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From George Washington to Samuel Powel, June 1787

To Samuel Powel

[c.June 1787]

Genl Washington presents his Compliments to Mr Powell and would, with much pleasure, dine with him on Thursday next, had he not been previously engaged to Mr Rutledge.

AL, ViMtvL.

GW indicates in his diary while in Philadelphia the person or persons with whom he had dinner on every Thursday except one, and John Rutledge is not named. On the one Thursday, 7 June, that GW did not have his dinner at someone’s house, he “Dined with a Club of Convention Members at the Indian Queen” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 5:166).

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    From George Washington to Samuel Powel, June 1787
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    “From George Washington to Samuel Powel, June 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-05-02-0224. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 5, 1 February 1787 – 31 December 1787, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, p. 239.]

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