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[Diary entry: 19 February 1760] [Diaries 1:243]+
[Diary entry: 23 February 1760] [Diaries 1:245]+
[Diary entry: 10 March 1760] [Diaries 1:252]+
[Diary entry: 11 March 1760] [Diaries 1:253]+
[Diary entry: 27 March 1760] [Diaries 1:258]+
[Diary entry: 29 March 1760] [Diaries 1:259]+
[Diary entry: 9 August 1785] [Diaries 4:180]+
[Diary entry: 21 September 1785] [Diaries 4:196]
[Diary entry: 12 April 1786] [Diaries 4:310]+
[Diary entry: 14 April 1786] [Diaries 4:311]+
[Diary entry: 15 June 1786] [Diaries 4:348]+
[Diary entry: 3 August 1786] [Diaries 5:20]+
[Diary entry: 11 August 1788] [Diaries 5:377]+
To Charles Dick, 20 September 1755 [Colonial Series 2:56]+
To Andrew Lewis, 8 October 1755 [Colonial Series 2:87]+
Orders, 17 October 1755 [Colonial Series 2:122]+
To Adam Stephen, 29 October 1755 [Colonial Series 2:147]
To Thomas Walker, 10 January 1756 [Colonial Series 2:270]
From Robert Orme, 2 March 1756 [Colonial Series 2:322]+
From Major Christopher French, 3 September 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 1:411]
To Nicholas Cooke, 6 September 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 1:422]+
To John Hancock, 11 November 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 2:350]
From John Holt, 20 November 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 2:407]+
From Lund Washington, 24 November 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 2:423]
From the Stonington Committee of Safety, 1 December 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 2:468]+
From Major General Philip Schuyler, 9 December 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 2:524]+
From Captain Richard Dodge, 16 December 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 2:557]+
To William Whipple, 27 January 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 3:204]+
From Lund Washington, 31 January 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 3:231]
From Major General Philip Schuyler, 9–10 March 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 3:443]
From Richard Henry Lee, 13 March 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 3:466]+
Orders and Instructions for Colonel Thomas Mifflin, 24 March 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 3:528]+
From Major General Artemas Ward, 12 May 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 4:284]+
From Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 June 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 4:534]
From the Massachusetts General Court, 2 July 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:183]+
From Major General Philip Schuyler, 6 August 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:585]
From Nathaniel Woodhull, 8 August 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:644]+
General Orders, 13 August 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:1]
General Orders, 6 September 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:229]
To John Hancock, 8 September 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:253]
To Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, 11 September 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:285]
From Major General William Heath, 19 September 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:343]+
General Orders, 20 September 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:349]
To John Hancock, 22 September 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:369]+
From the Massachusetts General Court, 24 September 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:393]+
General Orders, 26 September 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:405]
Enclosure, 4 October 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:467]+
To John Hancock, 11–13 October 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:536]+
From Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 11 October 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:544]+
From Colonel Jacob Bayley, 15 October 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:572]+
To Colonel Jacob Bayley, 17 October 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:585]+
From Colonel Rufus Putnam, 19 November 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 7:189]
From Brigadier General Philemon Dickinson, 20 February 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:377]+
From Brigadier General Philemon Dickinson, 26 February 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:447]+
From Colonel Elisha Sheldon, 13 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:153]+
From Major General Joseph Spencer, 14 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:167]
From Major General Israel Putnam, 1 June 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:585]+
General Orders, 4 June 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:603]+
General Orders, 10 June 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:660]+
Order of March, 14 June 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 10:35]
To Major General Du Coudray, 13 July 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 10:270]
To Brigadier General William Smallwood, 18 July 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 10:330]+
To William Livingston, 1 September 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 11:113]
From Major General Nathanael Greene, 2 September 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 11:126]+
From Joseph Reed, 18 September 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 11:265]+
From Major General John Armstrong, 26 December 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 13:3]
From Major Peter Scull, 27 December 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 13:23]+
From Major John Clark, Jr., 30 December 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 13:65]+
