George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 31 August 1787]

Friday 31st. In Convention. Dined at Mr. Morris’s and with a Party went to Lansdale & drank Tea with Mr. & Mrs. Penn.

lansdale: Lansdowne. John Penn’s wife, Ann Allen Penn, was the daughter of William Allen, the former chief justice of Pennsylvania.

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    Washington, George
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    31 August 1787

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    “[Diary entry: 31 August 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0002-0008-0031. [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. 182.]