9451To George Washington from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 21 May 1770 (Washington Papers)
We did ourselves the pleasure of writg Thee the 25th October last ⅌ the Hanbury Capn Esten, since which we have not received any of Thy favors, which we are sorry for, being always glad to hear of Thy welfare. The principal occasion of this is to advise that we have sent Captain Necks in a new Ship call’d the Lunn & Lloyd for the accomodation of our friends, whom we earnestly solicit will give...
9452[Diary entry: 22 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
22. Reached Williamsburg to Breakfast & dined at the Club at Mrs. Campb[ells] and supped at the Raleigh. GW lodged at Mrs. Campbell’s tavern for his stay in town. The House of Burgesses, which had convened the previous day as scheduled, dealt mostly with private bills during this session and transacted relatively “little business of a public nature” ( GW to George W. Fairfax, 27 June 1770 ,...
9453[Diary entry: 22 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
22. Clear and rather Cool Wind being fresh from the westward.
9454To Benjamin Franklin from the Georgia Assembly Committee of Correspondence, 23 May 1770 (Franklin Papers)
AD (letterbook copy): Georgia Historical Society The 11th. Instant we wrote you a Short Line by the Britannia Captain Deane of which you have now a Copy inclosed principally to acquaint you of your being reappointed by the General Assembly Agent to sollicit the Affairs of this Province in Great Britain for the Present year ending the first day of next month and also of your being reappointed...
9455[Diary entry: 23 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
23. Dined at Mrs. Dawson’s and spent the Evening in my own Room.
9456[Diary entry: 23 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
23. Clear and still cool for the Season notwithstanding the wind was Southwardly.
9457[Diary entry: 24 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
24. Dined at the Treasurers, & spent the Evening in my own Room. Between this date and 29 May, GW bought four play tickets for 30s.; clubbed twice at the Raleigh, purchased a vial of red ink costing 1s. 3d., and paid 2s. for postage and coffee ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 314).
9458[Diary entry: 24 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
24. Warm with some appears. of Rain of which a little fell in the Night.
9459[Diary entry: 25 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
25. Dined at the Palace & attended a Committee of the Association at Hayes. Spent the Eveng. there. A general meeting of the Virginia nonimportation association had been held in Williamsburg 22 May, and a committee of 20 gentlemen, including GW, had been appointed to revise the agreement that the associators had signed the previous year ( Va. Gaz. , R, 3 May 1770; carter [3] Jack P. Greene,...
9460[Diary entry: 25 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
25. Very warm. Wind being Southwardly—a little Rain in the Morning.
9461To George Washington from William Peareth, 25 May 1770 (Washington Papers)
In May last I troubled Coll Hunter to get forwarded to you Messrs Colvill & West as Exectutors to the late Mr Colvill a letter from Newcastle, covering the Pedigree of Dulcibella Stott & Certificate of her then residing there which, had been formed in consequence of an Advertisment put into the News Papers by the direction of the Will of the said Mr Colvill. I then represented to you the...
9462[Diary entry: 26 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
26. Took a Snack at Mrs. Dawson’s & went up to Eltham in the Afternn. The House of Burgesses adjourned after today’s meeting until 11:00 A.M. Monday, 28 May ( JHB H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia . 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15. , 1770–72 , 20).
9463[Diary entry: 26 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
26. Wind very fast from the Westwd. all day and towards Evening Cool with appearances of Rain but none fell.
9464[Diary entry: 27 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
27. At Eltham all day.
9465[Diary entry: 27 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
27. Cool and clear all day. Wind being still to the westward.
9466To Benjamin Franklin from the Georgia Assembly Committee of Correspondence, 28 May 1770 (Franklin Papers)
AD (letterbook copy): Georgia Historical Society We are now to take under Consideration the Instructions of the Assembly respecting a Claim of Lands made by the late Sir William Baker of London deceased, in this Province, which We are directed to instruct you to Represent to his Majesty. These Resolutions were drawn up tho’ the Substance of them was long before agreed to, in too great a hurry,...
9467To Benjamin Franklin from Humphry Marshall, 28 May 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I Recieved thy favour of the 18th. of the 3d mo. Last In Which thou informs me that “The Nation Seems Besotted With the Fancy that We Cannot Possily Do Without them, and must of Course Comply at Last.” I am almost ready to Doubt that our merchants Will not hold out Long Enough tho’ there Seems Spirit and Resolution Enough in Some of them to Do it. But there...
