[Diary entry: 27 April 1773]

27. At home all day with the above Company. Mrs. Calvert Mrs. Washington & my wife went to hear Mrs. Masons Funeral Serm.

This funeral sermon was for Ann Eilbeck Mason, wife of Col. George Mason of Gunston Hall. She had died on 9 Mar., following a long illness, and was buried at Gunston Hall. This memorial service was preached at Pohick Church by James Scott, rector of Dettingen Parish (MASON [2] description begins Robert A. Rutland, ed. The Papers of George Mason, 1725–1792. 3 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1970. description ends , 1:481).

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Title: [Diary entry: 27 April 1773]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 27 April 1773

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 27 April 1773],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0003-0008-0027. [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. 174–175.]