Meet William Fairfax et al
William Fairfax holds quite a lot of stories. Two stories of his in particular read like modern life.
First Story
In 1743, his 15 year old daughter Ann Fairfax, was allegedly sexually attacked by an Anglican Priest. That daughter at 15 then married Lawrence, 25. Lawrence is GW's older step brother.
Second Story
The other story is in 1757, the year we are tracing every Sunday in 2021.
We find a father's concern for a restless, aimless son.
William Fairfax' youngest of 3 sons, Bryan Fairfax is found in jail in Annapolis in late April or early May 1757.
Those 2 stories give you a glimpse of how interconnected all the relationships were in the colonies. They all knew each other. Even the Indians knew them all. Rarely was there violence between strangers.
Skip around on the other stories. Other stories involve racial intermarriage, disagreements over the need for war, and friendships never terminated. Read bits and pieces at your leisure.
This is a partial picture of the Ancestry chart from the flap of the book, FAIRFAX OF VIRGINIA - THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF AMERICA'S ONLY PEERAGE by Hugh Fairfax, privately published by the Fairfax Family, 2017.
Story 1
In 1743, his 15 year old daughter Ann Fairfax, was allegedly sexually attacked by an Anglican Priest. That daughter at 15 then married Lawrence, 25.
Lawrence is George Washington's older brother. Lawrence with the support of his wife's father, William Fairfax went to court in 1745. They lost that court case against the accused attacker.
And who was this Anglican Priest?
He was Charles Green.
He wasn't just anonymous.
GW's father nominated this man to head the parish. William Fairfax supported that nomination. Lord Fairfax appointed him officially. Lt Gov Gooch said the Governor has the right to appoint. The 12 man Vestry thought only they had the power. That dispute went to the upper chamber, the executive Council to decide that appointment power. Charles Green became one of George Washington's advisory doctors.
After this appointment dispute, then came this dramatic case of accusing Charles Green of debauching William Fairfax's daughter - Lawrence Washington's wife.
This is a very convoluted, complex story. It was a headline story in Maryland and Pennsylvania too at the time. Read some more here, as if lifted from modern headlines.
Story 2
But since we are retracing 1757 in this year of 2021,
we find William Fairfax' youngest of 3 sons,
Bryan Fairfax in jail in Annapolis in later April or May 1757.
His son was travelling through Maryland without an authorized pass.
The law was written to catch deserters.
And technically he was.
He had resigned. Then he disappeared.
You can't just resign, unless you have permission, or have power, or paid for that right.
In May 6, 1757, William Fairfax writes to GW. William Fairfax finds out about his son's whereabouts. He finds this out from a letter from his own son. He also understands why GW didn't mention anything about this.
Capt. Gist tells Me You was unwilling to write as You could not avoid touching on a Subject that must have lately greatly afflicted Me: And indeed I have been so for near a Week, when submitting to the Apprehension of Bryan being no more in Life and reducd so by the most deplorable & shocking Case, I recd a Letter from Him dated at Annapolis certifying that He was taken up, examind and having no Pass was committed as one Wm Fisher.
On the usual Fare among Felons, Runaways, Deserters &c. He was Sensible of his Condition
and writes to Me by the Post wch Mr Carlyle seeing at Alexandria, suspected the hand Writing, opened and found it to be from lost Bryan;
next Day sets off for Annapolis to redeem the Captive,
and sent Me Bryan’s Letter to the great Relief of my Mind. T
hus You will observe how a Youth endeavouring to go from Himself is capable of distressing his affecte Kindred.
I guess Bryan after being twice refusd in his Love Addresses
had formd the Resolution to throw himself as a private Centinel
in some of the No[rth]ern Regulars,
and as such to be Conceald.
I hope He will return compos’d wth Mr Carlyle, and Submit to God’s Disposal and the best Manner We can assist. I expect to set off homewards with G. Fx & Dame on Thursday next.
