161[Diary entry: 20 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Sunday Apl. 20th. Set out early, and crossd at Cedar point by 10; the day being very calm & fine, Dind and lodgd at my Brother’s. The Evening Cloudy with Rain. Wind tho little at So. West. The lower of the two Cedar Points in Maryland was about a 13–mile ride south from Port Tobacco. GW most likely used Hooe’s ferry, although several ferries crossed the Potomac from Cedar Point in 1760. His...
162[Diary entry: 21 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Monday Apl. 21st. Crossd at Southern’s and Tods Bridge and lodgd at Major Gaines’s. After leaving his brother’s home GW rode about three miles below Leedstown to Southern’s (earlier Southings) ferry on the Rappahannock River, whose owner lived on the far side of the river in Essex County. In 1755 the ferryboat was manned by two Negroes ( HENING William Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large;...
163[Diary entry: 22 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday April 22d. Crossd Pamunky at Williams’s Ferry, and visited all the Plantations in New Kent. Found the Overseers much behind hand in their Business. Went to Mrs. Dandridges and lodgd. From Major Gaines’s, GW rode south through King William County to cross the Pamunkey River into New Kent County at Williams’s ferry. The crossing brought him very near the Custis plantations in the...
164[Diary entry: 23 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday Apl. 23d. Went to Colo. Bassetts and remaind there the whole day. Burwell Bassett’s home, Eltham in New Kent County, was less than a mile up the Pamunkey River from West Point, where the Pamunkey joins the Mattaponi to form the York River.
165[Diary entry: 24 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Thursday April 24th. Visited my Quarters at Claibornes and found their business in tolerable forwardness. Also went to my other Quarter at where their was an insufficient quantity of Ground prepard—but all that coud be had—it was sd. Dind at Mr. Bassetts and went in the Evening to Williamsburg. claibornes : This Custis plantation lay in King William County on the neck of land the Pamunkey...
166[Diary entry: 25 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Friday Apl. 25th. Waited upon the Govr. The governor of Virginia was an appointee of the king. Since, in the British imperial practice, the governorship was considered to be a source of revenue as well as an administrative responsibility, the governor often obtained the royal appointment of a lieutenant governor, who would live in Virginia as the colony’s chief executive officer, and with whom...
167[Diary entry: 26 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Saturday Apl. 26th. Visited all the Estates and my own Quarters about Williamsburg. Found these also in pretty good forwardness. Receivd Letters from Winchester informing me that the Small Pox had got among my Quarter’s in Frederick; determind therefore to leave Town as soon as possible and proceed up to them. estates: John Parke Custis’s plantations in York County. He had also inherited the...
168[Diary entry: 27 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Sunday Apl. 27th. Went to Church. In the Afternoon some Rain, & a great deal of severe Lightning but not much Thunder. church: probably Bruton Parish Church on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg.
169[Diary entry: 28 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Monday Apl. 28th. Let my House in Town to Colo. Moore, for Colo. Dandridge, who is to come into it in the Fall, and pay me 45 £ pr. Ann. In the meanwhile I am to paint it. In the Afternoon after collecting what Money I coud I left Town and reachd Colo. Bassetts. This day agreed with Mr. Jno. Driver of Nansemond for 25,000 shingles to be deliverd in October. They are to be 18 inch shingles and...
170[Diary entry: 29 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday Apl. 29th. Reachd Port Royal by Sunset. GW crossed the Pamunkey River at Thomas Dansie’s ferry and dined at Todd’s ordinary on his way to Port Royal ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 89).