George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 1 October 1786]

[Sunday 1st.] Mercury at 68 in the Morning—78 at Noon and 76 at Night.

The day clear and warm. Took an early Dinner and set out for Abingdon on my way to the Great Falls to meet the Directors of the Potomack Co.

Left Doctr. Craik at Mt. Vernon who came in a few minutes before I set off.

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    [Diary entry: 1 October 1786]
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    Washington, George
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    1 October 1786

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    “[Diary entry: 1 October 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0001-0004-0001. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5, 1 July 1786 – 31 December 1789, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 47.]