7. Dined at the Govrs. and went to the Play afterwards.
The plays attended by GW this week were part of the fall season of David Douglass’s American Company, which opened in Annapolis 1 Sept. (RANKIN description begins Hugh F. Rankin. The Theater in Colonial America. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1960. description ends , 166–67).
“[Diary entry: 7 October 1772],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0002-0023-0007. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, pp. 136–137.]