From Trenton and Mercer County Magistrates, 2 January 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:123]
To Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 14 January 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:240]+
From Colonel Walter Stewart, 18 January 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:277]
To Major General Israel Putnam, 22 January 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:317]+
To Major Jacob Morris, 27 January 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:368]+
To Henry Laurens, 31 January 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:421]+
General Orders, 2 February 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:440]+
From General William Howe, 21 February 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:623]
From Major General John Sullivan, 2 March 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:42]+
From Brigadier General John Lacey, Jr., 11 March 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:145]+
To Major General Horatio Gates, 20 March 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:237]
From Daniel Kemper, 26 March 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:322]+
From General William Howe, 3 April 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:390]+
General Orders, 6 April 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:410]+
From Brigadier General Henry Knox, 23 April 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:597]
To Colonel George Baylor, 1 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:2]
To Major General Horatio Gates, 2 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:14]+
To Major General Benjamin Lincoln, 7 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:74]+
To Major General Lafayette, 18 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:152]
From Brigadier General James Potter, 18 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:159]+
To Colonel Stephen Moylan, 24 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:212]+
From Major General Philip Schuyler, 29 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:264]+
From Major General Charles Lee, 30 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:276]+
To Brigadier General William Smallwood, 30 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:278]+
From Major Alexander Clough, 2 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:300]+
From Colonel Theodorick Bland, 5 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:322]+
From Brigadier General William Maxwell, 5–7 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:326]
General Orders, 6 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:332]+
From Brigadier General William Smallwood, 7 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:346]
From Major General Horatio Gates, 9 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:366]+
From Timothy Pickering, 9 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:371]+
From Colonel David Mason, 13 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:392]+
From Brigadier General William Maxwell, 14 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:396]
To Major General Philemon Dickinson, 15 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:399]+
General Orders, 16 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:412]+
From John Parke Custis, 17 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:419]+
Orders for March from Valley Forge, 17 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:425]
From Brigadier General John Cadwalader, 18 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:437]+
From Major General Nathanael Greene, 18 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:442]
To James Mease, 18 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:459]+
From Major General Philemon Dickinson, 20 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:480]+
To Major General Benedict Arnold, 21 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:487]+
From Major General Philemon Dickinson, 23 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:511]+
Council of War, 24 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:522]+
From Major General Horatio Gates, 24 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:525]+
From Major General Lafayette, 24 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:530]+
From Brigadier General William Maxwell, 25 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:543]+
From Major General Philemon Dickinson, 26 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:547]+
To Major General Horatio Gates, 27 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:564]+
From Major General Philemon Dickinson, 28 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:575]
To Major General Charles Lee, 30 June 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:598]+
From Brigadier General William Maxwell, 1 July 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:9]+
General Orders, 3 August 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:224]
To Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., 20 August 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:342]+
General Orders, 23 August 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:356]+
From Baron de Knobelauch, 2 September 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:476]+
From a Board of Officers, 10 September 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:551]
From Henry Laurens, 12 September 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:590]+
From Colonel Ichabod Alden, 4 November 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:38]
To Major John Bigelow, 29 November 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:331]+
From Major General Philip Schuyler, 27 December 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:518]+
