15451[Diary entry: 1 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
Novr. 1. At home all day. Mr. Ramsay, Mr. Muir, Mr. Rob. Harrison & Doctr. Rumney came here to Dinner & stayed all Night.
15452[Diary entry: 1 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
Novr. 1st. Clear & pleasant, but somewhat Cool till Eveng. then Rain.
154531774. Wednesday. Novr. 2. (Adams Papers)
Rode to Bulkleys at Fairfield to dinner, and to Captn. Benjamins of Stratford to lodge.
15454To Benjamin Franklin from John Foxcroft, 2 November 1774 (Franklin Papers)
Extract in Franklin’s hand: American Philosophical Society Mr. Colden is now busy in making out a fair and clear State of the Office Accounts, which will assuredly be transmitted together with proper Vouchers by the next Packet. The first in a series, headed “Extracts of Letters from Mr. Foxcroft to B Franklin,” that BF enclosed in his note to Anthony Todd below, March 18. We have deleted his...
15455[Diary entry: 2 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
2. The Gentlemen went away after Breakfast. I rid to the Mill. Mr. Ben. Dulany & Wife came here to Dinner & stayd all Night as did Mr. R. Thompson. Richard Thompson was living on the Maryland side of the Great Falls of the Potomac, where he was trying to establish a business in the manufacturing and sale of smoking tobacco, chewing tobacco, and snuff. In 1774 he was appointed to be the clerk...
15456[Diary entry: 2 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
2. Again cool & somewhat lowering.
15457To Benjamin Franklin from Jane Mecom, 3–21 November 1774 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have Just rec’d yours of August 18 wonder to see you complain of not recveing leters from Boston. I think what ever they omited they would not neglect that, but it is like they have been Intercepted. I wrot about a month ago to go by Mr. Hyslop but He liveing out of town and leaveing His only Daughter very sick I beleve made Him forgit to call for it but...
154581774. Thursday. Novr. 3. (Adams Papers)
We design to Great Swamp to day. 42 miles. At Newhaven, Coll. Dyer, Deane and Sherman, Mr. Parsons, the new Speaker Williams, Mr. Trumbull and many other Gentlemen came to see us at Beers’s as soon as we got in. Coll. Dyer presented the Compliments of the Governor and Council to the Massachusetts Delegates and asked our Company, to spend the Evening. I begged Coll. Dyer to present my Duty to...
15459[Diary entry: 3 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
3. I went up to Alexandria after the Company abovementioned Went away. Returnd in the Aftern.
15460[Diary entry: 3 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
3. Clear & pleasant but little Wind.
154611774. Fryday. Novr. 4. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Hartford, at Bulls, where we had the Pleasure of seeing Mr. Adams’s Minister Mr. How, who is supposed to be courting here. Lodged at Dr. Chafy’s Chaffee’s in Windsor. Very cordially entertained.
15462[Diary entry: 4 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
4. At home all day alone.
15463[Diary entry: 4 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
4. Cool but clear with but little Wind.
154641774 Saturday. Novr. 5. (Adams Papers)
Break fasted at Austins of Suffield. Went to see a Company of Men exercising upon the Hill, under the Command of a green coated Man, lately a Regular. A Company of very likely stout men. Dined at Parsons’s of Springfield. Captn. Pynchon and another Pynchon, and Mr. Bliss, came in to see Us, and at last Coll. Worthington. Worthington behaved decently and politely. Said he was in Hopes we should...
15465To Benjamin Franklin from John Foxcroft, 5 November 1774 (Franklin Papers)
Extract in Franklin’s hand: American Philosophical Society If you see Mr. Todd, I beg you will let him know Mr. Finley and I are at Work preparing the necessary Papers to accompany the Accounts by the next Packet, agreable to the new Form you transmitted me.... I am truly sorry that my Brother should have fallen under the least Suspicions of being dilatory in rendring his Accounts and...
