[Diary entry: 19 January 1772]

19. At home all day. In the Afternoon Majr. Wagener and Mr. John Barnes with Doctr. Craik came here.

John Barnes, eldest son of Abraham Barnes (d. 1777) of St. Mary’s County, Md., had recently gone bankrupt as a tobacco merchant in Port Tobacco, Md. After settling his firm’s affairs, he moved to western Maryland, where he eventually developed a prosperous plantation called Montpelier (COPELAND description begins Pamela C. Copeland and Richard K. MacMaster. The Five George Masons: Patriots and Planters of Virginia and Maryland. Charlottesville, Va., 1975. description ends , 110, 160–61).

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Title: [Diary entry: 19 January 1772]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 19 January 1772

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 19 January 1772],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0002-0001-0019. [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. 83.]