Wednesday 1st. Mercury at 64 in the Morning—68 at Noon and 72 at Night.
But little Wind and that from the Southward—day clear, warm & growing.
Govrs. Johnson & Lee, and the other Gentlemen with a Son of the first went away after Breakfast.
In the Afternoon Mr. Mathew Whiting, Mr. Wm. Booth, & a Doctr. Graham [came] here & stayed all Night.
Gov. Thomas Johnson had three sons: Thomas Jennings, James, and Joshua.
Matthew Whiting (d. 1810), formerly of Gloucester County, had moved to Snow Hill on Bull Run in Prince William County by about 1770. In 1782 he paid a tax on 4 whites and 73 slaves in Prince William. Whiting had been married to Warner Washington’s sister Hannah, and had by her an only son, Matthew, who was lost at sea during the Revolution (Whiting to GW, 10 Aug. 1786, DLC:GW; , 179–80).
, 135;Dr. Graham is probably either William Graham (1751–1821), son of John Graham of Dumfries and a surgeon’s mate in the 2nd Virginia Regiment during the Revolution, or George Graham, a member of the committee of safety and a surgeon in the Prince William County militia during the Revolution ( , 404; , 31, 33).