Last year, William Fairfax had pressured GW to give his son, Bryan, a rank in the Virginia Regiment.
Founders Online reports: William Fairfax wrote GW on 9 May 1756 and again on 13 May 1756 asking him to make his son Bryan Fairfax a lieutenant in the Virginia Regiment.
GW felt he owed a lot to William Fairfax, William Fairfax was a mentor and helper. But GW felt this request for the son was unfair to others who had more seniority. So GW tried to sidestep this request.
He finally gives in.
He replaces the more senior Lt Thomas Bullitt with Bryan Fairfax as Lieutenant.
And which month -- July or August -- was Bryan Fairfax hired?
Founders Online reports different months when Bryan Fairfax was given a lieutenancy. It was either July or August 1756:
Founder Online states: In July 1756 Bryan Fairfax replaced Thomas Bullitt as the lieutenant in Capt. George Mercer’s 4th company. (note at another time the Mercer Co was also the 2nd Company. There was no official number assigned thru the many reorganizations)
Bryan Fairfax (1736–1802), who became a lieutenant in George Mercer’s company of the Virginia Regiment in August 1756, had resigned his commission in December 1756. He disappeared in the spring of 1757, and when he was discovered in Annapolis . . .See Founders Online footnote.
But you really couldn't just resign. Unless you had some pull and permission or paid your way to be released. And then he disappeared.
His father, the main subject of our story, William Fairfax, was worried. Then he finds out his son is in jail in Annapolis.
William Fairfax writes that John Carlyle, one of the biggest merchants in Virginia and who married a daughter of William Fairfax went to fetch Bryan Fairfax. Source of all this is from William Fairfax writing from Williamsburg to Colonel George Washington a letter dated 6 May 1757.
HERE WE GO WITH ANOTHER SON:
But even though this all happened, the Father, William Fairfax, pushes another son on GW.
This time GW tries to wiggle out of it by asking Dinwiddie do the appointing.
GW writes on 17 Sept 1757 from Fort Loudoun Winchester VA to Lt Gov Dinwiddie:
When your Honor is pleased to order the vacancy which Captain Spotswood occasions, to be filled up in the name of Captn McNeill, there will be room for a Lieutenant, and then if your please to bestow it on Mr Fairfax, I shou’d take it infinitely kind, if you wou’d oblige me so far as to send the commission immediately from yourself to that Gentleman. For, altho’ I esteem him greatly on account of his Father, for whose memory and friendship, I shall ever retain a most grateful sense; yet making him Lt over many old Ensigns, will occasion great confusion in the corps, and bring censure on me; for the Officers will readily conceive, tht my friendship and partiality to the family were the causes of it. If Mr Fairfax wou’d accept of an Ensigncy, the matter might pretty easily be accommodated. The letter under cover to Colo. Fairfax is not come to hand.
Founders Online says of the above that GW is referring to Dinwiddie’s letter of 1 Sept. 1757. Dinwiddie sent a commission for William Henry Fairfax to GW on 24 Sept. 1757 (first letter).
That letter of 24 Sept 1757, Dinwiddie pushed this task back on GW. Lt Gov Dinwiddie writes Col George Washington, ". . .I can see no Difference if Yo. had done it by my Order."
William Fairfax's sons were close to GW too:
His oldest son,
George William Fairfax, married Sally [aka Sarah Cary], who GW wrote adoring letters even to near the end of his life. See all their saved correspondence here.
Most references to her are Sally, but GW addressed her as Dear Madam.
She may have wondered how her life might have been with GW. Still, there are all sorts of indications that GW's marriage was strong through all the years. It may be that kind of strength is what GW needed for backup and for holding the fort at home. But back to Sara who may have wondered how her life might have been with GW?
She wrote to her sister-in-law in 1788: "I know now that the worthy man is to be preferred to the high-born who has not merit to recommend him…when we enquire into the family of these mighty men we find them the very lowest of people." Washington, too, confesses to Sally in a letter that she was the passion of his youth and that not all the glories of the Revolution, not even the responsibilities of the Presidency, had "been able to eradicate from my mind those happy moments, the happiest in my life, which I have enjoyed in your company." See source in this page turner book link.
