4781[Diary entry: 5 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
5. Set out in Company with Doctr. Craik for the Settlement on Redstone &ca. dind at Mr. Bryan Fairfax’s & lodged at Leesburg. Several factors induced GW to make the arduous journey through western Pennsylvania and the Ohio country in the fall of 1770. Among the most pressing was the question of locating bounty lands on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia...
4782[Diary entry: 5 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
5. Clear, warm & remarkably pleasant with very little or no Wind.
4783[Diary entry: 5 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 5th. Began a journey to the Ohio in Company with Doctr. Craik his Servant, & two of mine with a lead Horse with Baggage. Dind at Towlston and lodgd at Leesburg distant from Mount Vernon abt. 45 Miles. Here my Portmanteau horse faild in his stomach. For additional annotation of GW’s diary entries for October, see the previous section. Towlston Grange was Bryan Fairfax’s home in Fairfax...
4784From George Washington to Botetourt, 5 October 1770 (Washington Papers)
Being fully convincd of your Lordships Inclination to render every just and reasonable Service to the People you Govern, & to any Society or body of them that shall ask it; and being in a more particular manner encouragd by a Letter which I have just receivd from Mr Blair (Clerk of the Council) to believe, that your Excellency is desirous of knowing how far the Grant of Land sollicited by Mr...
4785Account of Expenditures for Trip to the Great Kanawha, 6 October–30 November 1770 (Washington Papers)
By Expences in a Journey to the Ohio viz. [Md. Currency] [Oct.] 6 At Mosss Ordy 0. 3. 6 Leesburg 0.10. 0 for Sugar there 0. 5. 8 Do Mug 0. 1. 3 A Cirsingle at Leesburg 0. 4. 6 Expences at Caudley’s 0. 6. 0 7— At [Jesse] Pugh’s 0. 6. 0 8— Cacapehon
4786[Diary entry: 6 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
6. Bated at old Codleys. Dind and lodgd at my Brother Sam’s. GW’s expenses at Codley’s (Caudley’s) were £6 ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 329). Codley’s was located at Williams’ (later Snickers’) Gap in the Blue Ridge. It was near the site of present-day Bluemont, some 15 miles from Samuel...
4787[Diary entry: 6 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
6. Again clear pleasant and still.
4788[Diary entry: 6 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
6. Fed our Horses on the Top of the Ridge at one Codleys & arrivd at my Brother Samls. on Worthingtons Marsh a little after they had dind the distance being about 30 Miles. From hence I dispatchd a Messenger to Colo. Stephens apprising him of my arrival and Intended Journey. Samuel Worthington, a Quaker, had settled as early as 1730 on a crown grant of some 3,000 acres northwest of present-day...
4789[Diary entry: 7 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
7. Dind at Rinkers and lodgd at Saml. Pritchards. Casper (Jasper) Rinker’s house was located approximately ten miles from Winchester on the Winchester-Cumberland road. Rinker, a member of a family of early German settlers in the Shenandoah Valley, was given a grant of land, 2 June 1762, in what is now Hampshire County, W.Va., on the basis of a survey by GW (Northern Neck Deeds and Grants, Book...
4790[Diary entry: 7 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
7. As pleasant as the two preceeding days.