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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Editorial Note | Editorial note . During the spring of 1748 GW undertook a journey that introduced him for the... | |||
2 | Washington, George | A Journal of my Journey over the Mountains began Fryday … | ≈1748-03-11 | Fryday March 11th. 1747/8. Began my Journey in Company with George Fairfax Esqr.; we travell’d... | |
3 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 11 March 1748] | 1748-03-11 | Fryday March 11th. 1747/8. Began my Journey in Company with George Fairfax Esqr.; we travell’d... | |
4 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 12 March 1748] | 1748-03-12 | Saturday March 12th. This Morning Mr. James Genn the surveyor came to us. We travel’d over the... | |
5 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 13 March 1748] | 1748-03-13 | Sunday March 13. Rode to his Lordships Quarter about 4 Miles higher up the River we went through... | |
6 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 14 March 1748] | 1748-03-14 | Monday 14th. We sent our Baggage to Capt. Hites (near Frederick Town) went ourselves down the... | |
7 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 15 March 1748] | 1748-03-15 | Tuesday 15th. We set out early with Intent to Run round the sd. Land but being taken in a Rain &... | |
8 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 16 March 1748] | 1748-03-16 | Wednesday 16th. We set out early & finish’d about one oClock & then Travell’d up to Frederick... | |
9 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 17 March 1748] | 1748-03-17 | Thursday 17th. Rain’d till Ten oClock & then clearing we reached as far as Major Campbells one of... | |
10 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 18 March 1748] | 1748-03-18 | Fryday 18th. We Travell’d up about 35 Miles to Thomas Barwicks on Potomack where we found the... | |
11 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 20 March 1748] | 1748-03-20 | Sunday 20th. Finding the River not much abated we in the Evening Swam our horses over & carried... | |
12 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 21 March 1748] | 1748-03-21 | Monday 21st. We went over in a Canoe & Travell’d up Maryland side all the Day in a Continued Rain... | |
13 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 22 March 1748] | 1748-03-22 | Tuesday 22d. Continued Rain and the Freshes kept us at Cresaps. | |
14 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 23 March 1748] | 1748-03-23 | Wednesday 23d. Rain’d till about two oClock & Clear’d when we were agreeably surpris’d at the... | |
15 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 25 March 1748] | 1748-03-25 | Fryday 25th. 1748. Nothing Remarkable on thursday but only being with the Indians all day so... | |
16 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 26 March 1748] | 1748-03-26 | Saterday 26. Travelld up the Creek to Solomon Hedges Esqr. one of his Majestys Justices of the... | |
17 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 27 March 1748] | 1748-03-27 | Sunday 27th. Travell’d over to the South Branch (attended with the Esqr.) to Henry Vanmetriss in... | |
18 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 28 March 1748] | 1748-03-28 | Monday 28th. Travell’d up the Branch about 30 Miles to Mr. James Rutlidge’s Horse Jockey & about... | |
19 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 29 March 1748] | 1748-03-29 | Tuesday 29th. This Morning went out & Survey’d five Hundred Acres of Land & went down to one... | |
20 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 30 March 1748] | 1748-03-30 | Wednesday 30th. This Morning began our Intended Business of Laying of Lots. We began at the... | |
21 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 31 March 1748] | 1748-03-31 | Thursday 31st. Early this Morning one of our Men went out with the Gun & soon Returnd with two... | |
22 | Washington, George | [April 1748] | ≈1748-04-01 | Fryday April the 1st. 1748. This Morning Shot twice at Wild Turkies but killd none. Run of three... | |
23 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 1 April 1748] | 1748-04-01 | Fryday April the 1st. 1748. This Morning Shot twice at Wild Turkies but killd none. Run of three... | |
24 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 2 April 1748] | 1748-04-02 | Saterday April 2d. Last Night was a blowing & Rainy night. Our Straw catch’d a Fire that we were... | |
