7791[Diary entry: 27 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
27. No frost. Foggy & misty all day and thawing fast.
7792[Diary entry: 28 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
28. At home all day alone.
7793[Diary entry: 28 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
28. Raining more or less all Night, Snow mostly gone—off the open ground entirely. Good deal of Rain this day also—no frt.
7794[Diary entry: 29 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
29. Went a fox hunting. Started one but did not catch it. In the Afternoon Messrs. Dalton, Piper & Riddell came here. Also Mr. Mag[owa]n. Mr. Riddell is probably either John or Henry. John was a merchant in Dumfries. Henry, to whom GW later wrote concerning the seating of his western lands, was a merchant at Piscataway, Md., and the chief Maryland factor for Glassford & Co. of Glasgow, Scot. (...
7795[Diary entry: 29 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
29. Cloudy—Misting—& sometimes rain with the wind southwardly. No frost.
7796[Diary entry: 30 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
30. At home with them all day.
7797[Diary entry: 30 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
30. Clear. Wind at No. West, & fresh in the Morning but incling. Southwardly in the afternoon. No frost.
7798[Diary entry: 31 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
31. Went a hunting & catchd a bitch fox—the above Gentlemn. with me. GW played cards on this date, losing an unspecified amount ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 286).
7799[Diary entry: 31 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
31. No frost. Wind southwardly—& Cloudy—but no rain. Evening clear.
7800To Benjamin Franklin from [Theodore Forbes?] Leith, before 20 December 1773 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Lloyd’s Evening Post , Dec. 20–22, 1773 The Parmesan Cheese is not made at present in the neighbourhood of Parma, but is solely the produce of the State of Milan, and especially of the country betwixt Placentia and Milan; that made near Lodi is the most esteemed. The following account is given from an observation of the whole process, as conducted at a considerable Farmer’s on the...