7851[Diary entry: 10 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
10. Finishd gathering Corn at Doeg run Quarter. 242 Barrels. A Very spewing frost among Wheat particularly in the little field at Doeg run. Note the consequence of this. spewing frost : Farmers now refer to this process, which lifts and injures the roots of plants, as “heaving.”
7852[Diary entry: 11 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
11. Went a fox hunting in the Neck with Mr. Peake, but found nothing.
7853[Diary entry: 11 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
11. Rain from about 9 Oclock in the Morng. with very little Wind.
7854To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 11 January 1769 (Washington Papers)
I have been much concern’d that it has not been in my Power to spend a few Days at Mount Vernon, as I hop’d I should. A very painful Disorder I labour’d under when Mastr Custis left Me, confin’d Me to my Bed a Fortnight, and now it is too late to set out, when I expect all my little Flock to return immediately, as Some of Them already are. You will please therefore to let Mastr Custis know,...
7855Notes on a Week’s Diet and Poor Health, [between 12 June 1769, and 30 July 1770] (Franklin Papers)
AD : Library of Congress So dated because of the reference to dining at Mr. Foxcroft’s. Although the time bracket is unlikely to have much value, the means of establishing it may be worth explaining to illustrate how such problems of dating can sometimes be narrowed when they cannot be solved. The Pa. Packet , on which Foxcroft came to England, arrived on May 30 or 31 ( Lloyd’s Evening Post ,...
7856[Diary entry: 12 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
12. Went out in the Morng. with the Hounds in order to meet Colo. Fairfax but did not. In Hell hole started a fox and after an hours chase run him into a hole, & left him. In the afternoon went to Alexa. to the Monthly Ball.
7857[Diary entry: 12 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
12. Clear & Calm morning but lowering Afternoon.
7858From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 12 January 1769 (Washington Papers)
In looking over my order (of the 20th of June last) for Goods, I perceive that I have omitted sending for Dutch Blanketting for the use of my Estate on Potomack—an Article I much want, and must beg the favour of you to send me by the first Ship bound to this River. Three pieces are requisite; and if they cannot be got here (in a vessel to Potomack) by the middle or last of October, I must, in...
7859[Diary entry: 13 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
13. Havg. lodgd at Captn. Daltons was confind there till the Afternoon by Rain & then came Ho[me]. John Dalton lived on the north side of Cameron Street between Water (now Lee) and Fairfax streets ( moore [1] Gay Montague Moore. Seaport in Virginia: George Washington’s Alexandria . 1949. Reprint. Charlottesville, Va., 1972. , 71–72).
7860[Diary entry: 13 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
13. Raining all the forenoon, & till three Oclock in the Afternoon with very little Intermisn. Much rain fell in this time.