[Diary entry: 18 March 1787]

Sunday 18th. Mercury at 44 in the Morning—62 at Noon and 63 at Night.

A thick fog in the early part of the Morning and lowering till towards Noon—Clear afterwards till evening when the Sun set in a bank—Wind at So. Et. till Night when it appeared to be at So. West. The day was warm & pleasant. Wind fresh in the Night.

A Mr. Black from New York, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Porter, Mr. Monshur, Mr. Murray, & Mr. Clanagan of Alexandria dined here & returned in the Evening.

mr. black: may be John Blagge, who sailed as a supercargo between New York and Alexandria. mr. clanagan: probably John McClanaghan (McClenahan), who settled as a merchant in Alexandria and later married Ann (Nancy) McCarty, youngest daughter of Col. Daniel McCarty of Mount Air (O’BRIEN description begins Michael J. O’Brien. George Washington’s Associations with the Irish. New York, 1937. description ends , 121; Fairfax County Deeds, Q–1, 226, Vi Microfilm).

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Title: [Diary entry: 18 March 1787]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 18 March 1787

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 18 March 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0002-0003-0018. [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. 118.]