9468[Diary entry: 28 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
28. Returnd to Williamsburg by 9 Oclock. Dined at the Speakers and attended a Committee of the Associn. at Hayes till 11 Oclock.
9469[Diary entry: 28 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
28. Lowering kind of a Morning but clear afterwards & cool all day.
9470[Diary entry: 29 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
29. Dined at Mrs. Dawson’s and spent the Evening in my own Room.
9471[Diary entry: 29 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
29. Not as cool as yesterday. Wind variable with appearances of Rain.
9472[Diary entry: 30 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
30. Dined at the Club and spent the Eveng. in my own Room. GW today paid £1 10s. to Col. John Henry (d. 1773), father of Patrick Henry, for a copy of his map of Virginia which had been published the previous February by Thomas Jefferys of London.
9473[Diary entry: 30 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
30. Wind Eastwardly. Cool and cloudy with Rain towards Night which continued all Night.
9474From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [before 10 July 1770] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I send you a few of your Translations. I did not put your Name as the Translator, (which I at first intended) because I apprehended it might look like Vanity, in you, and as I shall otherwise make it known, I think the omitting it, will look like Modesty. Mr. H. is here, requesting me to speak to Mrs. Tickell, which I have promis’d to do on Friday morning....
9475From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 31 May 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): Library of Congress I receiv’d your Letter early this Morning, and as I am so engag’d that I cannot see you when you come to-day, I write this Line just to say, That I am sure you are a much better Judge in this Affair of your own than I can possibly be; in that Confidence it was that I forbore giving my Advice when you mention’d it to me, and not from any Disapprobation. My...
9476[Diary entry: 31 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
31. Dined at the Attorneys and attended a Committee of the Association at Hayes till One Oclock.
9477[Diary entry: 31 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
31. Raining more or less all day with the wind westwardly.
9478[June 1770] (Washington Papers)
June 1st. Dined at the Club at Mrs. Campbells (Williamsburg) and attended a Meeting of the Association at the Capitol at 6 Oclock & contd. there till Eleven Oclock. At this general meeting, it was resolved “ that a friendly Invitation be given to all Gentlemen Merchants, Traders, and others, to meet the associators, in Williamsburg , on Friday the 15th Instant, in order to consult and advise...
9479Acct. of the Weather in June [1770] (Washington Papers)
June 1st. Cloudy & Misty all day. In the Evening a pretty hard shower of Rain. 2. Clear & exceeding pleasant—being also Warm & growing. 3. Clear & pleasantly warm. The Wind being at So. West & rather fresh in the Afternoon. 4. Clear in the forenoon but cloudy & lowering afterwards with the Wind westwardly. 5. Lowering Morning & sometimes slight Showers—with the Wind about Southwest. 6. Clear...
9480Cash Accounts, June 1770 (Washington Papers)
Cash June 1— To Do [cash] of Mr Phil: Claiborne for Int. of his Bd £ 14. 0.0 To Do of Do on acct of Intt for Mr Wm Dandridges Bond 22. 0.5 7— To Josh Valentine on acct of Frans Fosters Intt 1. 0.0 To Ditto on Acct of Rent pd by the Revd Mr [Thomas] Smith for my House in Town 13.16.6 To Cash of Mr [George] Wythe Postage of a Letter &ca to Mr G[eorge] Johnson & pd by me 1.10.0 13— To Cash recd...
9481To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gilpin, 1 June 1770 (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from “Memoir of Thomas Gilpin,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , XLIX (1925), 312–13. This extract and three others that follow, from letters by Gilpin of June 8, July 19, and November 15, may or may not have been to Franklin. The extracts hitherto printed in this and the preceding volume are described in the memoir from which they come, written by Thomas...
9482[Diary entry: 1 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
June 1st. Dined at the Club at Mrs. Campbells (Williamsburg) and attended a Meeting of the Association at the Capitol at 6 Oclock & contd. there till Eleven Oclock. At this general meeting, it was resolved “ that a friendly Invitation be given to all Gentlemen Merchants, Traders, and others, to meet the associators, in Williamsburg , on Friday the 15th Instant, in order to consult and advise...
9483[Diary entry: 1 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
June 1st. Cloudy & Misty all day. In the Evening a pretty hard shower of Rain.
