George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 13 January 1773]

13. Went into the Neck in the forenoon to lay of a Fence at Hallerys.

hallerys: GW probably means Samuel Halley (Haley), who had married John Sheridine’s (d. 1768) widow, Barberry. Halley and his wife still lived in Clifton’s Neck on the land her father-in-law, John Sheridine of Charles County, Md., rented from GW.

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    [Diary entry: 13 January 1773]
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    Washington, George
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    13 January 1773

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    “[Diary entry: 13 January 1773],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0003-0002-0013. [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. 155.]