qualify for western bounty land under the royal Proclamation of 1763 (ViW). Thomas Rutherford was carrying a letter from GW dated this day recommending him as an assistant surveyor (PPiU).

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Title: [Diary entry: 12 February 1774]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 12 February 1774

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 12 February 1774],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0004-0003-0012. [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. 232.]