Even more interesting:
maintained a warm mutual friendship all their lives too.
See here for the last known surviving letter. See all their correspondence here.
George William Fairfax and his wife, Sara (Sally) Cary, left for England in 1773 to determine an inheritance of property. Because of the war they did not come back. George William Fairfax relied on GW to watch over his colonial properties.
Overtime George William Fairfax may have sensed animosity to his physical appearance or slight shade of skin color.
His Dad had married a mulatto in the Bahamas.
He writes, " . . . altho' I have no reason to doubt any of their indulgences to a poor West India [creole or mulatto] boy especially as he has the marks in his visage that will always testify his parentage."
His youngest son,
Bryan Fairfax, was the one mentioned above caught in jail for suspicion of desertion and who appeared unreliable and undependable for a long time. He was restless all his life. But one consistency? He and GW remained lifetime friends to the end of their lives.
In fact after all those years of war and after the Presidency,
here those two are, still sharing dinner together.
We go here to the end of their lives.
"Throughout his life Bryan had maintained the correspondence with his dear friend George Washington. The very last letter he received from his distinguished neighbor is date 30 Nov 1799, less than a month before the President's death, in which he discusses boundaries between their mutual land holdings. . . .
The week before the President's death, he and Martha dined with the Fairfaxes at Mount Eagle [demolished in 1968] and four days later on 11 Dec 1799, the hospitality was reciprocated when Bryan and his wife dined at Mount Vernon.
The next day Washington rode out in freezing rain to inspect his farms, caught a chill and died on 14 Dec 1799. . . .
. . . As a token of his respect, George [Washington] left Bryan [Fairfax] a large three volume Bible which had belonged to the Bishop of Sodor and Man.
In less than 2 years, Bryan would join his friend when he died in 1802. A memorial stone stands to him at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Alexandria, where he lies surrounded by other members of the family."
Source is pages 81-82 FAIRFAX OF VIRGINIA - THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF AMERICA'S ONLY PEERAGE by Hugh Fairfax, privately published by the Fairfax Family, 2017.
See GW's diary for December 1799 and Ctrl F to find references to "Fairfax."
A principled disagreement
Bryan and GW exchange a civil and principled disagreement:
Bryan refused loyalty oaths to both the "patriots" (rebels) and to the British Army. Each side detained him in his travels at the beginning of the Revolution. GW had to write a permission slip to release him from the patriots detaining him.
In discussing his being against violent revolution,
"For I think myself bound
to oppose violent measures now.
The entering upon a Plan
of having no Trade
would be an arduous undertaking.
I mean if persisted in, and if once entered upon it ought to be strictly kept.
I therefore think it would be more proper
to try first what Effect
a petition might have
toward obtaining a repeal of the Duty."
"As to your political sentiments, I would heartily join you in them, . . .
provided there was the most distant hope of success.
But have we not tried this already?
Have we not addressed the Lords,
and remonstrated to the Commons?
And to what end?
Did they deign to look at our petitions?
. . . Does not the uniform conduct of Parliament for some years past confirm this? Do not all the debates, especially those just brought to us, in the House of Commons on the side of government, expressly declare that America must be taxed in aid of the British funds, and that she has no longer resources within herself? Is there any thing to be expected from petitioning after this? Is not the attack upon the liberty and property of the people of Boston, before restitution of the loss to the India Company was demanded, a plain and self-evident proof of what they are aiming at? Do not the subsequent bills (now I dare say acts), for depriving the Massachusetts Bay of its charter, and for transporting offenders into other colonies or to Great Britain for trial, where it is impossible from the nature of the thing that justice can be obtained, convince us that the administration is determined to stick at nothing to carry its point? Ought we not, then, to put our virtue and fortitude to the severest test?"
