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5/21/1798: "I then went up to Mrs. Washington. She is the same age as the G[enera]l…, small, with lively eyes, a gay air and extremely kind. She had on a gown, with an even hem, of stiff white cotton, fitting very tightly, or rather attached…

Diary kept by attorney Thomas Boylston Adams, son of John Adams, 26 Dec. 1798- 31 Aug. 1799 (with gaps), during a return voyage to the United States from Europe, at home in Quincy and Boston, Mass., and Philadelphia; and on a trip to Baltimore and…

July 1797: “[July 1797]…Upon my return to the house [Mount Vernon], I found Mrs. Washington and her granddaughter, Miss Custis, in the hall. I introduced myself to Mrs. Washington as a friend of her nephew, and she immediately entered into…

Abstract: Mount Vernon, the eighteenth-century plantation of George Washington, was home to a large, dispersed, and highly organized community of enslaves workers. Information available in the form of documentary evidence, archaeological data, and…