[Diary entry: 10 January 1787]

Wedneday 10th. Mercury at 33 in the Morning—38 at Noon and 37 at Night.

Raining in the Morning, and lowering, & sometimes mizzling the rest of the day with the wind at No. Et.

Mrs. Stuart & her Children and Miss Allan went away after breakfast.

Just before Dinner Mr. Brindley Manager of the Susquehanna Works & his Son in law came on their way to South Carolina.

About the sametime I recd. by express the acct. of the sudden death (by a fit of the Gout in the head) of my beloved Brother Colo. Jno. Auge. Washington.

At home all day.

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Title: [Diary entry: 10 January 1787]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 10 January 1787

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 10 January 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0002-0001-0010. [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. 92–93.]