1[Diary entry: 27 August 1788] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 27th. Thermometer at 70 in the Morning—80 at Noon and 80 at Night. Clear Morning with the Wind at No. West—but calm, and warm afterwards. Visited the Plantations at the Ferry, Frenchs, Dogue run and Muddy hole. At the first the same work precisely, as yesterday. At Frenchs the same till the Plows finished breaking up the balks in the Corn—when trying, & finding the Buck Wheat which...