A tale for we Moderns:
In another exchange, GW avows on 24 September 1777
"The difference in our political Sentiments never made any change in my friendship for you, . . .
I therefore give my consent, readily, to the prosecution of your Inclination of going to England, and for this purpose Inclose a certificate—or pass-port to come forward to this army whenever you please . . "
But !!!
Back to William Fairfax:
Much more than Lord Fairfax, this William Fairfax was much more of a mentor and friend and benefactor to GW.
We have spent too little time on that valuable point. There are many, many letters of support for GW especially over any troubles he was having.
William Fairfax wrote many letters of support to GW especially when GW was under duress.
He dies this year of 1757, the year we are retracing in 2021.
He dies on 3 Sept 1757.
William Fairfax was really another father figure for GW.
He was also a man of power.
He was President of Council, the group that advises the Governor and who also acted as a sort of Supreme Court. As President of Council, William Fairfax filled in for the Lt Gov. In Virginia as this letter shows 22 March 1757. The Governor was often an absent Governor and in title only. This is why you see many references to the Lt Gov Dinwiddie as Governor, because the real Governor such as Lord Loudoun never set foot in the colony.
William Fairfax was born 1691, two years after the Salem Village Witch Trials. Amazingly he moves to that very town in 1729.
Gedney’s sister, Deborah, married William Fairfax and was the mother of Ann Fairfax, Lawrence Washington’s wife.
More will be updated. But for now we hope you were able to skip around to read bits and pieces of all of these stories.
Compiled by Jim Moyer 3/30/2021, first published 4/4/2021
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Links found in course of doing this research:
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https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/lawrence-washington/
Douglas Southall Freeman
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THE SCANDAL THAT ROCKED OLD VIRGINNY By Ken Ringle December 15, 1990
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Charles Green
and the Rev. Charles Green were active in making surveys in Fairfax County in the 1740s.
Upon his return to Virginia, Lawrence was named adjutant general of the colony. Augustine Washington, Lawrence and George’s father, died on April 12, 1743. George was eleven. After his father’s death, George visited Mount Vernon more frequently, escaping his mother who lived in Fredericksburg.
In 1742, Lawrence was elected to the House of Burgesses. He married Anne Fairfax, a fifteen-year-old nicknamed Nancy, on July 19, 1743. It was a fortuitous match for Lawrence, as Anne was the daughter of wealthy William Fairfax, the cousin of Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Thomas arrived in Virginia in 1742 to oversee his vast tracts of land and built a permanent home for himself. As George spent many hours with Lawrence at Mount Vernon, he naturally benefited from his brother’s providential connection with the Faifaxes. He went to dinners and parties with Lawrence to Belvoir, the seat of William Fairfax. George’s first major surveying job was for Thomas Fairfax.
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the trial
Major Lawrence Washington versus the Reverend Charles Green: A Case Study of the Squire and the Parson
Peter R. Henrique
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 100, No. 2 (Apr., 1992), pp. 233-264 (32 pages)
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one of those individuals has captured my imagination—Gedney Clarke. Because of his status of power in Barbados and elsewhere, he hasn’t quite faded into the shadows of an unknown past. Many aspects of his life, nevertheless, still remain a mystery.
George Washington offered several clues as to the identity of “Major Clarke” in his diary. He mentioned visiting the Clarke home, Gedney’s wife and her niece, and many dinners with Clarke. Gedney had enough influence to introduce George to the rich and powerful on the island, and a simple genealogical search revealed that the Washingtons were in fact related to the Clarkes:
Gedney’s sister, Deborah, married William Fairfax and was the mother of Ann Fairfax, Lawrence Washington’s wife.
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‘…The disease barely touched Virginia between 1732 and 1751.”
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“Note from Gedney Clarke,
an uncle of Lawrence Washington’s wife,
inviting them to his house.
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They went,
though George Washington confessed
“some reluctance” on his part,
because Mrs. Clarke
[Gedney Clarke’s wife]
was confined with smallpox,
a dreaded disease
he had so far avoided.
