George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 10 June 1774]

10. Dined at the Raleigh, & went to the Fire works.

Fireworks were occasionally used to celebrate a public event, as in the “elegant set of fireworks . . . displayed in this city [Williamsburg] on the arrival of . . . Lady Dunmore” (Va. Gaz., R, 10 Mar. 1774; CARSON [2] description begins Jane Carson. Colonial Virginians at Play. Williamsburg, Va., 1965. description ends , 200–203). They may also have been to commemorate the second anniversary of the burning of the British revenue cutter Gaspee.

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    [Diary entry: 10 June 1774]
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    Washington, George
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    10 June 1774

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    “[Diary entry: 10 June 1774],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0004-0011-0010. [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. 255.]