[Diary entry: 5 April 1768]

5. At home with Mr. Crawford. Mr. Campbell came here & dined, Mrs. Washington, Miss B. Ramsey & Patcy Custis went to Belvoir & returnd.

As an agent for the Alexandria partnership of Carlyle & Adam, Matthew Campbell (d. 1782) had come to Mount Vernon to pay GW £121 11s. 9½d. for wheat purchased from him during the past six months (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 271).

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Title: [Diary entry: 5 April 1768]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 5 April 1768

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 5 April 1768],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0003-0010-0005. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 52.]