26. Countess a hound Bitch after being confind sometime got loose and was lined before it was discovered by my Water dog once and a small foist looking yellow cur twice.
GW had paid £1 16s. for a spaniel on 5 Feb. (General Ledger A description begins General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 302).
“[Diary entry: 26 March 1770],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0005-0008-0002. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, pp. 225–226.]