They enjoyed the hospitality of the Beefsteak and Tripe Club, which seems to have been the fashionable club.

On one occasion, Washington was taken to the play to see the "Tragedy of George Barnwell." This may have been the first time that he went to the theatre.

He refers to it in his journal with his habitual caution: Was treated with a play ticket by Mr.Carter to see the Tragedy of George Barnwell acted: the character of Barnwell and several others was said to be well perform'd there was Musick a Dapted and regularly conducted by Mr.
But Lawrence Washington's consumption did not improve: he grew homesick and pined for his wife and for Mount Vernon.

The physicians had recommended him to spend a full year at Barbados, in order to give the climate and the regimen there a fair trial, but he could not endure it so long, and he sailed from there to Bermuda, whence he shortly returned to Virginia and Mount Vernon.

George, meanwhile, had also gone back to Virginia, sailing December 22, 1751, and arriving February 1, 1752.