7281[Diary entry: 15 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
15. Went over again & drove back by Rain about One Oclock, which continued all the Afternoon.
7282[Diary entry: 15 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
15. Cloudy Morning & drizling & rainy Afternoon—with wind westwardly. Note this Rain continued slow till some time in the Night and with but little Wind.
7283[Diary entry: 15 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
15. Began cuttg. the Wheat next to it on the Riverside. Abt. One Oclock was stopd by Rain which continued the whole afternoon.
7284To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 15 July 1768 (Washington Papers)
I have just Time to put a Cover over The Enclosed, & to add to the Informa[tio]n I suppose Mastr Custis himself has given You, that He has enjoy’d perfect Health ever since You left Him, exceptg two or three Days that He complain’d of a Pain in his Stomach, which I at first took for the Cholic, but since think it more likely that it might be owing to Worms. As it easily went off, by two or...
7285[Diary entry: 16 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
16. Went by Muddy hole & Doeg Run to the Vestry at Pohick Church. Stayd there till half after 3 Oclock & only 4 Members coming returned by Captn. McCartys & dined there. By Virginia law, the presence of at least 7 of the 12 vestrymen was necessary to form a quorum ( hening William Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session...
7286[Diary entry: 16 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
16. Clear & cool in the forenoon with thunder abt. 11 Oclock. Abt. 2 Oclock a black Cloud with Wind and Rain from the No. West & at 5 a Secd. Cloud from the same Quarter.
7287[Diary entry: 16 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
16. Finishd this cut, & began the one next to the House. This day it also Raind & stopd the Harvest abt. an hour or two.
7288[Diary entry: 17 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
17. At home all day.
7289[Diary entry: 17 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
17. Wind Westwardly and little of it. Day moderate.
7290[Diary entry: 17 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
17. Dischargd three Cradlers keepg. only Jonathan Palmer & Eliab Roberts. The three discharged cradlers, each of whom was paid 5s. per day, were David Kinsey, paid for 2 days of work; William Black, for 1¾ days; and Robert Langley, for 6 days ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 274).
7291[Diary entry: 18 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
18. In the Neck with my People Harvesting.
7292[Diary entry: 18 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
18. Warm & but little Wind. Some appearance of Rain—but none fell.
7293[Diary entry: 18 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
18. Nine Cradlers at work including the two white men.
7294[Diary entry: 19 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
19. In Ditto with Ditto. Mr. Richd. Graham came here in the afternoon. Richard Graham (d. 1796) was a Scottish merchant of Dumfries, Prince William County, who was heavily involved in western lands. In 1757 he married Jane Brent (b. 1738), the youngest daughter of Col. George Brent (d. 1778).
7295[Diary entry: 19 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
19. Clear and very warm with a small breeze from the Southward.
7296From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 20 July 1768: phonetic spelling and transcription (Franklin Papers)
Transcribed from ALS (in phonetic spelling): American Philosophical Society Many writers, from the monk Orm in the early thirteenth century to George Bernard Shaw in the early twentieth, have experimented with methods of phonetic spelling. It was perhaps natural that Franklin, with his long exposure to the printed word and his varied and practical interests, should have been drawn into this...
7297Phonetic alphabet, with Franklin’s comments, [20 July? 1768] (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society The document that follows was in the papers of Mary Stevenson Hewson. They included many letters of hers to Franklin that were returned to her after his death, and they came down through her descendants to their eventual resting place in the American Philosophical Society. The presence among them of an undated document does not, of course, indicate that it...
7298[Diary entry: 20 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
20. In Ditto with Do. in the Forenoon. In the Afternoon went with them to cut the Wheat at Doeg Run.
7299[Diary entry: 20 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
20. Very warm with but little Wind and that Southwardly. Clear.
7300[Diary entry: 20 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
20th. About 11 Oclock finished Harvesting the Wheat in the Neck; that is cutting it down, & securing it shocks. In the whole, allowing for the time lost by Rain we were six days doing it. About 2 Oclock in the Afternoon began to cut the Field at Doeg Run containing 150 Acres with 10 Cradlers—3 of them sorry hands.
7301To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 20 July 1768 (Washington Papers)
I have received Your favor of the 20th and am the more confirmed in the Opinion I had of Doctor Savage’s being fully persuaded that his Wife really & sincerely desires the Relinquishment of the Bond, and therefore am not at all surprised that he should in such case desire it also. The Week before the last she sent to me desiring that I would make a demand for the money, and also that I would...
7302From George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, 20 July 1768 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Bryan Fairfax, 20 July 1768. On 20 July Fairfax wrote to GW : “I have received Your favor of the 20th.”
7303[Diary entry: 21 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
21. Went to the Harvest Field at Ditto.
7304[Diary entry: 21 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
21. Clear & Exceeding hot till abt. 10 Oclock—then a little cooler by the Wind Rising from the Southward. Note—last Night & the Night before makes but the 4 or 5th. warm Night we have had this year.
7305[Diary entry: 21 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
21. Finishd one quarter of the above field abt. 2 Oclock. Note this cut was, in places, greatly injured by the Rust.
7306[Diary entry: 22 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
22. Rid to Ditto in the forenoon with my Wife & Patcy Custis.
7307[Diary entry: 22 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
22d. Clear & very warm—with the Wind Southwardly. Last Night warm.
7308[Diary entry: 22 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
22. About 2 Oclock finishd another Cut in this field being of the same Size of the last. This was also injured by Rust—as well as by the frosts.
7309[Diary entry: 23 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
23. Rid to Ditto in the forenoon—where I met with one Russel, a Tenant of mine upon the Land I bought of Carters Estate, coming down to see upon what terms he coud get the Land. George Russell was a tenant on land in Fauquier County formerly owned by the late George Carter (see main entries for 10 and 17 March 1769).
7310[Diary entry: 23 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
23. Clear & very warm, with but little Wind & that variable. Hot Night again.