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It proved to be a fateful decision. Within two weeks he was stricken with the disease.”
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To George Washington
from William Fairfax,
22 March 1757
From William Fairfax Wmsburg 22d March 1757.
Dear Sr
I rec’d your Favor from Philadelphia dated the 2d inst.1
since which finding the Governor likely to stay there [Philadelphia] longer than at first expected and many Matters of Government requisite which could not be done without Me I set off from Belvoir and arrivd here [Williamsburg] the 17th The next Day I was duly qualified in Council as President & Comander in Chief, which has given Me an Opportunity of seeing and treating with Numbers of the Cherokees & Catawba Indians,2
discuorsing with Major A. Lewis & Lieut. Williams on their Affairs. I hope They will soon be under your Command as They appear to be of a warlike Temper and Disposition, fit & willing to encounter any Difficult Attack. I shall be glad to know your Success with Ld Loudoun and his Commands to You in the ensuing Campaign—Thô You may hear of the Genl Assembly’s being prorogu’d to the last Thursday in next Month, yet as several Things as well for your Regiment as the public Weal of the Colony are wanted to be Examind, Setled and adjusted, We expect the Governor will Soon after his Arrival call & appoint a much earlier Meeting—when We shall be glad to See You and give Testimony of our hearty Affection.3
As the Cherokees and Catawba Indians appear to Us well attacht to our Interest We are desirous of preserving Them, therefore endeavor to please & satisfy them. We have furnishd them wth what could be got here: what is yet wanted and you can procure Please to accommodate them and Send or bring the Accot thereof.
Pray remember Me kindly to yr Officers and the brave Men of yr Regiment, and continue to believe that I am with all affecte Regards Dr Sir Yr assurd & loving Friend &ca
W. Fairfax
P.S. I referr to Majr Lewis for pticulars.4
ALS, DLC:GW.
1. GW’s letter has not been found.
2. For Fairfax’s meeting with the Catawba Indians on 18 and 19 Mar., see Clement Read to GW, 15 Mar. 1757, n.1. On 18 Mar. Fairfax and the council met with “Keeraruftikee” and five other Cherokee men and three women. Andrew Lewis arrived at Augusta Court House on 17 Oct. 1756 from his sojourn in the Cherokee country, with seven Cherokee warriors and three women. Richard Pearis returned later in the month with six Cherokee men and two women (see Andrew Lewis to GW, 28 Oct. 1756). In mid-November GW instructed Lewis to send one of the Cherokee back to the Cherokee country with letters and ordered him and Pearis to conduct from Augusta up to Winchester the Indians that had come with Pearis. At the end of February 1757 Pearis conducted a party of nine Cherokee down from Winchester to Williamsburg on their way back to the Cherokee country. Presumably this was the party that Andrew Lewis had brought up in October 1756, though it may have in part been Pearis’s own party. Fairfax and the council saw at this time “another party of Cherokees being fifteen in Number who came to this Government in February last, had marched two Leagues above Fort Du Quesne and returned on Monday last to this City with a French Prisoner and two Scalps. The Chief of them named the Second Yellow-Bird” was a leader of the 130 Cherokee whom Richard Pearis had conducted to the Virginia frontier more than a year before, in the fall of 1755 (Exec. Journals of Virginia Council, 6:28–32).
3. Dinwiddie returned from Philadelphia on 31 Mar. or 1 April and immediately summoned the assembly to meet in Williamsburg on 14 April. See William Fairfax to GW, 31 Mar. 1757.
4. If Andrew Lewis and John Williams did in fact conduct these small parties of Catawba and Cherokee up to Winchester, as William Fairfax’s letter of 31 Mar. suggests, Lewis had left Winchester before GW’s return to the town at the end of March after being in Philadelphia. See Lewis to GW, 8 April 1757.
