9481To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gilpin, 1 June 1770 (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from “Memoir of Thomas Gilpin,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , XLIX (1925), 312–13. This extract and three others that follow, from letters by Gilpin of June 8, July 19, and November 15, may or may not have been to Franklin. The extracts hitherto printed in this and the preceding volume are described in the memoir from which they come, written by Thomas...
9482[Diary entry: 1 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
June 1st. Dined at the Club at Mrs. Campbells (Williamsburg) and attended a Meeting of the Association at the Capitol at 6 Oclock & contd. there till Eleven Oclock. At this general meeting, it was resolved “ that a friendly Invitation be given to all Gentlemen Merchants, Traders, and others, to meet the associators, in Williamsburg , on Friday the 15th Instant, in order to consult and advise...
9483[Diary entry: 1 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
June 1st. Cloudy & Misty all day. In the Evening a pretty hard shower of Rain.
9484From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 2–9 June 1770 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 21st Ulto containing very judicious remarks on the advantages of Travelling (to youth who have a turn to Improvement) served to convince me of the Utility of the measure. but when I came to converse with sevl Gentlemen who have had some experience of the expence, and of whose judgments I entertaind a better opinion of than my own, I find myself embarrassed; Not because I...
9485To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Priestley, 2 June 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society I inclose a few copies of my Proposals , with the catalogues much inlarged. I therefore beg you would destroy the former, and dispose of these as you shall think most conducive to the design. I shall send a greater number soon to Mr. Johnson, from whom you may have whatever you want. In the mean time, I am obliged to take the liberty to inclose a small...
9486[Diary entry: 2 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
2. Dined at the Club & spent the Evening in my own Room. GW wrote to Jonathan Boucher on this date, telling him that he had discussed the proposed European tour with several gentlemen in town and they had confirmed his suspicion that the expense would exceed Jacky’s income. But he did not close the door on the matter. He would gladly approve the trip, he said, if a way could be found to reduce...
9487[Diary entry: 2 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
2. Clear & exceeding pleasant—being also Warm & growing.
9488[Diary entry: 3 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Dined at the Club and spent the Evening in my own Room. The burgesses were again adjourned for Sunday ( JHB H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia . 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15. , 1770–72 , 44).
9489[Diary entry: 3 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Clear & pleasantly warm. The Wind being at So. West & rather fresh in the Afternoon.
9490[Diary entry: 4 June 1770] (Washington Papers)
4. Dined at the Club and spent the Evening at the Councills Ball at the Capitol. GW today paid Edmund Pendleton £1 1s. 6d. for a legal opinion on John West, Jr.’s agreement to sell his land adjoining Mount Vernon ( General Ledger A General Ledger A, 1750–1772. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. , folio 318). The council’s ball was held this evening in...