[Diary entry: 13 May 1769]

13. Dined at Mrs. Campbells and went over to Gloucester to Colo. W. Lewis’s afterwards.

Col. Warner Lewis (b. 1720), son of Col. John and Frances Fielding Lewis, lived at Warner Hall in Gloucester County. He was the elder brother of Fielding Lewis, husband of GW’s sister Betty (sorley description begins Merrow Egerton Sorley, comp. Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family . . .. 1935. Reprint. Baltimore, 1979. description ends , 67–68).

Today being Friday, the burgesses adjourned for the weekend after attending to a few items of routine business.

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Title: [Diary entry: 13 May 1769]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 13 May 1769

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 13 May 1769],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0004-0013-0013. [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. 151.]