[Diary entry: 13 April 1770]

13. We finished to day what we began yesterday & he and Mr. Robt. Adam dined and lodged here.

GW and West probably decided to use Brent’s original dividing line, running it as accurately as possible, because West’s and Marshall’s tracts had been bought from William Spencer before the northern boundary had been changed (deed of Spencer to George Harrison, 25–26 May 1739, Prince William County Deeds, Book D, 94–100, Vi Microfilm; deed of Spencer to Thomas Marshall, 20–21 Nov. 1739, Prince William County Deeds, Book D, 289–94, Vi Microfilm).

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Title: [Diary entry: 13 April 1770]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 13 April 1770

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 13 April 1770],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0005-0009-0013. [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. 227–228.]