[Diary entry: 20 April 1785]

Wednesday 20th. Mercury at 44 this Morning. 44 at Noon and 42 at Night.

Morning clear and tolerably pleasant; but before eight Oclock the Wind coming hard from the No. West it clouded—grew cold and was very disagreeable, all day.

No working of ground but sent my Roller to Muddy hole to Roll the orchard grass Seed wch. had been sowed in the 2 A[cres] 3 R[ods] 22 P[erches] of Wheat, friday last, and which from the hardness of the Earth received no benefit from the former rolling.

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Title: [Diary entry: 20 April 1785]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 20 April 1785

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 20 April 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0002-0004-0020. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 4, 1 September 1784 – 30 June 1786, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, pp. 123–124.]