[Diary entry: 7 March 1773]

7. Dined at the Governors and Spent the Evening at Mrs. Campbells.

GW and Governor Dunmore were planning a trip sometime in the summer to inspect western lands in the Ohio Valley (FREEMAN description begins Douglas Southall Freeman. George Washington: A Biography. 7 vols. New York, 1948–57. description ends , 3:317). The House of Burgesses did not meet today, Sunday (JHB description begins H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15. description ends , 1773–76, 13).

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Title: [Diary entry: 7 March 1773]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 7 March 1773

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 7 March 1773],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0003-0006-0007. [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. 165.]