From Major Henry Harnage, 27 March 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 19:623]
From Robert Walker, 30 July 1789 [Presidential Series 3:357]+
Circular on the State of American Agriculture, 25 August 1791 [Presidential Series 8:453]
To d'Estaing, 7 September 1791 [Presidential Series 8:506]+
Enclosure, 17 January 1792 [Presidential Series 9:461]
To Arthur Young, 18–21 June 1792 [Presidential Series 10:464]
To Anthony Whitting, 11 November 1792 [Presidential Series 11:373]
To Anthony Whitting, 14 November 1792 [Presidential Series 11:389]+
To Anthony Whitting, 2 December 1792 [Presidential Series 11:461]
To Anthony Whitting, 9 December 1792 [Presidential Series 11:487]
From Anthony Whitting, 16 January 1793 [Presidential Series 12:12]
From Arthur Young, 17 January 1793 [Presidential Series 12:25]
To George Augustine Washington, 27 January 1793 [Presidential Series 12:54]+
To Anthony Whitting, 24 February 1793 [Presidential Series 12:214]
To Robert Lewis, 7 March 1793 [Presidential Series 12:280]+
To Anthony Whitting, 24 March 1793 [Presidential Series 12:374]
From Robert Lewis, 26 March 1793 [letter not found] [Presidential Series 12:383]+
From Tobias Lear, 8 April 1793 [Presidential Series 12:438]+
To Anthony Whitting, 28 April 1793 [Presidential Series 12:491]
To Anthony Whitting, 5 May 1793 [Presidential Series 12:527]
To Anthony Whitting, 12 May 1793 [Presidential Series 12:568]
To Anthony Whitting, 26 May 1793 [Presidential Series 12:635]
From James Anderson, 8 March 1797 [Retirement Series 1:21]
Farm Reports, 2–8 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:62]
Farm Reports, 2–8 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:63]
Farm Reports, 2–8 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:66]+
Farm Reports, 9–15 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:85]
Farm Reports, 9–15 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:86]
Farm Reports, 9–15 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:87]
Farm Reports, 9–15 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:89]
From George Lewis, 15 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:98]+
Farm Reports, 16–22 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:99]
Farm Reports, 16–22 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:100]
Farm Reports, 16–22 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:102]
From Elizabeth Foote Washington, 22 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:110]+
Farm Reports, 23–29 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:111]
Farm Reports, 23–29 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:112]
Farm Reports, 23–29 April 1797 [Retirement Series 1:114]+
To Albin Rawlins, 31 January 1798 [Retirement Series 2:63]+
From James Anderson, 19 June 1798 [Retirement Series 2:344]
From James Anderson, 19 June 1798 [Retirement Series 2:346]
To James Anderson, 1 November 1798 [Retirement Series 3:168]+
To James Anderson, 3 November 1798 [Retirement Series 3:175]+
From Lawrence Lewis, 21 November 1798 [Retirement Series 3:215]
From Alexander Spotswood, 24 November 1798 [Retirement Series 3:219]
From Alexander Spotswood, 24 November 1798 [Retirement Series 3:220]+
To James McHenry, 6 January 1799 [Retirement Series 3:308]+
To Tobias Lear, 18 March 1799 [Retirement Series 3:425]+
To James Welch, 7 April 1799 [Retirement Series 3:472]+
To Clement Biddle, 28 April 1799 [Retirement Series 4:29]+
To Elias Boudinot, 22 June 1799 [Retirement Series 4:142]+
From James Anderson, 23 June 1799 [Retirement Series 4:145]
From James Anderson, 23 June 1799 [Retirement Series 4:147]
From James Anderson, 23 June 1799 [Retirement Series 4:148]
From James Anderson, 23 June 1799 [Retirement Series 4:149]+
From James McHenry, 28 June 1799 [Retirement Series 4:165]+
From William Thornton, 3 July 1799 [Retirement Series 4:173]+
To Lawrence Lewis, 28 September 1799 [Retirement Series 4:325]
Enclosure: Schedule of Property, 9 July 1799 [Retirement Series 4:519]
– abandoned [1 reference]
– accounts [1 reference]
– advertisements for strayed horses [2 references]
– allocation of [7 references]
– allotment of [4 references]
– American [2 references + 61 subentries]
– and baggage [1 reference]
– and British agriculture [1 reference]
– and cavalry troops [3 references]
– and evacuation of dogs [1 reference]
– and express riding [1 reference]
– and German stable boys [1 reference]
– and GW [27 references]
– and medicine [1 reference]
– and militia [1 reference]
– and stagecoaches [1 reference]
– and Thomas Jefferson [1 reference]
– “an English colt” [1 reference]
– artillery horses [1 reference]
– as a reward to George Baylor [1 reference]
– as draft animals [1 reference]
– as food [1 reference]
– as payment [5 references]
– as present from GW [1 reference]
– assignment of [4 references]
– at Lancaster, Pa. [1 reference]
– at Mount Vernon [14 references]
– at Valley Forge [2 references]
– baggage horses [1 reference]
– bat horses [7 references]
– bequeathal of [1 reference]
– blacksmiths [2 references]
– Blueskin [2 references + 1 subentry]
– boarded by GW's overseer [1 reference]
– boarding of [3 references]
– bought and sold [7 references]
– branding [4 references]
– breeding [33 references]
– British [21 references + 15 subentries]
– Canadian [1 reference]
– captured and sold [1 reference]
– captured by Americans [5 references]
– captured by Loyalists [1 reference]
– capture of [21 references]
– care and feeding of [44 references]
– carriage horses [1 reference]
– carry clothes [1 reference]
– cavalry [5 references]
– Charles Lee's mare [1 reference]
– Charles Willson Peale's horse [1 reference]
– collected [1 reference]
– collection and movement of [4 references]
– color of [3 references]
– comparison of American and British [1 reference]
– compensation for one killed [1 reference]
– complaints about [1 reference]
