[Diary entry: 5 July 1788]

Saturday 5th. Thermometer at 70 in the Morning—79 at Noon and 74 at Night. Morning pure, and day clear till evening when there were great appearances of Rain but little or none fell here—The body of the cloud passing to the Southward of us.

Doctr. Stuart, after breakfast left this and Colo. Humphreys, who went with Mrs. Stuart to Abingdon on Wednesday returned home.

I remained at home all day with Mr. Madison.

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Title: [Diary entry: 5 July 1788]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 5 July 1788

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 5 July 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0007-0005. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5, 1 July 1786 – 31 December 1789, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 357.]