6851[Diary entry: 5 March 1768] (Washington Papers)
5. Deliverd another Load of 517½ Bushls. of the Neck Wheat to the above ship and returnd the same day. Finishd cutting down Corn Stocks at all my Plantations.
6852[Diary entry: 6 March 1768] (Washington Papers)
6. Something better—Doctr. still here—& Mr. Ramsay came down to see me.
6853[Diary entry: 6 March 1768] (Washington Papers)
6. Ground & snow hard froze. Clear, Wind Northwardly.
6854[Diary entry: 7 March 1768] (Washington Papers)
7. Rather better. Doctr. went home after breakfast. Mr. Ramsay staid to Dinner.
6855[Diary entry: 7 March 1768] (Washington Papers)
7. Clear & cool, wind still Northwardly.
6856On the Candidacy of Barlow Trecothick, 8 March 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser , December 5–12, 1768; draft in American Philosophical Society. The essay as published in the Pennsylvania Chronicle purports to be a reprint from the London Gazetteer ; Crane presents strong presumptive evidence, however, that it was submitted in London but did not appear there ( Letters to the Press , p. 113). The draft in...
6857[Diary entry: 8 March 1768] (Washington Papers)
8. Mending fast. Colo. Thos. Moore calld here on his way from Alexa. Home, but made no stay. Colo. Fairfax, & Mr. Gilbt. Campbell (Comptroller) Dined here. Moore, who was heavily indebted to the estate of the late Speaker of the House of Burgesses, John Robinson (d. 1766) of King and Queen County, was now trying to renew his bond to GW for his debt to the Custis estate, which GW had been...
6858[Diary entry: 8 March 1768] (Washington Papers)
8. Frosty Morning—but clear & pleast. day. Wind Southwardly.
6859From Benjamin Franklin to [John Canton], 9 March 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : The Royal Society Dr. Priestly left these Specimens of the Circles with me to be produc’d to the Society. As I cannot be there this Evening, when I understand the Paper is to be read, I inclose them to you. Those that look at them should be caution’d not to rub them, lest they should be defac’d before the Company have all had a Sight of them. I am, Yours &c. The letter is among the...
6860[Diary entry: 9 March 1768] (Washington Papers)
9. Still mending. At home alone.