George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 28 February 1774]

28. Mr. Tayler, Mr. Wagener & one Mordaica Red came to Breakfast & went away afterwards.

mr. tayler: possibly Hancock Taylor, who accompanied his first cousin, Hancock Lee, on a surveying trip into Kentucky in the spring of 1774. During that trip Taylor was killed by Indians (Va. Gaz., P&D, 15 Sept. 1774). Mordecai Redd, of Frederick County, later bought a piece of land in Frederick County from the estate of George Carter, for which GW was a trustee (see main entry for 10 Mar. 1769).

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    [Diary entry: 28 February 1774]
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    Washington, George
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    28 February 1774

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    “[Diary entry: 28 February 1774],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0004-0003-0028. [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. 236.]