9881[October 1770] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1. Rid to my Mill and the Ditchers with Mr. Warnr. Washington. Colo. Fairfax dind here. The Doctr. Rumney still here. Mr. Carr came in the Eveng. William Carr (d. 1791), a Dumfries merchant, dealt in wheat and flour. He had been a trustee of the town since 1761 and in 1765 served as a commissioner to divide Fairfax Parish from Truro Parish ( Carr to GW, 17 Dec. 1770 , DLC:GW ; hening...
9882Acct. of the Weather in October [1770] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1st. Wind Southwardly and warm with flying Clouds. 2. Raining, Hailing, or Snowing the whole day—with the wind Northerly Cold & exceeding disagreeable. 3. Clear but cold. Wind being very high from the Northwest. 4. Clear and pleasant. Wind being fresh and very fresh. 5. Clear, warm & remarkably pleasant with very little or no Wind. 6. Again clear pleasant and still. 7. As pleasant as the...
9883Cash Accounts, October 1770 (Washington Papers)
Cash Octr 9— To Cash of Lt Jno. Savage his quota of advance towards Surveying the Soldiers Lands £6. 0.0 16— To Ditto Recd from Colo. Adam Stephen on the above Acct in part 4.12.6 Contra Octr 3— By Cash sent Mrs Green of Annapolis Printg Advertisemt abt Poseys Ferry 0. 6.6 By Luke Kenny Sadler his Acct 2. 6.3 5— By Cash to Jno. P. Custis 20/—By Do to M.P.C. 20/ 2. 0.0 AD , General Ledger A
9884[Diary entry: 1 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1. Rid to my Mill and the Ditchers with Mr. Warnr. Washington. Colo. Fairfax dind here. The Doctr. Rumney still here. Mr. Carr came in the Eveng. William Carr (d. 1791), a Dumfries merchant, dealt in wheat and flour. He had been a trustee of the town since 1761 and in 1765 served as a commissioner to divide Fairfax Parish from Truro Parish ( Carr to GW, 17 Dec. 1770 , DLC:GW ; hening...
9885[Diary entry: 1 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1st. Wind Southwardly and warm with flying Clouds.
9886To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 1 October 1770 (Washington Papers)
I much wish’d to have accompany’d Jack, but cannot: & what is worse, We part on an Uncertainty, which may be disagreeable. I have some Thoughts of setting off for St Mary’s this Week; & if I do get away, I can hardly expect to return again till I remove finally, which cannot well be sooner than the latter End of next Month. So that, if I do not come by Mount Vernon, Jack needs not come hither,...
9887From Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 2 October 1770: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S. &c. (quarto ed., London, 1817–18), III , 319. I see with pleasure that we think pretty much alike on the subjects of English America. We of the colonies have never insisted that we ought to be exempt from contributing to the common expences necessary to support the...
9888From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre du Pont de Nemours, 2 October 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Henry Francis DuPont Wintherthur Museum I received with great Pleasure the Assurances of your kind Remembrance of me, and the Continuance of your Goodwill towards me, in your Letter by M. le Comte Chreptowitz. I should have been happy to have rendred him every Civility and Mark of Respect in my Power (as the Friend of those I so much respect and honour) if he had given me the...
9889From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 2 October 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I always think it too much to put you to the Expence of Postage for any Letters of mine; and one so seldom meets with private Hands that one can trouble with a Letter, that our Correspondence must suffer long Interruptions. Your last Favour was dated July 4. recommending to me, and to Sir John Pringle, your Friend the Baron Darcy; to whom we should have gladly...
9890Daniel Roberdeau to Benjamin Franklin, John Fothergill, and Charles Pearce, 2 October 1770 (Franklin Papers)
AL (letterbook draft): Historical Society of Pennsylvania You’ll please to be refered to what I wrote you some Months past respecting the Sale of my Estate in St. Christophers, since which I have not been favoured with any answer but an obliging kind Letter from Doctor Franklin informing that you had appointed a meeting to converse on that subject, so that I am ignorant of the steps you have...