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George Washington notebook as a Virginia colonel
- Title
- George Washington notebook as a Virginia colonel, 1757.
- Author
- Washington, George, 1732-1799.
- Supplementary Content
- Collection guide and digital images
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | volume 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 23122 volume 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- George Washington papers.
- Description
- .21 linear foot (1 volume)
- Summary
- Notebook kept by George Washington, first President of the United States, while a colonel in charge of the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War, 1757. Memoranda concern military matters and consist of his outlines for letters to be written, orders to be given, and tasks to be accomplished. Letter recipients include the Governor of Virginia, the Speaker of the House of Burgesses, Colonel Stanwix, and others. Initial entries are dated, beginning 1757 June 7, correlating to his command at Fort Loudoun in Winchester, Virginia. Items were apparently cross-hatched once completed. Memoranda include a list of officers' commissions given out by him in May and July; a list of his wagon horses with their names, physical descriptions and drawn brand marks; and a list of things to be done in Williamsburg should he go there in November. Also in his handwriting is an undated recipe for making "small beer." The volume also contains items not written by him: an earlier roll of the artificers employed at the works at Winchester under the command of Captain William Peach[e]y, with an account of their lost time for July, 1756; an undated list of men drafted from the artificers to do garrison duty for a time, drafted on July 9; and an undated list of men drafted from various Virginia counties, sometimes noting their occupation and description of fitness for service.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Journals.
- Notebooks.
- Recipes.
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Digital images must be used in lieu of original volume.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available as digital images.
- Funding (note)
- Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
- Source (note)
- Purchase, 1918
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.
- Call Number
- MssCol 23122
- OCLC
- 900228455
- Author
- Washington, George, 1732-1799.
- Title
- George Washington notebook as a Virginia colonel, 1757.
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.Digital images must be used in lieu of original volume.
- Additional Formats
- Available as digital images.
- Funding
- Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Virginia Colonial Militia Memorandum Book, April-May, 1756; George Washington Papers; Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Source
- Purchase, 1918
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Soldiers.
- Added Author
- George Washington papers.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 23122