– condition and care [36 references + 4 subentries]
– consumption of hay [2 references]
– costs of keeping [1 reference]
– criteria for ownership of horses [1 reference]
– Custis holdings of [1 reference]
– dead [5 references]
– difficulty in crossing swamp [1 reference]
– disposal of carcasses [2 references]
– dispatched [15 references]
– distemper [1 reference]
– distribution of [5 references]
– draw sledge [1 reference]
– dressing of [1 reference]
– embarked on ships [2 references]
– equipment and supplies for [7 references + 2 subentries]
– escape of [1 reference]
– exchange of [1 reference]
– exportation permitted [1 reference]
– fatigue of [3 references]
– feeding of [1 reference]
– ferriage of [3 references]
– firing from horseback [1 reference]
– fodder for [1 reference]
– forage for [39 references]
– forage money allowed light horse [1 reference]
– for American patrols [1 reference]
– for American spies [2 references]
– for artillery [28 references]
– for artillery and wagons [13 references]
– for cavalry [20 references]
– for express riders [2 references]
– for foraging [1 reference]
– for GW [12 references]
– for Indians [10 references]
– for light horse [4 references]
– for Martha Washington [3 references]
– for messengers [1 reference]
– for officers [5 references]
– for outposts [7 references]
– for spies [1 reference]
– for U.S. Army [1 reference]
– for wagons [4 references]
– from Europe [1 reference]
– from Kentucky [1 reference]
– from Pennsylvania [1 reference]
– furnishing of [1 reference]
– gift to GW [2 references]
– gift to Lafayette [2 references]
– guarded [1 reference]
– GW riding for health [1 reference]
– GW's [45 references]
– GW's dealings with [3 references]
– hair needed to stuff saddles [1 reference]
– harness and saddles [5 references]
– health of [2 references]
– high appraisals of [1 reference]
– hiring of [3 references]
– illness of [4 references]
– impressment and confiscation of [48 references]
– in agriculture [9 references]
– in Caroline County, Va. [1 reference]
– in construction [3 references]
– in Continental army [11 subentries]
– Indian [1 reference]
– injury to [1 reference]
– in military [9 references]
– in New Hampshire [1 reference]
– in Pennsylvania [1 reference]
– in winter quarters [3 references]
– Jay's Spanish stallion [1 reference]
– killed [4 references]
– king's [2 references]
– king's horses on South Branch [1 reference]
– left in Boston [2 references]
– Le Mayeur's mares [1 reference]
– Leonidas [3 references]
– lists of [18 references]
– loaned [1 reference]
– loss of [5 references]
– lost and found [2 references]
– Loyalist [1 subentry]
– Magnolia (Magnolio) [16 references + 9 subentries]
– mares [5 references]
– mares for Mount Vernon [2 references]
– Martha Washington's [1 reference]
– miller's [1 reference]
– mistreatment of [3 references]
– misuse of [1 reference]
– movement of British horses [2 references]
– need for [5 references]
– need refreshment [1 reference]
– Nelson [2 references]
– not to be brought off [1 reference]
– number allowed for light horse [1 reference]
– numbers at Mount Vernon [1 reference]
– of aides-de-camp [1 reference]
– of Connecticut militia [1 reference]
– offered at stud [1 reference]
– offered for sale [1 reference]
– officers' [2 references]
– of James Madison [1 reference]
– of light horse troop [1 reference]
– of Loyalists and deserters [2 references]
– of Tobias Lear [2 references]
– on bad roads [1 reference]
– on Josiah Harmar expedition [4 references]
– on southern tour [7 references]
– on western journey [11 references]
– orders regarding [2 references]
– ownership disputed [1 reference]
– packhorses [30 references]
– pasturage [1 reference]
– paths for [1 reference]
– plan to ease fatigue of [1 reference]
– plowing with [5 references]
– poor condition of [1 reference]
– poor quality of [2 references]
– possibly stolen from GW [4 references]
– preparation of [1 reference]
– prices of [13 references]
– procurement [85 references]
– purchased by GW [2 references]
– purchase of [35 references]
– Quakers' horses [1 reference]
– quartering of [3 references]
– racing of [29 references + 8 subentries]
– recovered from British [1 reference]
– regulations on [20 references]
– removal and concealment of [5 references]
– removal from coastal areas [9 references]
– returns of [13 references]
– ridden by slaves [1 reference]
– sale of [3 references]
– salt for [1 reference]
– Sampson [7 references]
– scrape the snow off grass [1 reference]
– securing and removal of [5 references]
– seized from Loyalists [1 reference]
– seizure or impressment of [16 references]
– sent from camp [2 references]
– sent to camp [2 references]
– shod with silver horseshoes [1 reference]
– shoeing of [7 references]
– shortages of [35 references]
– sick and lame [2 references]
– stables and stalls for [9 references]
– stolen [2 references]
– stolen by Indians [7 references]
– strayed [2 references]
– stray horses [1 reference]
– subsistence money for [1 reference]
– substituted [1 reference]
– superiority of frontier horses [1 reference]
– tack and saddlery [48 references]
– taken by deserters [1 reference]
– taxes on [2 references]
– teams [6 references + 2 subentries]
– theft of [10 references]
– to pursue deserters [1 reference]
– trading of [1 reference]
– training of [11 references]
– transport artillery [6 references]
– transportation of [11 references]
– transportation of from abroad [1 reference]
– travel with [3 references]
– unfit for service [15 references]
– used for expresses [1 reference]
– used in battle [4 references]
– used in executions [1 reference]
– used to tread wheat [2 references]
– used to work mills [1 reference]
– wagon horses [7 references]
– with grass guard [1 reference]
– wounded [4 references]
See also Custis estate: settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis estate