George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 26 June 1769]

26. At home all day—Measuring salt from a Bermudian.

a bermudian: GW is here receiving salt from a Bermudian vessel, which likely came from Turks Islands in the British West Indies.

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    [Diary entry: 26 June 1769]
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    Washington, George
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    26 June 1769

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    “[Diary entry: 26 June 1769],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0004-0016-0026. [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. 160.]