[Diary entry: 12 July 1770]

12. Rid to my Harvest field at Muddy hole. Upon my return to Dinner found Mrs. Ambler & her daughter here who dind & went away afterwards.

Mary Cary Ambler (1732/33–1781) of Jamestown was a younger sister of Sally Fairfax and the widow of Edward Ambler (1732–1768). Mrs. Ambler and her daughter Sarah (1760–1782) were at this time visiting the Fairfaxes at Belvoir (cary description begins Wilson Miles Cary. “Wilson Cary of Ceelys, and His Family.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 9 (1901-2): 104–11. description ends , 108).

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Title: [Diary entry: 12 July 1770]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 12 July 1770

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 12 July 1770],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0005-0018-0012. [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. 254.]