On this day 250 years ago, George Washington arrived in Williamsburg for a sojourn of more than a month. He had dinner in the Raleigh Tavern. During his previous visit to Williamsburg in March, Washington had participated in the House of Burgesses’ formation of Virginia’s Committee of Correspondence, and on his next visit in May 1774 he was again at Raleigh Tavern when the members of the Virginia Assembly defiantly reconvened there after being dissolved by Governor Dunmore. Washington’s time in Williamsburg from October to December 1773 seems to have been focused on his family’s personal affairs. But he did dine several times with Virginia Speaker Peyton Randolph, soon to be another of America’s Founding Fathers, and twice with Governor Dunmore, who would soon be the enemy as the war began.

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