George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 8 July 1768]

8. Began to cut the Wheat at the Mill in the field round the Overseers House which was cut, & abt. 4 Acres in the other this day by 10 and sometimes 11 Cradlers which were all that worked amounting in the whole to abt. 40 Acres.

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    [Diary entry: 8 July 1768]
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    Washington, George
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    8 July 1768

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    “[Diary entry: 8 July 1768],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0003-0021-0004. [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. 80.]