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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54451 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vaughan, Benjamin | From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 5 March … | 1785-03-05 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received yesterday your kind Letter of the 23d past, with... |
| 54452 | Butré (Butret), Charles de | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Charles de Butré, with … | 1785-03-08 | ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Je viens de lire avec un attendrissement inexprimable... |
| 54453 | Jay, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay: Two Letters, 8 … | 1785-03-08 | (I) LS : Library of Congress; AL (draft) Columbia University Library; copy: National Archives;... |
| 54454 | Manini, Lorenzo | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Lorenzo Manini, 8 March 1785 | 1785-03-08 | ALS : American Philosophical Society J’ai eté tres sensible à l’honneur de vos bontés, Monsieur,... |
| 54455 | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Vergennes, 8 March 1785 | 1785-03-08 | L (draft): Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères J’ai communiqué M. a M. le Mal. de... |
| 54456 | Jay, John | American Commissioners | John Jay to the American Commissioners, 11 March 1785 | 1785-03-11 | LS : National Archives, Massachusetts Historical Society; AL (draft): National Archives; copies:... |
| 54457 | American Commissioners | Thulemeier, Friedrich Wilhelm von | The American Commissioners to Thulemeier, 14 March 1785 | 1785-03-14 | Copy: National Archives; AL (draft): Library of Congress We had the honour of receiving your... |
| 54458 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vaughan, Benjamin | From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March … | 1785-03-14 | ALS (draft), press copy of L , and transcript: Library of Congress Among the Pamphlets you lately... |
| 54459 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, 15 March 1785 | 1785-03-15 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Inclosed Your Excellency will find a Letter from a Canadian... |
| 54460 | Vaughan, Benjamin | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 15 March … | 1785-03-15 | ALS : American Philosophical Society In reply to your favor of the 5th: instt. I send you the... |
| 54461 | Editorial Note | Editorial note . During the spring of 1748 GW undertook a journey that introduced him for the... | |||
| 54462 | Washington, George | A Journal of my Journey over the Mountains began Fryday … | ≈1748-03-11 | Fryday March 11th. 1747/8. Began my Journey in Company with George Fairfax Esqr.; we travell’d... | |
| 54463 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 11 March 1748] | 1748-03-11 | Fryday March 11th. 1747/8. Began my Journey in Company with George Fairfax Esqr.; we travell’d... | |
| 54464 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 12 March 1748] | 1748-03-12 | Saturday March 12th. This Morning Mr. James Genn the surveyor came to us. We travel’d over the... | |
| 54465 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 13 March 1748] | 1748-03-13 | Sunday March 13. Rode to his Lordships Quarter about 4 Miles higher up the River we went through... | |
| 54466 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 14 March 1748] | 1748-03-14 | Monday 14th. We sent our Baggage to Capt. Hites (near Frederick Town) went ourselves down the... | |
| 54467 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 15 March 1748] | 1748-03-15 | Tuesday 15th. We set out early with Intent to Run round the sd. Land but being taken in a Rain &... | |
| 54468 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 16 March 1748] | 1748-03-16 | Wednesday 16th. We set out early & finish’d about one oClock & then Travell’d up to Frederick... | |
| 54469 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 17 March 1748] | 1748-03-17 | Thursday 17th. Rain’d till Ten oClock & then clearing we reached as far as Major Campbells one of... | |
| 54470 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 18 March 1748] | 1748-03-18 | Fryday 18th. We Travell’d up about 35 Miles to Thomas Barwicks on Potomack where we found the... | |
| 54471 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 20 March 1748] | 1748-03-20 | Sunday 20th. Finding the River not much abated we in the Evening Swam our horses over & carried... | |
| 54472 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 21 March 1748] | 1748-03-21 | Monday 21st. We went over in a Canoe & Travell’d up Maryland side all the Day in a Continued Rain... | |
| 54473 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 22 March 1748] | 1748-03-22 | Tuesday 22d. Continued Rain and the Freshes kept us at Cresaps. | |