25 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 3 April 1748] | 1748-04-03 | Sunday 3d. Last Night was a much more blostering night than the former. We had our Tent Carried... | |
26 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 4 April 1748] | 1748-04-04 | Monday 4th. This morning Mr. Fairfax left us with Intent to go down to the Mouth of the Branch.... | |
27 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 5 April 1748] | 1748-04-05 | Tuesday 5th. We went out & did 4 Lots. We were attended by the same Company of People that we had... | |
28 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 6 April 1748] | 1748-04-06 | Wednesday 6th. Last Night was so Intolerably smoaky that we were obliged all hands to leave the... | |
29 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 7 April 1748] | 1748-04-07 | Thursday 7th. Rain’d Successively all Last Night. This Morning one of our men Killed a Wild Turky... | |
30 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 8 April 1748] | 1748-04-08 | Fryday 8th. We breakfasted at Casseys & Rode down to Vanmetris’s to get all our Company together... | |
31 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 9 April 1748] | 1748-04-09 | Saterday 9th. Set the Surveyors to work whilst Mr. Fairfax & myself stayed at the Tent our... | |
32 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 10 April 1748] | 1748-04-10 | Sunday 10th. We took our farewell of the Branch & travelld over Hills and Mountains to 1 Coddys... | |
33 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 11 April 1748] | 1748-04-11 | Monday 11th. We Travell’d from Coddys down to Frederick Town where we Reached about 12 oClock. We... | |
34 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 12 April 1748] | 1748-04-12 | Tuesday 12th. We set of from Capt. Hites in order to go over Wms. Gap about 20 Miles and after... | |
35 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 13 April 1748] | 1748-04-13 | Wednesday the 13th. of April 1748. Mr. Fairfax got safe home and I myself safe to my Brothers... | |
36 | Note on the Digital Edition of This Chapter | This diary chapter includes JPEG images of print edition pages 38–117, the facsimiles of the... | |||
37 | Editorial Note | GW’s older half brother Lawrence had been in poor health during the decade following the British... | |||
38 | Biographical Data | Information on the persons mentioned by GW during his stay on the island is in most instances... | |||
39 | The Washingtons in Barbados | The arrival at Bridgetown, on Carlisle Bay, is not well documented because pages are missing from... | |||
40 | The Manuscript | The Barbados diary had deteriorated seriously before it was silked and mounted at the Library of... | |||
41 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 4 November 1751] | 1751-11-04 | November 4 th , 1751.—This morning received a card from Major Clarke, welcoming us to Barbadoes,... | |
42 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 5 November 1751] | 1751-11-05 | 5 th. —Early this morning came Dr. Hilary, an eminent physician recommended by Major Clarke, to... | |
43 | Editorial Note | In the two years between his return from Barbados and the outbreak of the French and Indian War,... | |||
44 | Washington, George | Journey to the French Commandant: Narrative | ≈1753-10-31 | On Wednesday the 31st. of October 1753 I was Commission’d & appointed by the Honble. Robert... | |
45 | Editorial Note | In the weeks after GW’s return from his journey to the French commandant, reports of further... | |||
46 | Washington, George | Expedition to the Ohio, 1754: Narrative | ≈1754-03-27 | On the 31st of March , I received from his Honour a Lieutenant Colonel’s Commission, The date of... | |
47 | Washington, George | [January 1760] | ≈1760-01-01 | January 1 Tuesday. Visited my Plantations and receivd an Instance of Mr. French’s great Love of... | |
48 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 1 January 1760] | 1760-01-01 | January 1 Tuesday. Visited my Plantations and receivd an Instance of Mr. French’s great Love of... | |
49 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 2 January 1760] | 1760-01-02 | Jany. 2d. Wednesy. Mrs. Barnes who came to visit Mrs. Washington yesterday returnd home in my... | |
50 | Washington, George | [Diary entry: 3 January 1760] | 1760-01-03 | Thursday Jany. 3d. The Weather continuing Bad & the same causes subsisting I confind myself to... |