George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 22 May 1773]

22. Dined at Mr. Morris’s & Spent the Evening at the Club.

Mr. Morris could be either Robert or Gouverneur Morris, both of whom were members of the Philadelphia Jockey Club (JACKSON description begins Joseph Jackson. “Washington in Philadelphia.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 56 (1932): 110–55. description ends , 117). The club which GW visited after dinner may have been the Jockey Club.

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    Washington, George
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    “[Diary entry: 22 May 1773],” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 13, 2018, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0003-0010-0022. [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. 181.]