56751[August 1769] (Washington Papers)
Augt. 1st. Set out from Chs. Wests. Dined at Snickers and got to Mr. W[arne]r Washington’s abt. 5 Oclock. Edward Snickers (d. 1791) settled at a site near Buck Marsh Run in Frederick (now Clarke) County, where he later built his home, Springfield. Snickers’ Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains was named after him. Warner Washington was living in Frederick (now Clarke) County, probably on the...
56752[Diary entry: 1 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
Augt. 1st. Set out from Chs. Wests. Dined at Snickers and got to Mr. W[arne]r Washington’s abt. 5 Oclock. Edward Snickers (d. 1791) settled at a site near Buck Marsh Run in Frederick (now Clarke) County, where he later built his home, Springfield. Snickers’ Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains was named after him. Warner Washington was living in Frederick (now Clarke) County, probably on the...
56753[Diary entry: 2 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
2. Remaind there all day. Mr. Washington returnd from Winchester in the Afternoon.
56754[Diary entry: 3 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
3. At Mr. Washington’s all this day also.
56755[Diary entry: 4 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
4. Still at Mr. Washington’s. Mr. Thurston & Lady dining there. Note I was detained this day & yesterday by the Waggon’s which had my Goods in for the springs loosing 2 Hs. After stopping at Mount Vernon in mid-February of 1768, Thruston had attended the March meeting of the Frederick Parish vestry, Frederick County, where he offered to take the vacant rectorship. The vestry, having given...
56756[Diary entry: 5 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
5. Prosecuted our Journey to the springs (by Jacob Hites). Bated at Opeekon and lodged at Joshua Hedges. Jacob Hite, son of Jost Hite, was a resident of Frederick County. In 1772 he became a justice of the peace of newly formed Berkeley County. Hite married Frances Madison Beale, aunt of President James Madison, and moved with his family to South Carolina in 1773, where most were killed by...
56757[Diary entry: 6 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
6. Arrivd at the Springs about One Oclock & dind w. Colo. F[airfa]x.
56758[Diary entry: 7 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
7. Rid out into the Country to seek a good Pasture for my Horses & engagd to send them to one John Higgens’s.
56759[Diary entry: 8 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
8. Sent my Horses to the above place with the Coachman.
56760[Diary entry: 9 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
9. Mr. Barcley dined with us—& Mr. Maze. John Barclay was an Anglican clergyman who came to Virginia by 1756 and was for a brief time in charge of Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County. Some time before 12 Oct. 1760 he was appointed to All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, Md., and in 1763 to St. Luke’s Parish, Queen Anne County, Md. In 1761 Barclay was named one of the commissioners to run...
56761[Diary entry: 10 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
10. Mr. Barcley dined with us again as did Mr. Power and Mr. Geo. Thornton. George Thornton, of Spotsylvania County, one of Charles Washington’s brothers-in-law, married Mary Alexander in 1773. A prominent businessman in Fredericksburg for many years, he was a partner about 1772–74 with William Triplett of King George County in two stores, one in Fredericksburg and one in nearby Falmouth....
56762[Diary entry: 11 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
11. Lord Fairfax & Colo. Geo. Fairfax dined with us.
56763[Diary entry: 12 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
12. Mr. Barclay dined with us this day also.
56764[Diary entry: 13 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
13. We dined with Lord Fairfax.
56765[Diary entry: 14 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
14. Colo. Loyd, Mr. Cadwallader & Lady, Mrs. Dalton & Daughter & Miss Terrett dind with us. Col. Edward Lloyd III (1711-1770) was of a prominent Maryland family and one of a long line of Edward Lloyds of Wye House, Talbot County, Md. He was married in 1739 to Anne Rousby of Patuxent, Md. He had been a member of the Maryland General Assembly, a member of the council, and receiver general of the...
56766[Diary entry: 15 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
15. Had my Horses brought in to carry Colo. Loyd as far as Hedges on his return home & rid with him as far as Sleepy Creek. Returnd to Dinner & had Mr. Barclay & a Mr. Brown to dine with me.
56767[Diary entry: 16 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
16. Horses returnd from carrying Colo. Loyd. Mr. Barclay—Mr. Goldsbury Mr. Hardwick, Mr. Jno. Lewis & Mr. Wn. Washington Junr. dined here. mr. goldsbury : probably one of the brothers of John Barclay’s wife, Rachel Goldsborough Barclay. Her three brothers were Nicholas, Thomas, and Foster Goldsborough ( hanson George A. Hanson. Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland: Notes Illustrative of the...
56768[Diary entry: 17 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
17. Mr. Jno. Lewis & W. Washington dind here. We drank Tea with My Lord.
56769[Diary entry: 18 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
18. Mr. Barclay, Mr. Wodrow & Mr. Wood dined here. My Lord the two Colo. Fx’s & others drank Tea here. mr. wodrow : probably either Alexander or Andrew Wodrow. Alexander Wodrow served as provisioner of the garrison at Fort Cumberland during the French and Indian War and voted for GW in the Frederick County burgesses election of 1758. In 1774 he served on the committee of safety of King George...
56770[Diary entry: 19 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
19. Rid with Mrs. Washington & others to the Cacapehon Mountain—to see the prospect from thence. Mr. Barclay, Mr. Thruston & Mr. Power dined with us.
56771[Diary entry: 20 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
20. Went to Church in the fore and Afternoon. Mr. Jno. Lewis dind here. Lord Fairfax the two Colo. Fairfaxs & others drank Tea here.
56772[Diary entry: 21 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
21. Mr. Maze & Lady, Mr. Sebastian, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Allison dind here. Lord Fairfax &ca. drank Tea here. Rev. Benjamin Sebastian (c.1745–1834) was rector of Frederick Parish in Frederick County, 1766–67 and of St. Stephen’s Parish in Northumberland County, 1767–77. He removed to Maryland and then to Kentucky, where he practiced law and served as a judge during the 1790s ( goodwin Edward Lewis...
56773[Diary entry: 22 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
22. Mr. Jno. Lewis dined here.
56774[Diary entry: 23 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
23. Dined alone—Patcy unwell. Patsy had “found little benefit” from taking the waters, but the Washingtons had decided to continue the experiment for another week or two in order to be sure there was no help for her here. The springs at this time were crowded with people from all walks of life seeking to restore their health. The waters, GW wrote to a friend, “are applied . . . in all cases,...
56775[Diary entry: 24 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
24. Rid to Cacapeon with Lord Fairfax, the 2 Colo. Fairfaxs, Mr. Kimble Mrs. Washington & Patcy Custis. mr. kimble : possibly Peter Kemble (1704–1789), president of the royal council of New Jersey.
56776[Diary entry: 25 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
25. Dined here Mr. Jno. Lewis and Mr. Flint. Mr. Flint may be John, John Jr., or Thomas Flint of Frederick County, Md. John Flint was registrar of Prince George’s Parish, and Thomas Flint kept a school in Frederick County. A Pennsylvania traveler recorded having been to “Flints on Potomak abot. 12 Miles above Fort Frederick, civil people” ( kenny John W. Jordan, ed. “Journal of James Kenny,...
56777[Diary entry: 26 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
26. Dined alone.
56778[Diary entry: 27 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
27. Dined with Lord Fairfax & drank Tea there also.
56779[Diary entry: 28 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
28. Lord Fairfax, Colo. R. Fairfax, Mr. Allan, Mr. Meldrum & Colo. Stephen dined here. Rev. William Meldrum, licensed by the bishop of London to preach in Virginia in 1756, served as rector of Frederick Parish in Frederick County for a time before 1765.
56780[Diary entry: 29 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
29. Dined alone.