9484From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 2–9 June 1770 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 21st Ulto containing very judicious remarks on the advantages of Travelling (to youth who have a turn to Improvement) served to convince me of the Utility of the measure. but when I came to converse with sevl Gentlemen who have had some experience of the expence, and of whose judgments I entertaind a better opinion of than my own, I find myself embarrassed; Not because I...
9485To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Priestley, 2 June 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society I inclose a few copies of my Proposals , with the catalogues much inlarged. I therefore beg you would destroy the former, and dispose of these as you shall think most conducive to the design. I shall send a greater number soon to Mr. Johnson, from whom you may have whatever you want. In the mean time, I am obliged to take the liberty to inclose a small...
9486[Diary entry: 2 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
2. Dined at the Club & spent the Evening in my own Room. GW wrote to Jonathan Boucher on this date, telling him that he had discussed the proposed European tour with several gentlemen in town and they had confirmed his suspicion that the expense would exceed Jacky’s income. But he did not close the door on the matter. He would gladly approve the trip, he said, if a way could be found to reduce...
9487[Diary entry: 2 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
2. Clear & exceeding pleasant—being also Warm & growing.
9488[Diary entry: 3 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Dined at the Club and spent the Evening in my own Room. The burgesses were again adjourned for Sunday ( JHB H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia . 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15. , 1770–72 , 44).
9489[Diary entry: 3 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Clear & pleasantly warm. The Wind being at So. West & rather fresh in the Afternoon.
9490[Diary entry: 4 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
4. Dined at the Club and spent the Evening at the Councills Ball at the Capitol. GW today paid Edmund Pendleton £1 1s. 6d. for a legal opinion on John West, Jr.’s agreement to sell his land adjoining Mount Vernon ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 318). The council’s ball was held this evening in...
9491[Diary entry: 4 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
4. Clear in the forenoon but cloudy & lowering afterwards with the Wind westwardly.
9492From Benjamin Franklin to Smith, Wright & Gray, 5 June 1770: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library [Craven Street, June 5, 1770. Encloses three bills: Watts & McEvers on Harley & Drummond for £150, Colin Drummond on Nesbit, Drummond & Franks for £100, and Henry Thompson on Pearson & Baillie for £50, and asks for a receipt by bearer for £300. Again requests the protest of the bill on Cunningham. ] These were Parker’s remittances from New York on his postal...
9493[Diary entry: 5 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
[5.] Dined at the Club & spent the Evening in my own Room.
9494[Diary entry: 5 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
5. Lowering Morning & sometimes slight Showers—with the Wind about Southwest.
9495From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Sr., 6 June 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Your Favour of Jan. 8 came duly to hand, but I have been so much engag’d during the Sitting of Parliament, that I could not correspond regularly with all my Friends, and have of course trespass’d most with those on whose Good Nature and Indulgence I could most rely. I am however asham’d of being so long silent. It is but the other Day that I enquired after...
9496From Benjamin Franklin to John Winthrop, 6 June 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society I find among my Papers a Letter of yours, dated Dec. 7. 1769, which I must have had some Months in my Hands; and tho’ I think I have answered it, I am not certain; a Multiplicity of Business during the late Sessions of Parliament having occasioned a Forgetting of some Circumstances. It will only be a little unnecessary Labour if I answer it again. I did...
9497[Diary entry: 6 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
6. Dined at the Club and spent the Evening in my own Room.
9498[Diary entry: 6 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
6. Clear and pleasant with the wind Eastwardly, which occasiond towards Night a lowering sky & Cool Air.
9499Address to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson Requesting the Return of the General Court to Boston, 7 June 1770 (Adams Papers)
7 June 1770. MS ( M-Ar ), in an unidentified hand. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts [1715–], Boston, reprinted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919–. (For the years for which reprints are not yet available, the original printings are cited, by year and session.) , 1770–1771, p. 22. Prepared by a committee appointed 6 June composed...
9500From Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, 7 June 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Bibliothèque Municipale de Nantes I wrote to you sometime since that I had receiv’d your Orders to procure a Mace and Gowns suitable for your Assembly, and that I hoped to have them ready to go by this Ship. The Gowns are accordingly ready; but the Silversmith has not kept his Time. So I think it best to send the Whole together, which I shall do by the first Opportunity after the Mace is...