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[Diary entry: 2 November 1768]

2. In Ditto. Dined at the Attorney Genls. with Lord Botetourt (the Govr.) & many other Gentlemen.

Botetourt described to Lord Hillsborough his dining out during his first week in Williamsburg: “I have been asked every day to dinner by the principal Gentlemen and am at present upon the very best terms with all. I like their stile exceedingly” (1 Nov. 1768, P.R.O., C.O.5/1346, f. 104).

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    “[Diary entry: 2 November 1768],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0003-0031-0002. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 106.]