George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 18 July 1787]

Wednesday 18th. In Convention. Dined at Mr. Milligans and drank Tea at Mr. Meridiths.

In 1790 James Milligan (d. 1818) lived on south Second Street (HEADS OF FAMILIES, PA. description begins Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Pennsylvania. 1908. Reprint. Baltimore, 1970. description ends , 237). As auditor and then as comptroller general of the treasury under the Articles of Confederation he had audited many of GW’s Revolutionary accounts.

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