In the autumn of 1751, at the age of nineteen, George Washington sailed with his older half-brother Lawrence from Virginia to the Caribbean island of Barbados - the one and only time that the future Revolutionary War hero and president would leave the shores of continental North America. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative edition of Washington's diaries of the journey yet published.

"This edition has been prepared by the staff of The Washington Papers, sponsored by The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and the University of Virginia."