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Book/Printed MaterialImage 1 of Volume I : 1748-65 The Diaries of GEORGE WASHINGTON Volume I 1748–65
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 2 of Volume I : 1748-65
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 3 of Volume I : 1748-65
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 4 of Volume I : 1748-65 ASSISTANT EDITORS Beverly H. Runge, Frederick Hall Schmidt, and Philander D. Chase George H. Reese, CONSULTING EDITOR Joan Paterson Kerr, PICTURE EDITOR
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 5 of Volume I : 1748-65 THE DIARIES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON VOLUME I 1748–65 DONALD JACKSON, EDITOR DOROTHY TWOHIG, ASSOCIATE EDITOR UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 6 of Volume I : 1748-65 This edition has been prepared by the staff of The Papers of George Washington, sponsored by The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and the University of Virginia. THE UNIVERSITY PRESS...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 7 of Volume I : 1748-65 Administrative Board David A. Shannon, Chairman Mrs. Thomas Turner Cooke W. Walker Cowen Advisory Committee John R. Alden C. Waller Barrett Francis L. Berkeley, Jr. Julian P. Boyd Comte René de Chambrun...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 8 of Volume I : 1748-65
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 9 of Volume I : 1748-65 Contents Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii The Diaries for 1748–65 Surveying for Lord Fairfax, 1748 1 Voyage to Barbados, 1751–52 24 Journey to the French Commandant, 1753–54 118 Expedition to the Ohio, 1754...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 10 of Volume I : 1748-65
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 11 of Volume I : 1748-65 Maps Washington's Extended Neighborhood xxi Washington's Potomac Neighborhood above the Falls 8 Washington's West 124–25 The Mount Vernon Neighborhood 213 Washington's Potomac Neighborhood below the Falls 220–21 The Growth of Mount Vernon...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 12 of Volume I : 1748-65 xii Sketch of portion of Mount Vernon estate 21 Survey of site of Belhaven, or Alexandria, by Washington 22 Lawrence Washington 25 Bridgetown, capital of Barbados 25 “Pine-Apple,” Barbados 27 Scene on...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 13 of Volume I : 1748-65 xiii Washington's copy of Price's British Carpenter 292 Roof trusses 292 Royal arms of colonial Virginia 297 Tobacconist's trade card 303 Arrangement of an orchard 316 George Mason 318 Manuscript map of...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 14 of Volume I : 1748-65
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 15 of Volume I : 1748-65 xv Acknowledgments The editors' first obligation is to the sponsors and agencies whose financial support and enthusiastic backing made our work possible. The cosponsors of The Papers of George Washington are the...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 16 of Volume I : 1748-65 xvi been made possible by the cooperation of the following repositories and individuals who own the original manuscript material: the Library of Congress, Columbia University Libraries, the Detroit Public Library, Mount Vernon,...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 17 of Volume I : 1748-65 xvii Introduction This edition of the Washington diaries has been prepared by the staff of The Papers of George Washington, an enterprise jointly sponsored by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 18 of Volume I : 1748-65 xviii away from Mount Vernon many weeks, he wrote home for the diary he had accidentally left behind. “It will be found, I presume, on my writing table,” he said. “Put it...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 19 of Volume I : 1748-65 xix enough for his purposes; it was what happened on that day. His curt entry would serve to remind him of his devotion to his ill-fated stepdaughter, dead in her teens after...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 20 of Volume I : 1748-65 xx they carried the tobacco—and in later years the wheat or flour—that were sent to pay for his imports. Now and then his commercial representatives in London, Robert Cary & Co., would...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 21 of Volume I : 1748-65 Washington's Extended Neighborhood
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 22 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxii In such a world, Washington felt happiest within a much smaller region bounded on the south by the James River and on the north by the Potomac. This was his neighborhood,...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 23 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxiii Council and collector of customs for the south Potomac Naval District. His influence was derived from his father's cousin, Thomas Fairfax, sixth Baron Fairfax of Cameron, proprietor of all the land...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 24 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxiv Valley and the valleys beyond. He himself acquired lands along Bullskin Run, a tributary of the Shenandoah River, lands which he retained until his death. During the French and Indian War...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 25 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxv the role of an American leader, which eventually took him away from his beloved neighborhood again. Indeed, the network of interconnecting regions between the Potomac and the James that made up...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 26 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxvi fields on Bullskin plantation in the Shenandoah Valley, his estate and those who inhabited it were his constant concern. The diaries are a monument to that concern. In his letters he...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 27 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxvii Jethro Tull's Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, London, 1733, influenced Washington's early attempts at scientific farming. (Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University)
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 28 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxviii had relied upon a three-year crop rotation: winter grain, a spring crop, and a year of fallow. The revolution brought forage crops, roots, and “artificial,” or nonnative, grasses, an entire new...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 29 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxix On 6 Aug. 1786 Washington sent him a grateful response. “Agriculture has never been amongst the most favorite amusements of my life, though I never possessed much skill in art, and...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 30 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxx career in agriculture, was finding the right crops for the soil, climate, and practical needs of his Mount Vernon establishment. His determination to throw off the bondage of single-crop farming seemed...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 31 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxxi what he needed, because the hard substratum of clay on his farms made it difficult to till the crop properly without serious erosion. He needed corn because he believed that his...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 32 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxxii Cultivating tools from an eighteenth-century work, La Nouvelle Maison rustique, Paris, 1798. (Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union) could be used to fence in other livestock. Another decade was to...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 33 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxxiii Papers). When the farms of the Mount Vernon estate were inventoried in 1800, the listing for the River Farm included one threshing machine, probably a stationary one (ViMtV).3 Like most farmers...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 34 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxxiv His own self-confessed failures in husbandry were due more to his long absences from home than to a lack of good intentions; his letters to his farm managers are filled with...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 35 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxxv Washington's own copy of Thomas Hale's Compleat Body of Husbandry, London, 1758. (Boston Athenaeum)
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 36 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxxvi His swine ran loose in fenced woodlands until it was time to select the best for fattening in pens. They rooted and shoved their way through his hedges and eluded any...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 37 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxxvii In 1834 a writer from Fairfax County, signing himself “F,” wrote a letter to the editor of the Farmers' Register. He had recently ridden across the farms. “Any, curious to mark...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 38 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxxviii irregular in scope and content. In editing the diaries for the 1925 edition, Fitzpatrick abandoned the weather record midway in his first volume except when it could not be sorted from...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 39 of Volume I : 1748-65 xxxix Two barometer-thermometers now at Mount Vernon, one in Washington's study and the other in the central hall of the mansion, are connected with Washington by family tradition only. A third instrument...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 40 of Volume I : 1748-65 xl Dove of peace weathervane atop the cupola at Mount Vernon and which outdoors, although there are hints in the records themselves. In 1785, during a period when he was recording three...
- Contributor: Jackson, Donald - Twohig, Dorothy - Washington, George
- Date: 1976-01-01