[Diary entry: 9 February 1786]

Thursday 9th. Thermometer at 43 in the Morng.—54 at Noon and 50 at Night.

Clear morning, with a remarkable white frost. Wind Southerly all day.

Went early in the Morning to my river Plantation. Took the Dogs with me and on my return hunted, but never got a fox a foot tho I dragged one to Mr. Robt. Alexanders Pocoson at whose house I called.

In my way home I took Muddy hole plantation. Found Mr. Willm. Craik gone and Mr. Fendall and Mr. Hipkins here who went away at Night by which Doctr. Craik Senr. came in.

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Title: [Diary entry: 9 February 1786]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 9 February 1786

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 9 February 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0003-0002-0009. [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. 272–273.]