July 1. Began my Wheat Harvest in the Neck. Work’d Ten Cradles 8 of which were my own Negroes. Cut down the 50 Acre Cut upon Carneys Gut next the House.
[Diary entry: 1 July 1771]
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- Washington, George
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- “[Diary entry: 1 July 1771],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0001-0018-0001. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 44.]