[Diary entry: 6 February 1788]

Wednesday 6th. Mercury in the Ball all day and the weather exceeding cold but not so piercing as yesterday. In the Morning the Wind was at East. Afterwards it was abt. So. Wt.

Rid out, but finding the cold disagreeable, I returned. Hands of all the places (except the Men) working in the New ground at the Mann. House.

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Title: [Diary entry: 6 February 1788]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 6 February 1788

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 6 February 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0002-0006. [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. 273.]