[Diary entry: 8 May 1770]

8. Went the same rounds again and promised the ditchers 18d. a Rod if they woud be brisk and stick to it.

Miss Betty Ramsay & Milly Hunter also Anthy. Ramsay came here today. The latter returnd after dinner. The others stayed.

For GW’s difficulties with the ditchers, see “Remarks” entries for 1–8 May 1770.

Amelia Hunter, a daughter of the Alexandria physician John Hunter and his wife Elizabeth, married a Mr. Terrett sometime before May 1776 (will of John Hunter, 10 June 1763, Fairfax County Wills, Book B–1, 364–65, Vi Microfilm; will of George Hunter, 17 May 1776, Fairfax County Wills, Book C–1, 257–58, Vi Microfilm). Anthony Ramsay of Alexandria was a lawyer who had been admitted to the bar of the Fairfax County court 19 Feb. 1770 (Fairfax County Order Book for 1768–70, 286, Vi Microfilm). Young Ramsay, the eldest son of William Ramsay, died during the winter of 1772–73.

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Title: [Diary entry: 8 May 1770]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 8 May 1770

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 8 May 1770],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0005-0012-0008. [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. 235.]