George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 2 January 1786]

Monday 2d. Thermometer at 34 in the Morng. 35 at Noon and 35 at Night.

Heavy lowering Morning with the wind at East. About 9 Oclock it began to rain and continued to do so, slowly, all day.

Immediately after an early breakfast I went out with the Hounds but returned as soon as it began to rain, without touching upon the drag of a Fox.

Mr. Shaw returned from Alexandria this Morning before Breakt.

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    Washington, George
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    2 January 1786

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    “[Diary entry: 2 January 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0003-0001-0002. [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. 259.]