[Diary entry: 24 January 1798]

24. Wind at No. Wt. in the morning—at noon 28 and at Night 22. Clear all day & afterno[o]n the wind was Southerly. Mr. Jno. Hopkins & Mr. Hodgden came to dinner.

mr. jno. hopkins: probably John Hopkins (c.1757–1827), commissioner of continental loans for the state of Virginia (1780–c.1794) and a merchant and banker of Richmond. In 1806, after moving to Alexandria, Hopkins married Cornelia Lee (1780–1815), a daughter of William Lee of Greenspring.

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Title: [Diary entry: 24 January 1798]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 24 January 1798

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 24 January 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0001-0024. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, pp. 278–279.]