1[Diary entry: 29 November 1786] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 29th. Mercury at 17 in the Morning—23 at Noon and 22 at Night. Wind Northerly and rather fresh in the forenoon and about So. Et. afterwards—very raw and cold all day with appears. of Snow. Towards Night a mixture of it and hail fell but not enough to cover the ground. Rid to the Plantations at the Ferry, Dogue run, and Muddy hole and to the Ditchers. At the first G. Washington...
2From George Washington to James McHenry, 29 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 18th by the Packet, & 19th by the Post, are both at hand—The Birds were landed yesterday. A Patridge died on the passage. If Monsr Campion’s information is to be depended on, he had no letter from the Marquis de la Fayette or any other character in France, for me; nothing confidential therefore could have been disclosed by the loss of his pocket book, unless it was...