Following are miscellaneous historical tidbits of the local area as excerpted from the John Harrower Journal and transcribed by Sue Gordon for a WPA report in 1937.
Martha and George Washington
Col Dangerfield and his wife entertained very lavishly. Mr. Harrower mentions a dinner party given to General and Mrs. Washington, John Parke Custis and his wife, Eleanor Calvert, Mrs. Alexander Spotswood, and Mrs. Dansie, Misses Washington and Dandridge.
He speaks of them being of the “highest rank and fortune of any in the Colony”.
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