[Diary entry: 8 December 1788]

Monday 8th. Thermometer at 50 in the Morning—[ ] at Noon and [ ] at Night. Clear warm & pleasant with the Wind at South.

Went up to Alexandria on business of the Estate of Colo. Thos. Colvill to whom I am an Executor. Returned in the Evening accompanied by Colo. Henry Lee.

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

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 8 December 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0012-0008. [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. 431.]