George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 28 October 1785]

Friday 28th. Thermometer at 54 in the Morning—60 at Noon and 62 at Night.

Wind Southerly; clear and pleasant all day.

Finished levelling and Sowing the lawn in front of the Ho[use] intended for a Bolling Green—as far as the Garden Houses.

Also began to sow clover seed at Dogue run plantation.

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    [Diary entry: 28 October 1785]
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    Washington, George
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    28 October 1785

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    “[Diary entry: 28 October 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0002-0010-0028. [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, p. 215.]