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Pecans, one of our more popular holiday nuts, were also a favorite of George Washington. According to his fellow officers, Washington often carried pecans in his pockets, and his diary reports that in 1774 he planted pecans about his home at Mount Vernon. Thomas Jefferson, too, was interested in pecans. He received the first recorded shipment of pecans from Louisiana to the north in 1799. Daniel Clark of New Orleans sent him a box of pecans and wrote, “I have presumed to send you a box of pecan meats. These are not, I understand, common in the Atlantic ports of the United States, though they grow everywhere on the banks of the Mississippi, from the Illinois River to the Sea. The tree grows to the usual size of forest trees and affords a delightful shade in summer. It might be well to cultivate it in Virginia for use and ornament.”
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