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Topic: The American Revolution and Constitution

EXTRACTS FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE. - George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757) [1889]

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The Writings of George Washington, collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889-1893). Vol. I (1748-1757).

Part of: The Writings of George Washington, 14 vols.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE.

February 12, 1756. Last week Colonel Washington arrived here from Virginia.

February 19. Last week Colonel Washington set out from this city for New York.1

February 26. New York, February 23. Colonel Washington, of and from Virginia, but last from Philadelphia, left this city for Boston on Friday last, there ’tis thought, to consult with General Shirley, measures proper to be taken with several tribes of Indians to the southward, and particularly the Cherokees, some hundreds of whom, from the back parts of the two Carolinas, it is reported, have assured the Western Governments of their coming in, and firmly adhering to the interest of the English, in opposition to the French.2

March 11. Boston, March 1. Last Friday came to this Town, from Virginia, the Hon. Colonel Washington.3

March 18. Yesterday Colonel George Washington arrived here [Philadelphia] from the northward.

[1 ]The New York Mercury (February 16th) showed that Washington reached New York on the 15th.

[2 ]Dinwiddie had given Washington a letter of introduction to Oliver De Lancey.

[3 ]“When Washington visited Boston in February 1756, to consult General Shirley, he stopped at Cromwell’s Head Tavern, on School Street, just above the old corner. During his visit of ten days he attended the sessions of the Legislature, and accepted the hospitality of several prominent citizens.”—Porter, Rambles in Old Boston, 384.