Tuesday 27th. Thermometer at 38 in the Morning—44 at Noon and [ ] at Night.
Clear with the wind very high from the Southward until the Evening when it shifted to the Westward & blew equally hard but did not get to be very cold.
“[Diary entry: 27 December 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0002-0012-0027. [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. 256.]