Wednesday 6th. Last Night was so Intolerably smoaky that we were obliged all hands to leave the Tent to the Mercy of the Wind and Fire this day was attended by our aforesd. Company untill about 12 oClock when we finish’d we travell’d down the Branch to Henry Vanmetris’s. On our Journey was catch’d in a very heavy Rain. We got under a Straw House untill the Worst of it was over & then continued our Journy.
[Diary entry: 6 April 1748]
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- Washington, George
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- 6 April 1748
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- Year: Surveying for Lord Fairfax, 1748
- Month: [April 1748]
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- “[Diary entry: 6 April 1748],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-01-02-0001-0003-0006. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 1, 11 March 1748 – 13 November 1765, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, pp. 18–19.]