George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 9 October 1772]

9. Dined at Mr. Ridouts. Went to the Play & to the Govrs. to Supper.

Playing at the theater today were a new comedy, The West Indian, and a new comic opera, The Padlock (Md. Gaz., 8 Oct. 1772; RANKIN description begins Hugh F. Rankin. The Theater in Colonial America. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1960. description ends , 132, 164).

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    [Diary entry: 9 October 1772]
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    Washington, George
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    9 October 1772

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    “[Diary entry: 9 October 1772],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0002-0023-0009. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 137.]