45971[Diary entry: 12 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
12. Threshing Wheat at all Plantations Ground being too hard froze to Grub to any advantage.
45972George Mercer’s Orders, 19–20 April 1756 (Washington Papers)
After Orders. No Soldier is to fire his piece, under pain of the severest punishment, without orders. The Sergeant-Major is to go through the Town, and acquaint the towns’ people, that it is Colonel Washingtons particular desire, that none of them fire off their guns (as it will be impossible to know when an alarm happens) without applying to Captain Peachy for leave; who will allow them, if...
45973[Diary entry: 28 February 1760] (Washington Papers)
Thursday Feby. 28th. Measurd the Fields by the Quarter & Garden as the Fences was intended to be run and found Six Acres in the former & Nine in the Latter. Also run the Round the Fields in the Lower pasture according as the dividing Fence is to go but the Compass being bad or some mistake happening I coud not close the plot with any exactness. Finished Grubbing the Field by the Garden....
45974General Orders, 11 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
A Captain two Subs. three Serjeants three corporals and Fifty oarsmen from the Connecticut Line are to be furnished with Boats and reinforce the water Guard—This detachment to be from the Light Infantry companies—The Captain will apply without delay to Head Quarters for Instructions. The General having observed several boats adrift in the river and apprehending many may be lost, directs the...
45975[Diary entry: 21 April 1798] (Washington Papers)
21. Rained the greater part of last Night. Wind still Southerly & fresh. Mer. 58 in the morning 62 at Night & 64 at highest. A very heavy shower of Rain & high wind abt. 2 Oclock. Mr. Dade & Mr. Fitzh. went after breakf.
45976III-A–7. Account of Rents in the Estate, 1759 (Washington Papers)
An Account of Rents In Williamsburg John Warrington £20. Peter Scott 10. Thomas Weathers 10. George Chaplain 10. Andrew Lindsay 5. James Yates 5. £60. In York County Emery Hughs 8. Abram Co⟨les⟩ 4.
45977[Diary entry: 11 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
11. At home all day. Mr. Thos. Rutherford came here to dinner & Mr. Resin Bell in the afternn. Rutherford is probably Robert Rutherford’s brother Thomas, of Berkeley (later Jefferson) County (see GREENE [3] Katherine Glass Greene. Winchester, Virginia, and Its Beginnings, 1743–1814 . Strasburg, Va., 1926. , 375–82). Rezin Beall (1723–1809), whose name is variously spelled, was a descendant of...
45978[Diary entry: 28 May 1787] (Washington Papers)
Monday 28th. Met in Convention at 10 Oclock. Two States more—viz.—Massachusetts, and Connecticut were on the floor to day. Established Rules—agreeably to the plan brot. in by the Comee. for the governmt. of the Convention & adjourned. No com[municatio]ns without doors. Dined at home, and drank Tea, in a large circle at Mr. Francis’s. no com[municatio]ns without doors : GW is referring to the...
45979[Diary entry: 4 September 1785] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 4th. Mercury at 66 in the Morning—68 at Noon and 68 at Night. Foggy, or Misling morning, and Cloudy most part of the day, with but little Wind.
45980[Diary entry: 18 June 1768] (Washington Papers)
18. At home all day prepg. Invoices and Letters for England. The “Invoices and Letters” were all dated 20 June 1768, the “Invoices” listing personal and plantation items needed from England for Mount Vernon and the Custis estates. To Charles Lawrence of London, GW wrote for a “Suit of handsome Cloth Cloaths,” reminding the tailor that his long-legged correspondent stood a “full Six feet high”...