6691[Diary entry: 16 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
16. Finishd my Smiths Shop—that is the Carpenters work of it.
6692[Diary entry: 17 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
17. At Home with Mr. Dick &ca.
6693[Diary entry: 17 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
17. Clear and pleasant. Wind So. West and West. Hard frost.
6694To Benjamin Franklin from Eleanor Morris, 18 January 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I make bold hoping you will Excuse me my Cousins joyning me once more to Congratulate you on that Happy Day which we kept very joyfully for we had a Plumpuding for Dinner and the Children and we Drank your Health in tea in the Afternoon which Happy Day I may never live to see again but hope God will be Pleased to Continue Health and Happiness to your Self...
6695[Diary entry: 18 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
18. Went to Court & sold Colo. Colvils Ld. Returnd again at Night. As an executor for Thomas Colvill’s estate, GW signed an advertisement in Rind’s Virginia Gazette (24 Dec. 1767) announcing that “upwards of six hundred acres of valuable land . . . will be sold to the highest bidder, at the court-house of Fairfax county, on the 3d Monday in next month (being court day).” The high bidder was...
6696[Diary entry: 18 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
18. Still & cloudy. Very like to Snow but broke away abt. Sun Set. Cold.
6697[Diary entry: 18 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
18. Carpenters went to Saw Plank at Doeg Run for finishing the Barn there. Will put new girders into my Mill where they had Sunk.
6698Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence to Richard Jackson and Benjamin Franklin, 19 January 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania, Met at Philadelphia, on the 14th of October, A.D. 1767, and Continued by Adjournments (Philadelphia, 1768), pp. 31–2. By Order of the House we inclose you Copies of a Letter from his Excellency General Gage, a Message from the Governor to the Assembly, and their Answer, and the Examination of...
6699[Diary entry: 19 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
19. Went to Belvoir with Mr. Dick, my Bror. &ca.
6700[Diary entry: 19 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
19. Clear and pleast. Morning. Afternoon Raw & cold.
6701[Diary entry: 19 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
19. Mike, Tom, & Sam went abt. the Overseers House at Muddy hole.
6702[Diary entry: 20 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
20. Returnd from Do. by the Mill Doeg Run and Muddy hole.
6703[Diary entry: 20 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
20. Clear, still, & warm. Thawd a great deal.
6704[Diary entry: 20 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
20. Plantations chiefly employd in getting out Wheat.
6705To Benjamin Franklin from Deborah Franklin, [21–22 January 1768] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society yister day I had the pleshuer to reseve yours Dated November the 17 I had not hearde one worde abought you senes the later end of Auguste which was neare five munthes but I shall not dwell on that at this time. You reseded I hope all our letters wrote in September and ocktober and those from Mr. Bache and Salley and mine all so and I thinke you was told...
6706To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 21 January 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Since the New-Year I wrote you per Capt. Farquhar in a Merchantman: This being the first Packet we have had this three Months. I have very little extraordinary to inform you of, further than my last. Only I continue to creep along Slowly. You will see I have altered the Day of my Paper back to Monday, and the Hartford Rider is suppress’d. The Commissioners...
6707To Benjamin Franklin from George Whitefield, 21 January 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library When will it suit you to have another interview? The College affair lies dormant. For above a week I have been dethroned by a violent cold and hoarsness. Who would but work and speak for God while it is day? The night of sickness and death cometh when no man can work. Through rich grace I can sing “O Death where is thy sting”-but only through Jesus of...
6708[Diary entry: 21 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
21. Surveyd the Water courses of my Mt. Vernon Tract of Land—taking advant. of the Ice. The freezing over of the Potomac River and Little Hunting Creek enabled GW to survey their shorelines on this day more easily than he usually could, “the ice permitting him to work from the water at will, which greatly simplified the calculating” ( Fitzpatrick, Diaries John C. Fitzpatrick, ed. The Diaries...
6709[Diary entry: 21 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
21. Very warm and Still. Snow dissolving fast.
6710To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 22 January 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you Yesterday, when I acquainted you that I had not receiv’d any Letters from you by the Pacquet, the Bag being either lost or not forwarded by the last Post, but he has since return’d and I have this Moment the Pleasure of receiving yours of Octr. 9. and Novr. 13; the last enclos’d in a Cover dated Novr. 17. I have but just Time to mention this,...
6711[Diary entry: 22 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
22. Fox hunting with Captn. Posey, started but catchd nothing.
6712[Diary entry: 22 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
22. Warm, still, and clear again. Snow almost gone.
6713[Diary entry: 22 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
22. Davy, George, Jupiter and Ned, finishd Sawing at Doeg Run & Joind Mike &ca. abt. Overseers House at Muddy hole. GW rented Davy, a carpenter, from Lund Washington for several years ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 297 ).
6714[Diary entry: 23 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
23. Rid to Muddy hole & directed paths to be cut for Fox hunting.
6715[Diary entry: 23 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
23. No Frost last Night. Warm, & clear in the forenoon. Cloudy with some Rain in the Afternoon—afterwards clear again. Ice broke in the River.
6716From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Hopkinson, 24 January 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Associates of the Late Rev. Dr. Bray I acquainted you in a late Letter that the Associates of Dr. Bray requested that you and Mr. E. Duffield, with my self, would purchase some Estate for them, the Profits of which might hereafter be apply’d to the Support of the Negro School; and I desir’d you would as soon as possible make such Purchase to the Amt. of £200 Sterling Value, so much being...
6717[Diary entry: 24 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
24. Rid up to Toulston in order to Fox hunt it. toulston : Towlston Grange on Difficult Run, home of Bryan Fairfax.
6718[Diary entry: 24 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
24. Lowering Morning, but very fine & Warm till 7 in the Afternoon, when the Wind shifted to No. East from So.
6719[Diary entry: 25 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
25. Confind by Rain with Mr. Fairfax & Mr. Alexander.
6720[Diary entry: 25 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
25. Drizling & Raing. all day. Wind—No. Et.