15466[Diary entry: 5 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
5. Ditto. Mr. Piercy a Presbeterian Minister dined here. Mr. Piercy was probably William Piercy (Percy), a Calvinistic Methodist and disciple of George Whitefield. Piercy was chaplain to Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon, a devoted follower of the new Methodist movement. In order to give protection to Methodist preachers, she appointed large members of them to the nominal position of...
15467[Diary entry: 5 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
5. Very pleasant with but little [wind].
154681774. Sunday. Novr. 6. (Adams Papers)
Went all day to hear Mr. Baldwin a Presbyterian Minister at Kingston. We put up at Scotts. Mr. Baldwin came in the Evening to see us. Hor. B. 3. O. 2. Pueros ab ineunte AEtate assuefaciendos esse rei militari et Vitae laboriosae. We walked to Meeting above 2 Miles at Noon. We walked 1/4 of a Mile and staid at one Quintouns an old Irishman, and a friendly cordial Reception we had. The old Man...
15469[Diary entry: 6 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
6. Went to Pohick Church. Mr. Triplet & Mr. Peake & Daughter dined here. Probably Humphrey Peake’s younger daughter, Elizabeth, still a minor in 1774. GW commonly referred to a child of a friend as a “son” or “daughter” while still a minor and as a “Mr.” or “Miss” after the age of about 16. Thus Humphrey Peake’s elder daughter, Ann (Nancy), would be a “Miss” by this time.
15470[Diary entry: 6 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
6. Clear & pleasant in the forenoon but lowering & cold in the Afternoon. Wind Easterly.
154711774. Monday. Novr. 7. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Rice’s of Brookfield. Major Foster came to see us, and gave us an Account of the Proceedings of the Prov incial Congress. Lodged at Hunts in Spencer.
15472From Benjamin Franklin to John Almon, 7 November 1774 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Harvard University Library Dr. Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr. Almon, and sends him a M.S. which he has perus’d and thinks well written so as probably to be acceptable to the Publick at this time. If Mr. Almon should be of the same Opinion, it is at his Service. Addressed: Mr Almon This note and the one from Almon below, Dec. 6, are the only extant communications between BF and...
15473[Diary entry: 7 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
7. Mr. Martin Cockburn & Mr. Geo. Mason Junr. dined here. George Mason, Jr. (1753–1796), was the eldest son of George and Ann Eilbeck Mason of Gunston Hall. He married Elizabeth Mary Ann Barnes Hooe and settled at Lexington in Mason’s Neck.
15474[Diary entry: 7 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
7. Lowering and cold.
15475New York Delegates to the Dutchess County Freeholders, 7 November 1774 (Jay Papers)
When our common Liberties are invaded, our dearest Rights in Danger, and a whole Continent loudly called upon to defend and secure themselves against high handed Oppression: the Confidence reposed in us as Delegates of your respectable County is a distinguished Honour, which excites our most affectionate Esteem and demands our most grateful Acknowledgments. While we lament that our Talents are...
154761774. 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.
15477[Diary entry: 8 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
8. At home all day alone.
15478[Diary entry: 8 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
8. Tolerably pleasant not being so cool.
15479To George Washington from William Milnor, 8 November 1774 (Washington Papers)
by this days post I have enclosed a bill lading to Mr Addams for the goods on board of Capt. George Rowe he sailed from this place on fryday last, & perhap will Arrive nearly as soon as this, you will find every Article in the Barrel No. 5, except the Graplings, I blieve I have Omitted nothing, my Wife has not met with any more Cruels yet, but will as soons as possible fulfill the Compliment...
154801774. Wednesday. Novr. 9. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted at Reeve’s of Sudbury.
15481[Diary entry: 9 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
9. At home all day.
15482[Diary entry: 9 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
9. Cold Wind hard at West or No. West all day.
15483To George Washington from Gilbert Simpson, 9 November 1774 (Washington Papers)
I have sent my son to you. for some money to pay off the men that is at work at the Mill: which they want Clothing and Cannot get any Cloths for the want money. the walls of Mill is done and the Race is not done by Reason for the want Powder by which it Could not be had: and the frame is all got but the Rafters and they are about them now. I expect the House will be done by the 10th of Next...