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To George Washington
from William Fairfax,
31 March 1757
From William Fairfax
Wmsburg 31st March 1757
Dear Sir
Yesterday by the Return of Capt. Ouchterlony I had the Pleasure to enquire of Him concerning your State and Welfare, but He said the Uncertainty of his coming hither prevented his acquainting You with it: however left You well.1
Lieut. Baker setting off with about Sixty of the Nottoway & Tuskarora Indians equipt with Arms &c.2
to joyn the Tribes of Cherokees & Catawbas before Sent under the Care & Conduct of Majr Lewis & Lieut. Williams will I hope be a welcome Reinforcement and productive of good Events—Capt. Jack Chief of the Tuskaroras produc’d to Me in Council your Letter of Invitation, wrote by Bryan Fx, who I wish, had not resignd but continued with You.3
I will not doubt that You had a kind Reception from Lord Loudoun, and that his Orders for the Destination of your Regiment will be agreeable to the Corps.
The Governor came to Town this Day abt 12 o’Clock accompanied wth Govr Dobbs in seeming good Health and little fatigu’d.4
Every Member of the Council is Summond to meet at the Capitol on Monday next, Col. Pp Lee included lately sworn & admitted. Colo. Tayloe has also the King’s Order and may soon be expected to show it for the Same Purpose. By the Governors Discourses whatever the intended Disposition of our Troops may be, is to be an enjoin’d Secret: But I suppo⟨se⟩ You was consulted and thought worthy of being entrusted at least with our Southern Attempts.5 As I apprehend You will not go up to Fort Cumberland (now expected to be given up to Maryland) before You get Money to pay the Arrears due to the Regiment I have desird Mr Baker to leave this Letter at Fredericksburg. He has taken kind Care of his Charge and appeard to be of a sober and good Disposition: if wanted, writes a good Hand, and to Him referr for pticulars.
I don’t yet know whether the Genl Assembly will be calld before Time of prorogation the last Thursday next Month. My best Complts to yr Mother, Bro: Sister and Friends—I am with all Friendly Regards Yr affect. & obedt
W: Fairfax
ALS, DLC:GW.
1. The southern governors’ conference with Loudoun in Philadelphia broke up on 23 Mar., and GW was in Annapolis on his way to Alexandria on 30 March. David Ouchterlony, a former half-pay officer in the Dutch service, had joined the Royal American Regiment as a lieutenant with date of rank 7 Feb. 1756. Captain Ouchterlony seems to have made several trips to Virginia during this time, conveying northward Virginia recruits for his regiment. He was killed at Quebec in 1759.
2. Dinwiddie and GW agreed in December that Lt. James Baker was the man to conduct in the spring a party of Tuscarora and Nottoway Indians from south of the James River to the frontier. See GW to Dinwiddie, 19 Dec. 1756, and Dinwiddie to GW, 27 Dec. 1756. On 29 Mar. in Dinwiddie’s absence Fairfax as president of the council met in Williamsburg with “King Blunt and thirty three Tuscaroroes, seven Meherrins, two Saponies and thirteen Nottoways” before sending them up to GW in Baker’s charge (Exec. Journals of Virginia Council, 6:38).
3. The journals of the Virginia council for 4 April 1757 reported “that Captain Jack the Chief of the Tusks next to the King who was old and feeble, produced and delivered to him [William Fairfax] a Letter from Colonel Washington inviting and encouraging them to come and join us against our Enemies” (ibid., 6:34–39). Bryan Fairfax ran away from home in the spring of 1757 (see William Fairfax to GW, 6 May 1757).
4. Dinwiddie wrote William H. Lyttelton from Williamsburg in a letter dated 2 April that he had arrived the day before. Arthur Dobbs became governor of North Carolina in 1754.
5. The council met on 4 April to receive Dinwiddie’s report on the meeting in Philadelphia with Loudoun. Although Philip Ludwell Lee’s commission as a member of the council was read at the meeting of 22 Mar. 1757, he first attended the council on 14 April. John Tayloe’s commission was read on 11 April and he made his first appearance on 14 April.
