4531From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 27 June 1770 (Washington Papers)
Herewith you will receive some Letters which I brought from Williamsburg; which place I left on Saturday in the After noon. The Assembly was not then up, a few Bills remaind unfinished which woud oblige the House to set again this Week—little business of a Publick nature has been transacted—private Bills have engrossd the time of the House almost wholely since the First meeting of it. A New...
4532[Diary entry: 28 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
28. Rid into the Neck between breakfast and Dinner. Mr. Addison and Mr. Boucher, who came yesterday in the Afternoon went away today after Breakfast. Jonathan Boucher had been installed as rector of St. Anne’s Parish in Annapolis 12 June, and now, accompanied by his sponsor Rev. Henry Addison, he was returning to Caroline County to settle his affairs there ( st. ann’s “Vestry Proceedings, St....
4533[Diary entry: 28 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
28. Lowering Morning but clear afterwards and Hott.
4534[Diary entry: 29 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
29. Dined at Belvoir. Went on Board the Boston frigate to Drink Tea and returnd in the Afternoon. The Boston was a British man-of-war commanded by Sir Thomas Adams. Sent from England to serve three years on station in American waters, she had arrived at Hampton in early March of this year ( Va. Gaz. , P&D, 2 Nov. 1769 and 8 Mar. 1770).
4535[Diary entry: 29 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
29. Clear and very warm. Wind being southwardly and but little of it.
4536[Diary entry: 29 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
29. Finish’d it, & got the Hay all Stack’d.
4537[Diary entry: 30 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
30. Went into the Neck between breakfast and Dinner.
4538[Diary entry: 30 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
30. Cooler than yesterday. Wind being fresh from the westward.
4539[Diary entry: 30 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
30. Got my Mill Walls up to the 2d. Floor of the House—and then quitted it for Harvest. Began my Wheat Harvest in the Neck. This fragment of remarks and occurrences is in the possession of the superintendent of schools, Exeter, N.H.
4540[July 1770] (Washington Papers)
July 1st. At home—Sir Thomas Adams—the two Colo. Fairfax’s & Mr. Waker a Midshipman dined here. 2. Went into my Wheat field before diner. Mr. Davis a Midshipman dined here. 3. One of the Bostons Midshipmen breakfasted here. Between breakfast and Dinner I went into my Harvest field. 4. Went into my Harvest field between breakfast and Dinner. 5. Sir Thomas Adams and Mr. Glasford his first...