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[Diary entry: 5 January 1785]

Wednesday 5th. The Doctr. in vain attempted my ferry & being disappointed went to George Town with a view of crossing on the Ice.

Colo. Blackburn returned this Evening from Alexandria.

Wind Northwardly & cold.

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    5 January 1785

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    “[Diary entry: 5 January 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0002-0001-0005. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 4, 1 September 1784 – 30 June 1786, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 73.]