1[Diary entry: 31 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
31. Went to Alexa. Church. Dind at Colo. Carlyles & returnd in the Afternoon. The Fairfax vestry decided 27 Nov. 1766 to replace the parish’s two church buildings with new brick structures, one near Four Mile Run called Falls Church, and one at Alexandria, later called Christ Church. The vestry advertised for bids and on 1 Jan. 1767 agreed with James Parsons (d. 1785) to build the church at...
2[Diary entry: 31 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
31. Very warm, with Rain flying abt. but none fell with us. Wind fresh from the southward in the Afternoon.
3From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 31 July 1768 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 15th Inst. covering Master Custis’s Letter to his Mother came to hand a few days after date.—In looking over the Books I find Cicero: De Officies and send it, as also his own Grammer which he forgot—a Livy I cannot find. —If the pain which he complained of in his stomach should return, with any other Symptoms of worms, it might be very proper for Doctr. Mercer to prescribe...