Journal of my journey over the mountains while surveying for Lord Thomas Fairfax, baron of Cameron, in the northern neck of Virginia, beyond the Blue Ridge, in 1747-8.

August 23^d 1750 Then survey'd for Maj'^r Law^r Washington of Fairfax County a certain tract of waste and ungranted Land in Frederick joining Worthington's Land and Beg: at the...

[Footnote 33: "Wappacomo," also spelled "Wappatomaka," was the Indian name for the South Branch of the Potomac. This stream courses through a fine valley from its head-springs i...

Then Surveyd for James Caudy[83] a certain Tract of waste Land Situate in Frederick County & on Cacapehon & bounded as followeth beg at a white Oak on the East Side the Creek a...

November 2^d 1749 Then Surveyd for Robert Denton a certain Tract of ungranted Land Situate in Augusta County and on the Lost River of Cacapehon and Bounded as followeth Beginnin...

[Footnote 46: Frederick county, Virginia, was formed by Act of Assembly in 1738, out of Orange county at the same time that Augusta county was created. The boundaries of Frederi...

Fryday 18^{th} We Travell'd up about 35 Miles to Thomas Barwicks on Potomack[19] where we found y. River so excessively high by Reason of y. Great Rains that had fallen up about...

[Footnote 3: George William Fairfax, eldest son of the Hon. William Fairfax, of "Belvoir," Va., was born in Nassau, New Providence, West Indies, in 1724. His father having been...

[Footnote 62: Honorable William Fairfax, of "Belvoir," Fairfax county, Va., was born 1691 in Yorkshire, England, where his father that year became high sheriff of the county. Hi...

The editor and his printer made every effort to reproduce Washington's journal precisely and without any corrections, noting in the Preface "with that literal exactness as to te...

Markers on surveys, 28, 39, 55, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 101, 109, 115, 120, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127.