7321[Diary entry: 26 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
26. Wind at No. West & cool & clear.
7322[Diary entry: 26 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
26. Began to cut my Timothy Meadow. GW discharged Eliab Roberts today, paying him £5 13s. ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 277).
7323[Diary entry: 27 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
27. Rid to the Meadow again. Vale. Crawford & his Br. Wm. both came this Afternoon.
7324[Diary entry: 27 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
27. Wind Westwardly, clear, & somethg. warmer.
7325From Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 28 July 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Extract reprinted from The American Museum, or, Universal Magazine , VIII (July, 1790), 120. I greatly approve the epithet, which you give in your letter of the 8th of June, to the new method of treating the small-pox, which you call the tonic or bracing method. I will take occasion from it, to mention a practice to which I have accustomed myself. You know the cold bath has long been in vogue...
7326From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, 28 July 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum I received your obliging Letter of the 10th. of May, with the most acceptable Present of your Physiocratie , which I have read with great Pleasure, and received from it a great deal of Instruction. There is such a Freedom from local and national Prejudices and Partialities, so much Benevolence to Mankind in general, so much Goodness mixt with the...
7327[Diary entry: 28 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
28. Went to the Meadow with the above two.
7328[Diary entry: 28 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
28. Clear & something warmer still. Wind Southerly.
7329[Diary entry: 29 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
29. But little Wind—that Southwardly—very Warm. Rid to the Meadow in the Afternn. Writg. in the Fore.
7330[Diary entry: 29 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
29. But little wind & that Southwardly. Very warm.
7331[Diary entry: 30 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
30. Rid into the Neck and from thence to Doeg Run where we were Haymakg. Colo. Carlyle & Lady came last N. & went to Day.
7332[Diary entry: 30 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
30. Very little Wind but very hot with appearances of Rain tho none fell.
7333[Diary entry: 30 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
30. Finished Do. & got into Stacks without damage. About the 27 and 28 Sowed some Turnep Seed in Corn Ground at Morris’s—that is at Doeg Run Plann. Memm. On the 30th. of this Month I agreed with Jonathan Palmer to come and Work with my Carpenters; either at their Trade—Cowpering—or, in short at any thing that he may be set about—In consideration of which, I am to pay him £40 pr. Ann. allow him...
7334To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 30 July 1768 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote to You last I have received a Letter from Dr Savage wherein he says that his Wife acknowledges that she had once in a discontented Mood expressed a Dislike to parting with the Bond, but that she fully convinced me at our last meeting of her earnest desire to relinquish it: At the same time Mrs Savage also wrote to me begging a thousand pardons of You & me for the trouble she had...
7335[Diary entry: 31 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
31. Went to Alexa. Church. Dind at Colo. Carlyles & returnd in the Afternoon. The Fairfax vestry decided 27 Nov. 1766 to replace the parish’s two church buildings with new brick structures, one near Four Mile Run called Falls Church, and one at Alexandria, later called Christ Church. The vestry advertised for bids and on 1 Jan. 1767 agreed with James Parsons (d. 1785) to build the church at...
7336[Diary entry: 31 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
31. Very warm, with Rain flying abt. but none fell with us. Wind fresh from the southward in the Afternoon.
7337From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 31 July 1768 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 15th Inst. covering Master Custis’s Letter to his Mother came to hand a few days after date.—In looking over the Books I find Cicero: De Officies and send it, as also his own Grammer which he forgot—a Livy I cannot find. —If the pain which he complained of in his stomach should return, with any other Symptoms of worms, it might be very proper for Doctr. Mercer to prescribe...
7338Thomas Hutchinson to ——, August 1768 (Franklin Papers)
It is very necessary other information should be had in England of the present state of the commissioners of the customs than what common fame will bring to you or what you will receive from most of the letters which go from hence, people in general being prejudiced by many false reports and misrepresentations concerning them. Seven eighths of the people of the country suppose the board itself...
7339[August 1768] (Washington Papers)
Aug. 1st. Went to Belvoir & dined. Returnd in the Afternoon. 2. Rid to the Mill, Doeg Run, and Muddy hole. Miss Manly dind here & Mr. Alexr. came in the Evening. miss manly : probably Mary (Molly) Manley, eldest daughter of Harrison and Margaret Manley. 3. Mr. Alexander & Miss Manly went away. Rid to the Mill & Muddy hole. 4. Went a fox hunting in the Neck with Lund Washington & Mr. Thos....
7340Remarks—of the—Weather [August 1768] (Washington Papers)
Augt. 1. But little Wind & yet not very warm. 2. Clear & warm. Wind Eastwardly. 3. Wind Eastwardly—with appearances of Rain but none fell. 4. But little Wind with great appearance of a settled Rain after noon tho not enough fell to make the House eves run. 5. Very warm with the wind Southwardly. 6. Exceeding hot—& still till the Evening, then a slight breeze from the Southward. 7. Very Warm,...
7341Cash Accounts, August 1768 (Washington Papers)
Cash Augt 20— To Cash of Far[re]l Littleton for Mr Jno. Washington £10. 0. 0 To Ditto won at Cards 0. 3. 9 Contra Augt 1— By Captn [Thomas] Dent for Freight of a Butt of Madeira Wine qty 145 Gals. 2.0.0 Duty to the Crown £4 Sterg 5.0.0 7. 0. 0 [5] By Charity 6/—Exps. at Cameron 11/6 0.17. 6 By Messrs Purdie and Dixon’s Acct 2. 5. 0 By mendg a pr of gold Button’s 0. 2. 6 By Jonathan Palmer...
