[Diary entry: 5 April 1788]

Saturday 5th. Thermometer at 51 in the Morning—64 at Noon And 63 at Night. Clear and warm all day, but little wind and that at Easterly.

Visited all the Plantations. In the Neck, the same work as yesterday was going forward.

At Muddy hole the same also.

At Dogue run the same. The two plows at this place finished breaking up the turnip ground in No. 1 about dinner time yesterday & went afterwards to crossing in No. 2 for Barley.

At Frenchs the same work going forward and

At the Ferry also.

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: [Diary entry: 5 April 1788]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 5 April 1788

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 5 April 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0004-0005. [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. 296.]