[Diary entry: 15 December 1762]

15. 8 Ditto from Doeg Run.

Killed 28 Hogs viz.

from Muddy hole	11		weighg.	1012
from Doeg Run	11			1056
from Riverside	2			196
from Creek	4			471
				2,735
Whereof 16 were sold		1535
4 To Overs[ee]rs		315
8 for Family		885
				2,735
To that there has been for the Family this Year					435
					5312
					885
				In all	6,632

GW made the above entries in The Virginia Almanack for the current year, as was his custom. The 1762 edition, like many eighteenth-century almanacs, contained a printed section of proverbs and anecdotes, appearing in this case near the end of the volume. Of the 100 items there, GW marked 15 with an X, apparently indicating that he found them especially interesting or amusing.

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Title: [Diary entry: 15 December 1762]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 15 December 1762

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 15 December 1762],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-01-02-0007-0012-0003. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 1, 11 March 1748 – 13 November 1765, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 308.]