March 7th
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“Went up to Alexandria to a Barbicue and stayed all Night.”
THE DIARIES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
Where & how my time is spent.
1769
MAY
23. Mr. Addison and Mr. Boucher went away. At home my self all day
24. At home all day. Mr. Magowan went down to Dumfries.
25. Rid to Muddy hole, Doeg Run, and Mill and returnd to Dinner.*
26. Rid into the Neck, and from thence went up to a Race at Cameron.**
27. Went up to Alexandria to a Barbicue*** and stayed all Night.
28. Returnd home early in the Morning and went to Pohick Church, returning to Dinner.
The Republican Court
Artist: Daniel Huntington. Brooklyn Museum
SEPTEMBER
16. Mr. Robt. Alexander came before Sun Rise this morning and we all went a fox huntg.**** Started one and Run him into a hollow tree in an hour and 20 minutes, Chasd him in the afternn. and killd in an h1/2.
17. At home all day. Mr. Harrison went away in the morning before breakfast; so did Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Grayson went away in the afternoon.
18. Went to Court at Alexandria and returnd home in the Evening.
19. Went to Court again to day. Stayd all Night and went to see slight of hand performd.
20. Returnd home early this morning by a Messenger from Mrs. Washington. Mr. George Alexander dined here and went away in the afternoon.
21. Captn. Posey calld here in the Morng. and we went to a Vestry. Upon my return found Mr. B. Fairfax and Mr. P. Wagener here.
October
5. Went after Blew Wings***** with Humphrey Peake, killd 3 and returnd by Muddy hole.
* Washington’s farms and grist mill
** Washington is known to have attended both horse and boat races.
*** similar to today’s meaning: a picnic with meat cooked outdoors on an open fire — HT
**** Washington helped develop the American Foxhound breed. — MVLA5. In a 1 September 1785 letter to Comte d’Oilliamson he wrote: “I have just received seven very fine Hounds, for which, the Marqs. de la Fayette informs me, I am indebted to your goodness. I know not in what terms to acknowledge my gratitude for the obligation, but pray you to be assured that I have a due sense of the honor; and feel in a particular manner the force of the goodness of Madame la Comptesse, to whom the Marqs. adds, I am beholden for a favorite hound. I pray you to offer my best respects, and to make my acknowledgment of this favor, acceptable to her: at the sametime I beg you to assure her that her favorite shall not suffer under my care, but become the object of my particular attention.”
***** ducks
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