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Manuscripts
Field notes for survey of Mount Vernon :
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- Description
- Pages from a book of field notes of a survey of Mount Vernon, including Ferry Plantation, Muddy Hole farm, and River farm. With attached typed note regarding provenance.
- Production date
- probably 1784-1789.
- Call number
- mssHM 74696
- Provenance
- Provenance unknown. In library as of 2011. The manuscript was among the Washington items offered by the Philadelphia auction house Thomas Birch's Sons in December 1890 (Catalog No. 657, Lot 21). The sale was part of the final settlement of the estate of the widow of Lorenzo Lewis (1803-1847), Washington's grandnephew. According to a typewritten note attached to the manuscript and signed by H.D.L. Lewis, the executor of the estate, the lot was purchased by "Messrs. Mitchell of 830 Broadway, N.Y."
