Wednesday Apl. 23d. Went to Colo. Bassetts and remaind there the whole day.
Burwell Bassett’s home, Eltham in New Kent County, was less than a mile up the Pamunkey River from West Point, where the Pamunkey joins the Mattaponi to form the York River.
[Diary entry: 23 April 1760]
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- Washington, George
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- 23 April 1760
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- Year: Washington the Planter and Farmer, 1760
- Month: [April 1760]
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- “[Diary entry: 23 April 1760],” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-01-02-0005-0004-0023. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 1, 11 March 1748 – 13 November 1765, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 272.]