Discover more about George Washington and Mount Vernon with this collection of primary source documents from the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and others.
Farming
- Agreement with Christopher Hardwick
- Cash Accounts - February 1766
- Fishing Weight New
- George Washington Letter To James Gildart
- George Washington Letter To William Pearce - August 17, 1794
- George Washington To Thomas Peter December 3, 1799
- George Washington to Robert Cary and Company, June 20, 1762
- George Washington's "Compend of Husbandry" Notes
- Partial survey of Ferry Plantation, with two crop rotation tables, 1787
- Thomas Hartley to George Washington, September 24, 1791
- Weaving Ledger New
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Charleston Mercury on December 2, 1853
In 1853, Louisa Bird Cunningham was traveling on the Potomac River and passed by Mount Vernon in the moonlight. Struck by its appearance, and fearing that it would soon be lost to the nation for lack ...
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George Washington to Martha Washington, June 18, 1775
Discovered tucked away in a desk drawer by one of Martha Washington’s granddaughters, this letter is one of two surviving letters written by George Washington to his wife just after he had accepted th...
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- Butter Cooler New
- Dentures
- Dress
- Eleanor Parke Custis to Elizabeth Bordley, 1796 New
- Fan Chair
- GR Jug
- George Corbin Washington to David English, August 14, 1817
- George Washington Parke Custis to Elizabeth Powel, 1788 New
- George Washington to Martha Washington, June 18, 1775
- George Washington to Martha Washington, October 1, 1782
- George Washington's Last Will and Testament, July 9, 1799
- Harpsichord
- Henry Knox to Clement Biddle, November 11, 1781
- John Parke Custis to Martha Washington, October 12, 1781
- Lawrence Washington
- Letter, Martha Washington to Fanny Bassett Washington, May 24, 1795
- Letter, Martha Washington to Fanny Bassett Washington, October 23, 1789
- Martha Washington Postscript to George Washington, March 30, 1767
- Martha Washington to Her Children, 1779 New
- Martha Washington's Obituary, June 9, 1802
- Receipt for Sewing Needles New
- Reply to invitation from Samuel and Elizabeth Powel, April 24, 1793
- Surveyor's Compass and Staff
- The Washington Family New
- The Washington Family Bible
- The Will of Martha Washington of Mount Vernon
- Washington Building Mount Vernon New
- Wine Bottle Seals
Presidency
Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
George Washington wrote this letter to "The People of the United States of America," which was published near the end of his second term as President. It was originally printed in David Claypole's Ame...
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- Copyright Act of 1790
- Elizabeth Willing Powel to George Washington New
- First Annual Address to Congress, January 8, 1790
- First Bank of the United States
- Food Supply Ledger, May 19-25, 1794
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- George Washington to Edward Carrington, May, 1, 1796
- Key to the Bastille New
- Letter: Thomas Paine to John Hustler New
- Militia Act of 1792
- Naturalization Acts of 1790 and 1795
- Neutrality Proclamation of 1793
- Pinckney's Treaty
- Proclamation of September 25, 1794
- Residence Act of 1790
- Slave Trade Act of 1794
- Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789
- The Jay Treaty
- The Judiciary Act of 1789
- The Naval Act of 1794
- To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island New
- United States Bill of Rights
- United States Constitution
- Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
- Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
- Washington's First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
- Washington's Second Inaugural Address
Revolutionary War
- Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown
- Circular to the States: George Washington to the States, June 8, 1783
- Continental Army Muster Roll, 1779
- Field Bedstead
- General Orders, December 27, 1776
- George Washington after the Battle of Princeton
- George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, March 19, 1783
- George Washington to James Ewing, December 14, 1776
- George Washington to Kitty Livingston New
- George Washington to Lund Washington, November 27, 1775
- George Washington to Martha Washington, June 23, 1775
- George Washington to Thomas McKean, October 16, 1781
- George Washington to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, January 8, 1777
- Map: Battle of Yorktown, French
- Map: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton
- Marquis de Lafayette to George Washington, September 8, 1781
- Newburgh Address: George Washington to Officers of the Army, March 15, 1783
- Smallpox Inoculation Letter
- The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
- The Independent Gazetteer, or The Chronicle of Freedom, May 3, 1783
- Treaty of Paris 1783 New
- Trunk Plate
- Virginia Gazette, Saturday, August 19, 1780
- Washington Crossing the Delaware
Slavery
- Anti-Slavery Token New
- Carpenter's report, 17 February 1793
- Denier Gauge
- Farm Report, 10-16 February 1793 New
- French's Slave Census, July 1799
- Garden Hoe
- George Washington on Ona Judge New
- George Washington's List of Enslaved People, 1799
- H.M.S. Savage List
- Marble
- Maryland Gazette Runaway Slave Advertisement, August 20, 1761
- Persimmon Seeds
- Punch Bowl
- Punch Bowl Pieces
- Spinning Report, 1793 New