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timeline
GW gets to Alexandria maybe the 1st of April
that is same day Mercer wiites GW 95 Catawba in Winchester on same 1st of April.
Find that drummer msg warning the townspeople not to give them drink and they know English
Then to Fort Cumberland, to arrange supplies and men leaving, along with answering their demands for recognition
He must have not present Lord Loudoun the letter he gave Dinwiddie while at Philly
Instead he brought the matter he addressed to Lord Loudoun to Williamsburg
He is in Fredericksburg on his way to Williamsburg 17 April
In Williamsburg the 24 April
that's the same day Mercer writes GW about the 148 Cherokee at Fort Loudoun
17 May is when GW is done in Williamsburg and leaves
24 May is when GW is back in Winchester
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Letters on Founders Online from March 10 to March 31, 1757
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Authorization to William Frizzel to Carry Mail, 10 March 1757
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From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 10 March 1757
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A Testimonial, 11 March 1757 Printed in John Gordon’s Mathematical Traverse Table, &c. Printed in the Year 1758, and Sold by Mr. W. Dunlap, in Philadelphia, Mr. G. Noel, in New-York, Mr. B. Mecom, in Boston, and by the Author. (Yale University Library)6
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To George Washington from Joseph Chew, 14 March 1757
Joseph Chew, a merchant in New London, Conn., and a native of Virginia, corresponded with GW fairly frequently during these years. 1. Colby Chew was associated with Thomas Walker as early as 1750 when Walker led his expedition into the Kentucky territory. GW made Colby Chew an ensign in the Virginia Regiment in October 1757. 2. GW stayed with Beverley Robinson and his family in New York on his journey to and from Boston to see William Shirley early in 1756. It was then that GW paid some attention to “Pretty Miss Polly” (Mary Eliza Philipse, 1730–1825).
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To George Washington from Clement Read, 15 March 1757 Lunenburg March 15th 1757. Dear Sir, About 10 Daies agoe, there came to my House twenty Six Indians of the Cawtaba Nation, with
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From Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Loudoun: Answers to Criticisms of the Supply Bill, [21 March 1757] (Franklin Papers)
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To George Washington from William Fairfax, 22 March 1757 (Washington Papers)
I rec’d your Favor from Philadelphia dated the 2d inst. since which finding the Governor likely...
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1Provincial Commissioners: Order to Pay James Young, 23 March 1757 (Franklin Papers)
DS : Yale University Library Till the New Money to be struck by the One hundred Thousand Pound...
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2Memorial to John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, 23 March 1757 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency, The Right Honorable John Earl of Loudoun, General, and Commander in Chief, of...
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3To George Washington from Thomas Bullitt, 24 March 1757 (Washington Papers)
I Recd yours Janry 1st wherein you was pleased to Signifie that I had not proceeded in a Regular...
4To George Washington from Thomas Bullitt, 24 March 1757 (Washington Papers)
as I have not bin Troublesom to you with Cilicitations on Acct of my Brothers prefermt make free...
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1Philadelphia Post Office Record Book, 1757–1764 (Franklin Papers) MS record book: American Philosophical Society [March 30, 1757] When Franklin was preparing to... 2Philadelphia Post Office Accounts, 1757–1764 (Franklin Papers) MS account papers: American Philosophical Society In addition to the Philadelphia Post Office... 3Bill to the Proprietors, 30 March 1757 (Franklin Papers) ADS : Friends Library of the Society of Friends, London; also copy: Historical Society of...
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1Pennsylvania Assembly: Instructions to Benjamin Franklin, 31 March 1757 (Franklin Papers)
MS (fragment): American Philosophical Society On March 1, 1757, the Assembly named the same...
2To George Washington from William Fairfax, 31 March 1757 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday by the Return of Capt. Ouchterlony I had the Pleasure to enquire of Him concerning your...
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Washington as Public Land Surveyor
Washington created surveys and maps from his boyhood through the French and Indian Wars.
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