10181[Diary entry: 17 December 1770] (Washington Papers)
17. Jacky Custis went to Annapolis & I to Court. Returnd in the afternoon. Jacky was not eager to return to school. “His mind,” GW warned Jonathan Boucher, is “a good deal relayed from Study, & more than ever turnd to Dogs Horses Guns” (16 Dec. 1770, NNC ). The court met 17–19 Dec. (Fairfax County Order Book for 1770–72, 157–68, Vi Microfilm).
10182[Diary entry: 17 December 1770] (Washington Papers)
17. Very pleasant Morning, but Cloudy & blustering afterwards.
10183To George Washington from William Carr, 17 December 1770 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 12th Currt came to hand Yesterday which confirmd what Mr Lawson Told me regarding your wheat as you Manufacture yours it will not be in my power to procure a ship Load in this part of the Country being only desird to ship from one to 200 Barrells of Flower & that on condition its of Equal Quality with the Baltimore & Philadelphia. I am empowerd by Mr Russell to Settle &...
10184[Diary entry: 18 December 1770] (Washington Papers)
18. Rid to my Mill and to the Ditchers in the Fore and Afternoon. GW today completed a land transaction with Valinda Wade, paying her £175 for her share of the Wade family property on Dogue Run, which she and her two sisters, Sarah and Eleanor, had inherited. During the past few years Sarah had died unmarried, and Eleanor, who had married John Barry of Fairfax County, had recently died also,...
10185[Diary entry: 18 December 1770] (Washington Papers)
18. Pleasant again tho a little Cool & frosty.
10186To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 18 December 1770 (Washington Papers)
I thank You much for your Intimations respecting Master Custis. Were all Those who have the Care & Direction of Children as attentive to their real Interests, We shou’d not have so many Complaints of Children spoil’d by Parental Indulgence. It is not without much Concern I own to You, that your Sentimts of this young Gentleman have, for some Time, been my own. I have observ’d his growing...
10187Deed from Valinda Wade, 18 December 1770 (Washington Papers)
[ 18 Dec. 1770 ]. “This Indenture made the Eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy between Valinda Wade of the County of Fairfax and Colony of Virginia Spinster of the one part and George Washington of the County and Colony aforesaid Gentn of the other part Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the Sum of One hundred and Seventy five...
10188To George Washington from George Mercer, 18 December 1770 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you from hence about two Months since, at the Request of Mrs Savage, praying you to do, what her own Letter now she says repeats, and enforces. I believe the poor Woman has but a bad Time of it, as she is amongst other Things, at the tender Age of three score & ten, denied the Use of Pen Ink Paper & Romances, and a frequent Use of the Strap is substituted in the Place of those...
10189[Diary entry: 19 December 1770] (Washington Papers)
19. Went to Colchester on an Arbitration between McCraes Exrs. and John Graham—no business done. Allan Macrae of Dumfries had died in 1766, and the executors of his will were Thomas Lawson, of the Neabsco iron furnace in Prince William County, and Capt. John Lee (1709–1789), who lived on Chopawamsic Creek in Stafford County ( Va. Gaz. , P&D, 11 Dec. 1766). John Graham (1711–1787), clerk of the...
10190[Diary entry: 19 December 1770] (Washington Papers)
19. Calm, clear, and Pleasant.