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.
7861[Diary entry: 14 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
14. At home all day. And alone.
7862[Diary entry: 14 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
14. Cloudy & sometimes misty with little or no Wind as there was not yesterday.
7863[Diary entry: 15 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
15. Ditto Do. Do.
7864[Diary entry: 15 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
15. Cloudy, & sometimes dropping—quite Calm and Warm.
7865[Diary entry: 16 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
16. Went a ducking in the forenoon—otherwise at home all day. In the Afternoon Mr. B. Fairfax came here. During this month Bryan Fairfax bought a hunting horn from GW for 6s. and paid him 2s. 3d. lost at cards ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 287).
7866[Diary entry: 16 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
16. Very cloudy and little Wind—sometimes droppg. of Rain & sometimes snow.
7867[Diary entry: 16 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
16. Began to open my New Road that is to cut the Bank down this side Hell hole.
7868A Purported Letter from Paris, 17 January 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Public Advertiser , January 17, 1769 Extract of a Letter from Paris to a Gentleman in London, dated Dec. 23. You English consider us French as Enemies to Liberty: You reproach us for endeavouring to reduce Corsica to our Obedience, and say, that if we heard of a Freeman on the other Side of the Globe, you suppose we should hasten thither to make a Slave of him. How easy it is...
7869Defense of American Placeholders, 17 January 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser , January 17, 1769 In his two roles of colonial agent and royal official, Franklin was particularly vulnerable to charges in America that he was betraying the first, and in England that he was betraying the second. Criticism in the London press of him and other Americans in royal service continued as long as he remained in England, but this is...
7870An Account Stated against G. G., [17 January 1769] (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Verner W. Crane, ed., Benjamin Franklin’s Letters to the Press, 1758–1775 (Chapel Hill, N.C., [1950]), pp. 156–9. I thank you for the Information you so readily gave at the Request of the Manufacturer of London , relating to the Agreement going forward in America not to use more of our Manufactures. The Memorial you published in your Paper of the 13th inst. from the Merchants of...
7871[Diary entry: 17 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
17. Fox huntg. in the Neck with Mr. Fairfax Triplet & Peake—started nothing.
7872[Diary entry: 17 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
17. Clear. Wind high from the No. West & cool. Towards the afternoon wind lowered.
7873[Diary entry: 18 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
18. Fox huntg. again in the above Compa. and Harn. Manley—started a Fox and lost it. The above dind here as Mr. Wagener also did. mr. wagener : Probably Peter Wagener (d. 1798), who was a member of the committee of associators of Fairfax County, served as county lieutenant of Fairfax during the Revolution, and married Sinah McCarty a daughter of Daniel McCarty. He is generally referred to in...
7874[Diary entry: 18 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
18. Ground froze. Wind fresh from the So. West & clear till the Afternoon then Muddy.
7875[Diary entry: 18 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
18. Another Spewing frost.
7876[Diary entry: 19 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
19. Fox hunting in the same Company—fd. nothing. Mr. Fairfax & Mr. Wagr. dind here.
7877[Diary entry: 19 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
19. Clear—the Ground froze—and Wind at No. West but not hard. Afternoon hazy.
7878Thomas Hutchinson to ——, 20 January 1769 (Franklin Papers)
You have laid me under very great obligations by the very clear and full account of proceedings in parliament, which I received from you by Capt. Scott. You have also done much service to the people of the province. For a day or two after the ship arrived, the enemies of government gave out that their friends in parliament were increasing, and all things would be soon on the old footing; in...
7879[Diary entry: 20 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
20. Fox huntg. again with Mr. Wagener Mr. Fairfax and Mr. Clarke. The two last dind here. Mr. Wagener went home. mr. clarke : perhaps a member of the Clarke family of Salem, Mass., and Barbados, who were related by marriage to the Fairfaxes and the Washingtons.
7880[Diary entry: 20 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
20. Clear and but little Wind—that variable. Ground froze.