26. Took a Snack at Mrs. Dawson’s & went up to Eltham in the Afternn.
The House of Burgesses adjourned after today’s meeting until 11:00 A.M. Monday, 28 May (JHB description begins H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 vols. Richmond, 1905–15. description ends , 1770–72, 20).
“[Diary entry: 26 May 1770],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0005-0012-0026. [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. 239.]