15484[Diary entry: 10 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
10. At home all day. Doctr. Craik came here in the Evening and stayed all Night.
15485[Diary entry: 10 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
10. Clear, & not quite so cold notwithstanding the Wind kept in the same place but not quite so hard.
15486To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Life, 11 November 1774 (Franklin Papers)
ALS :Historical Society of Pennsylvania My Lord Chancellor finished his Petitions this Evening, but did not hear any of the Exceptions, So that your Exception in the above Cause Stands 9th. in His Lordship’s Paper as before for hearing the next day of Petitions, which in all probability will be on Wednesday next. I am sir Your very humble Servant Whately’s suit was dragging on. This and the...
15487[Diary entry: 11 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
11. At home all day. Mr. Bryan Fairfax came here & stayed all Night.
15488[Diary entry: 11 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
11. Clear, warm and pleasant with but little Wind and that Southerly.
15489[Diary entry: 12 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
12. I went up to George Town To an intended meeting of Trustees for openg. Potomack River. None Met. Returnd home at Night. After inspecting canal works in England, John Ballendine had returned to the Potomac valley in the late summer of 1774 with a plan for opening navigation of the Potomac River “at and above the Lower Falls” to boats that could carry wheat and iron downriver to the ports of...
15490[Diary entry: 12 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
12. Exceeding pleasant, being clear and without wind.
15491[Diary entry: 13 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
13. Went up to Alexandria Church. In the Evening Colo. Blackburn Mr. Lee, & Mr. Richd. Graham came here as a Committee from the Prince Wm. Independ. Compy. Mr. Lee was Philip Richard Francis Lee (died c.1834), son of Squire Richard Lee of Blenheim, Charles County, Md. Philip Richard, a merchant in Dumfries, was a captain in the Prince William Independent Company, which was absorbed into the 3d...
15492[Diary entry: 13 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
13. Clear and pleasant being quite warm.
15493[Diary entry: 14 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
14. At home all day. Those Gentn. Went away after Dinnr.
15494[Diary entry: 14 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
14. Warm and pleasant with but little Wind. Lowering in the Evening.
15495To George Washington from William Crawford, 14 November 1774 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday returd from our Late Expedition against the Shawnees, and I think we may with Propreity Say we have had Great Sucksess as we have maid them Senceable of there Veleny and weekness, and I hop maid peace with them on such a footing as will be Lasting if we make them adhare to the tinner of the agreement which is as follows. First they have to give up all the Prisoners taken ever by...
15496To George Washington from Hanburys & Lloyd, 14 November 1774 (Washington Papers)
We have now to acknowledge receipt of thy ⟨esteemed⟩ favors of 3⟨0⟩ Decr 30 Apr. 1 June & 4 Augst the Contents whereof are duly ⟨notic⟩’d—We observe by the second that our friend J. P. Custis is married we congratulate him ⟨upon illegible sion⟩ & heartily wish him health & happiness. We are sorry to see by thine of 4 Augst that thou art displeas’d at our ⟨su⟩ffering thy Bill on us to John Page...
15497[Diary entry: 15 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
15. At home all day alone.
15498[Diary entry: 15 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
15. A little Rain in the Night & lowering in the forenoon. Clear afterwards.
15499From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 15 November 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 15 Nov. 1774. On 2 Mar. 1775 Fairfax wrote GW that he had received “Your very obliging favor of the 15th of November.”
15500To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Life, 16 November 1774 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania His Lordship has only heard 2 Exceptions this Evening Your Cause[?] therefore Stands now the Seventh. His Lordship sits again next Friday Evening when it may probably come on. I am Sir Your very humble Servant See the preceding document. BF ’s case advanced toward argument at the pace of a lazy snail, and a month later was second in line: Life to BF...