| 54474 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 23 March 1748] | 1748-03-23 | Wednesday 23d. Rain’d till about two oClock & Clear’d when we were agreeably surpris’d at the... | |
| 54475 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 25 March 1748] | 1748-03-25 | Fryday 25th. 1748. Nothing Remarkable on thursday but only being with the Indians all day so... | |
| 54476 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 26 March 1748] | 1748-03-26 | Saterday 26. Travelld up the Creek to Solomon Hedges Esqr. one of his Majestys Justices of the... | |
| 54477 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 27 March 1748] | 1748-03-27 | Sunday 27th. Travell’d over to the South Branch (attended with the Esqr.) to Henry Vanmetriss in... | |
| 54478 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 28 March 1748] | 1748-03-28 | Monday 28th. Travell’d up the Branch about 30 Miles to Mr. James Rutlidge’s Horse Jockey & about... | |
| 54479 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 29 March 1748] | 1748-03-29 | Tuesday 29th. This Morning went out & Survey’d five Hundred Acres of Land & went down to one... | |
| 54480 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 30 March 1748] | 1748-03-30 | Wednesday 30th. This Morning began our Intended Business of Laying of Lots. We began at the... | |
| 54481 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 31 March 1748] | 1748-03-31 | Thursday 31st. Early this Morning one of our Men went out with the Gun & soon Returnd with two... | |
| 54482 | Washington, George | [April 1748] | ≈1748-04-01 | Fryday April the 1st. 1748. This Morning Shot twice at Wild Turkies but killd none. Run of three... | |
| 54483 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 1 April 1748] | 1748-04-01 | Fryday April the 1st. 1748. This Morning Shot twice at Wild Turkies but killd none. Run of three... | |
| 54484 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 2 April 1748] | 1748-04-02 | Saterday April 2d. Last Night was a blowing & Rainy night. Our Straw catch’d a Fire that we were... | |
| 54485 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 3 April 1748] | 1748-04-03 | Sunday 3d. Last Night was a much more blostering night than the former. We had our Tent Carried... | |
| 54486 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 4 April 1748] | 1748-04-04 | Monday 4th. This morning Mr. Fairfax left us with Intent to go down to the Mouth of the Branch.... | |
| 54487 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 5 April 1748] | 1748-04-05 | Tuesday 5th. We went out & did 4 Lots. We were attended by the same Company of People that we had... | |
| 54488 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 6 April 1748] | 1748-04-06 | Wednesday 6th. Last Night was so Intolerably smoaky that we were obliged all hands to leave the... | |
| 54489 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 7 April 1748] | 1748-04-07 | Thursday 7th. Rain’d Successively all Last Night. This Morning one of our men Killed a Wild Turky... | |
| 54490 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 8 April 1748] | 1748-04-08 | Fryday 8th. We breakfasted at Casseys & Rode down to Vanmetris’s to get all our Company together... | |
| 54491 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 9 April 1748] | 1748-04-09 | Saterday 9th. Set the Surveyors to work whilst Mr. Fairfax & myself stayed at the Tent our... | |
| 54492 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 10 April 1748] | 1748-04-10 | Sunday 10th. We took our farewell of the Branch & travelld over Hills and Mountains to 1 Coddys... | |
| 54493 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 11 April 1748] | 1748-04-11 | Monday 11th. We Travell’d from Coddys down to Frederick Town where we Reached about 12 oClock. We... | |
| 54494 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 12 April 1748] | 1748-04-12 | Tuesday 12th. We set of from Capt. Hites in order to go over Wms. Gap about 20 Miles and after... | |
| 54495 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 13 April 1748] | 1748-04-13 | Wednesday the 13th. of April 1748. Mr. Fairfax got safe home and I myself safe to my Brothers... | |
| 54496 | Note on the Digital Edition of This Chapter | This diary chapter includes JPEG images of print edition pages 38–117, the facsimiles of the... | |||
| 54497 | Editorial Note | GW’s older half brother Lawrence had been in poor health during the decade following the British... | |||
| 54498 | Biographical Data | Information on the persons mentioned by GW during his stay on the island is in most instances... | |||
| 54499 | The Washingtons in Barbados | The arrival at Bridgetown, on Carlisle Bay, is not well documented because pages are missing from... | |||
| 54500 | The Manuscript | The Barbados diary had deteriorated seriously before it was silked and mounted at the Library of... |