[Diary entry: 31 October 1786]

Tuesday 31st. Mercury at 41 in the Morning—42 at Noon and 42 at Night.

Wind pretty fresh at No. West in the Morning but cloudy which it continued to be through the day with Mists in the afternoon and rain at Night, the wind getting round to No. Et.

After breakfast I left Govr. Smallwoods & got home to dinner. Attempted to cross at the Widow Chapmans in order to pay Colo. Mason a visit but could not get over.

Constantia Pearson Chapman (c.1714–c.1791) was the daughter of Capt. Simon Pearson (d. c.1733) of Stafford County, Va., and the widow of Nathaniel Chapman of Charles County, Md.

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Title: [Diary entry: 31 October 1786]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 31 October 1786

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 31 October 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0001-0004-0031. [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. 61.]