[Diary entry: 5 May 1769]

5. Dined at the Governors and supped at Mr. Carters.

Robert Carter (1728–1804) of Nomini Hall in Westmoreland County, a grandson of Robert “King” Carter, had become a member of the council in 1758 and now lived in a handsome town house next to the Governor’s Palace. He returned to live at Nomini Hall in 1771 but remained on the council until the Revolution (morton description begins Louis Morton. Robert Carter of Nomini Hall: A Virginia Tobacco Planter of the Eighteenth Century. Williamsburg, Va., 1941. description ends , 42–45).

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Title: [Diary entry: 5 May 1769]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 5 May 1769

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 5 May 1769],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0004-0013-0005. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 148.]