7791[Diary entry: 29 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
29. Clear, Calm, & pleasant all day with but little Wind.
7792[Diary entry: 30 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
30. Went a Hunting but found nothing. Messrs. Addison & Carr dining here—as did Mr. Manley.
7793[Diary entry: 30 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
30. Calm and pleasant in the Morning. A good deal of Wind from the Westward afterwards.
7794[Diary entry: 31 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
31. Mr. Magowan came here Yesterday in the Afternoon & this day with Messrs. Carr & Addison went up after Dinner to Alexa.
7795[Diary entry: 31 December 1772] (Washington Papers)
31. Calm, Clear, & pleasant all day.
7796From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 31 December 1772 (Washington Papers)
On the 20th of November from Williamsburg I advisd you of two Bills I had just drawn on you, desiring they might be placed to the Account of Mr Custis; one of them for One hundred and fifty pounds; & the other of Two hundred and fifty; the last of which was sold and will be presented to you for payment —the other I have taken in, having now of this date, drawn another in its place of One...
7797[undated diary entry] (Washington Papers)
The following is the opinion of the late Lord Chanceller Cambden, and Chanceller York, on Titles derivd by the Kings Subjects from the Indians or Natives. “In respect to such places as have been, or shall be acquired by Treaty or Grant from any of the Indian Princes, or Governments, your Majestys Letters Patents are not necessary, the Property of the Soil, vesting in the Grantee by the Indian...
7798[undated diary entry] (Washington Papers)
Sales of the Pews in Alexandria Church—to whom—&ca. Nos. Purchasers Price 4 Mr. Townsd. Dade £28. 5 Colo. G. Washington 36.10 13 Mr. Robt. Adam 30. 14 Mr. Robt. Alexander 30.10 15 Mr. Dalton 20. 18
7799Memorandum List of Quitrents, 1773 (Washington Papers)
A List of Lands belonging to Geo: Washington in the Northern Neck—on wch Quit-rents became due—Michaelmas 1773. In Fairfax County—Mt Vernon 2126 Bought of Darrell 500 Clifton 1806 Brent 238 Wm Ashford 135 Geo: Ashford 135 Simn Pearson 178 Wm Whiting 200 Jno. Posey 200
7800[January 1773] (Washington Papers)
Jany. 1st. Dined at Belvoir and returnd in the Afternoon. Found Mr. Grafton Dulany, Mr. Ben. Gallaway, Mr. Sam Hanson & Mr. Magowan and Doctr. Rumney here. Grafton Dulany, son of Mary Grafton and Walter Dulany, the commissary general for Maryland, was a student at Jonathan Boucher’s school in Annapolis. He became a Loyalist in the Revolution and served with the Maryland Loyalist Battalion in...