7342Observations—in—August [1768] (Washington Papers)
Augt. 1st. Began to tread out Wheat at the Mill. Also began to draw it in, in the Neck. 2. Began to draw it in (that is to carry it from the field on this side the Run over to the Barn) with only my Ox Cart at Doeg R. 5. Began to cut my Timothy Seed—there. Getting Wheat in at Muddy hole. 6. The Hound Bitch Lady brought four Puppys that is 3 dogs and a bitch distinguished by the following...
7343[Diary entry: 1 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
Aug. 1st. Went to Belvoir & dined. Returnd in the Afternoon.
7344[Diary entry: 1 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
Augt. 1. But little Wind & yet not very warm.
7345[Diary entry: 1 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
Augt. 1st. Began to tread out Wheat at the Mill. Also began to draw it in, in the Neck.
7346[Diary entry: 2 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
2. Rid to the Mill, Doeg Run, and Muddy hole. Miss Manly dind here & Mr. Alexr. came in the Evening. miss manly : probably Mary (Molly) Manley, eldest daughter of Harrison and Margaret Manley.
7347[Diary entry: 2 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
2. Clear & warm. Wind Eastwardly.
7348[Diary entry: 2 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
2. Began to draw it in (that is to carry it from the field on this side the Run over to the Barn) with only my Ox Cart at Doeg R.
7349To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 2 August 1768 (Washington Papers)
I do not recollect that Mastr Custis has had any Return of the Pain in his Stomach, which I told You I suspected to be occasioned by Worms: but as it is but too probable that He may have a little of the Ague & Fever in This or the next Month, this Complaint it is not unlikely, may return; and if it does, in any considerable Degree, Dr Mercer shall be consulted. Mastr Custis is a Boy of so...
7350To Benjamin Franklin from Anthony Todd, 3 August 1768: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society [August 3, 1768. An invitation to dine at 3:45 at the King’s Arms, on a buck provided by the Postmaster General (Lord Le Despencer or Lord Sandwich).] For Anthony Todd, a prominent official in the Post Office and later BF ’s associate in the Grand Ohio or Walpole Company, see above, X , 217 n.
7351[Diary entry: 3 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
3. Mr. Alexander & Miss Manly went away. Rid to the Mill & Muddy hole.
7352[Diary entry: 3 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
3. Wind Eastwardly—with appearances of Rain but none fell.
7353[Diary entry: 4 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
4. Went a fox hunting in the Neck with Lund Washington & Mr. Thos. Triplet. Started nothing.
7354[Diary entry: 4 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
4. But little Wind with great appearance of a settled Rain after noon tho not enough fell to make the House eves run.
7355[Diary entry: 5 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
5. Went by Muddy hole—the Mill—& Doeg Run Plantations to a Race at Cameron. Returnd in the Evening. Cameron was the name of the neighborhood which began at the junction of several major roads leading into Alexandria, between one and two miles west of town, and thence extending several miles west along Cameron Run, the stream which fed into Hunting Creek. In GW’s lifetime Cameron lent its name...
7356[Diary entry: 5 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
5. Very warm with the wind Southwardly.
7357[Diary entry: 5 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
5. Began to cut my Timothy Seed—there. Getting Wheat in at Muddy hole.
7358From George Washington to Robert Stewart, 5 August 1768 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Robert Stewart, 5 Aug. 1768. On 25 Jan. 1769 Stewart wrote to GW : “I had the immense pleasure to receive both your Affectionate and most acceptable Favors of the 5th August via Barbados and of the 1st Novemr.”
7359[Diary entry: 6 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
6. At home all day.
7360[Diary entry: 6 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
6. Exceeding hot—& still till the Evening, then a slight breeze from the Southward.
7361[Diary entry: 6 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
6. The Hound Bitch Lady brought four Puppys that is 3 dogs and a bitch distinguished by the following Names—viz. that with the most black Spots Vulcan—the other black spotted Dog Searcher—the Red spotted Dog Rover—and the red spotted bitch Sweetlips.
7362[Diary entry: 7 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
7. Ditto—Ditto.
7363[Diary entry: 7 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
7. Very Warm, Wind Southwardly. Abt. 3 Oclock a slight Shower here & better at the Mill & Doeg Run—to the No. Wt. & Southward the appearance of a great deal of Rain.
7364[Diary entry: 8 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
8. Went a fox hunting but Started nothing. Visited Plantation’s in the Neck & Mill.
7365[Diary entry: 8 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
8. Cloudy Morning, with Showers in difft. places but none here. Wind Southwardly.
7366[Diary entry: 8 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
8. Sowed Turnep Seed at home—in the Neck and at Muddy hole Plann. Began to Sow Wheat at the Mill & at Doeg Run.
7367From Benjamin Franklin to John Alleyne, 9 August 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society This well known letter was apparently first published in The Gentleman’s Magazine , LIX (1789), 384–5; the printed version differs substantially from the draft in only a few passages, noted below. Little is known about John Alleyne: he was the son of Thomas Alleyne of Queen Street, Westminster, was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1767, married Nancy...
7368From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 9 August 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have been in the Country for a few Days, and calling here this Morning I learn that this Ship, Capt. Ross, is to sail today for Philadelphia. I have nothing material to add to my last, but send this Line merely to let you know that I am extremely well, Thanks to God. Mr. Coleman is so far recovered that he thinks to return in Capt. Falkener, who sails...
7369[Diary entry: 9 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
9. At home all day.
7370[Diary entry: 9 August 1768] (Washington Papers)
9. Cloudy, with sometimes a mist till abt. One clock—after which two or three smart Showers for a few Minutes from the S.W.