Tuesday 18th. Finished what private business I had to do in the City this forenoon. Took my leave of those families in wch. I had been most intimate. Dined early at Mr. Morris’s with whom & Mr. Gouvr. Morris I parted at Grays ferry and reached Chester in Company with Mr. Blair who I invited to a seat in my Carriage ’till we should reach Mount Vernon.
[Diary entry: 18 September 1787]
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- Washington, George
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- 18 September 1787
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- Year: At the Constitutional Convention
- Month: September. [1787]
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- “[Diary entry: 18 September 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0002-0009-0018. [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, pp. 185–186.]