Elsewhere GW calls his English turnips “Norfolk turnips,” from the county in southeast England where the raising of turnips (Brassica rapa) as a field crop for livestock was highly developed. Tull’s method of drilling the seed in rows to permit cultivation by horsedrawn equipment had become a technique of the agricultural revolution in England. Elsewhere GW mentions the Naper turnip, Swedish turnip, winter turnip, and summer turnip.

GW contracted a bad cold during the election campaign in Frederick County in May 1761, which turned into a long, serious illness during the summer and fall of 1761. In August he went to Berkeley Springs to try to recover his health. Although he felt an improvement after a few weeks at the warm springs, he had a slight relapse while attending the House of Burgesses in October and missed some of the meetings. (On GW’s illness, see FREEMAN description begins Douglas Southall Freeman. George Washington: A Biography. 7 vols. New York, 1948–57. description ends , 3:62–63, 67–68, 70.)