On This Day 250 Years Ago
March 29, 1775
Washington arrives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, at about 11 a.m., observing “severe frost” on his journey. He dines with his brother-in-law, Colonel Fielding Lewis, and spends the evening at George Weedon’s tavern, known as a hub for revolutionary sentiment in the area. A traveling Englishman once remarked that Weedon was "very active and zealous in blowing the flames of sedition."
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