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[Diary entry: 23 January 1789]

Friday 23d. Thermometer at 32 in the Morning—38 at Noon and 37 at Night. Clear & calm in the Morning & continued to be so & very pleasant all day.

Rid to the Ferry & French’s Plantations and to Dogue Run & Muddy hole.

At the first began to ditch across the New Meadow to inclose or rather seperate fields No. 1 & 2.

At Dogue run the People were fencing in field No. 7.

Doctr. Stuart came here to Dinner & stayed all Night.

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    23 January 1789

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    “[Diary entry: 23 January 1789],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0013-0023. [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. 442.]