[Diary entry: 17 March 1798]

17. Morning cloudy—Wind at East & Mer. at 35. Clear afterwards with but little wind and that Easterly. Mer. 44 at Night & 49 at highest. Mr. Snow of Massachusetts dined here & returned to Alexa.

Mr. Snow is probably Gideon Snow, who settled in Boston, Mass. (see entry for 17 Sept. 1786).

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: [Diary entry: 17 March 1798]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 17 March 1798

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 17 March 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0003-0017. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 286.]