7591From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 20 October 1768 (Washington Papers)
This Letter will be delivered to you by Jacky Custis, who has been detained from School longer than was intended, owing first to his own ill health, and then to his Mamma’s; who did not care to part with him till she had got the better of an Indisposition which confined her some days. He now promises to stick close to his Book, and endeavour by diligent study to recover his lost time—he will...
7592Reply to Thomas Crowley, 21 October 1768 (Franklin Papers)
AD : British Museum; printed in The Public Advertiser , October 24, 1768. Thomas Crowley, an English Quaker and merchant engaged in the iron trade with America, had traveled there enough to realize the strength of colonial resistance to taxation by Parliament. He had been campaigning in consequence for a federation of the empire, with a single imperial parliament, as the means of reconciling...
7593[Diary entry: 21 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
21. Reachd Fredericksburg, found Warner Washington &ca. there. Warner Washington (1722–1790), of Gloucester County, was a son of John and Catherine Whiting Washington, and a first cousin to GW. Warner’s first wife, Elizabeth Macon Washington (c.1729–1763), of New Kent County, bore him one child who lived to maturity, Warner Washington, Jr. (1751–1829). In May 1764 Warner married Hannah Fairfax...
7594[Diary entry: 21 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
21. A good deal of Rain in the Night & more or less till 9 or 10 Oclock then clear with the Wind Westwardly.
7595[Diary entry: 22 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
22. Dined at Parkers Ordy. & lodgd at Mr. Benjn. Hubbards—Colo. Lewis also. In the 1760s William Parker, a planter and justice of the peace, operated an ordinary in his home in Caroline County ( campbell [1] Thomas Elliott Campbell. Colonial Caroline: A History of Caroline County, Virginia . Richmond, 1954. , 347, 413).
7596[Diary entry: 22 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
22. Clear and pleasant with a small Southwardly breeze.
7597[Diary entry: 23 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
23. Dined at the Causey & got to Colo. Bassetts. Because the shores of the lower Pamunkey River were rather marshy, it was difficult to maintain convenient ferry landings. In 1749 Thomas Dansie, who had a wharf on the north, or King William, side of the Pamunkey, was authorized to build a “Causeway from the [south shore of the Pamunkey] River opposite to his said Wharf through the said Marsh...
7598[Diary entry: 23 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
23. Ditto—Ditto—Ditto.
7599“A Journal of the Times”: 24 October 1768 (Adams Papers)
This day the brig Tryton, owned by Mr. D——s, a merchant of this town, was seized by order of the Board of Customs, on supposition it is said, that she had some time ago been employed in an illicit trade; and that they may oblige the owner to prove where and how she has been employed.— This seizure exhibits another instance of the generosity of the Commissioners, and their friendly disposition...
7600To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 24 October 1768: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society [New York, October 24. Repeats the information in his letter of October 17, adding only that his son had tried to swindle Franklin as well as Thomas Cumming, that William Franklin has arrived at Sir William Johnson’s, and that Parker’s lawsuit with Holt drags on.]