[Diary entry: 8 April 1788]

Tuesday 8th. Thermometer at 46 in the Morning—50 at Noon and 50 at Night. Wind Easterly all day. Besides the Rain which fell in the Night it was Showery all day. In the course therefore of the 24 hours much rain had fallen.

About 10 Oclock, in company with Colo. Humphreys, Mrs. Washington Harriott Washington and Washington Custis I set of for Abingdon—where we dined and stayed all Night.

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Title: [Diary entry: 8 April 1788]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 8 April 1788

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 8 April 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0004-0008. [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. 298.]