George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 8 October 1786]

Sunday 8th. Mercury at 56 in the Morning—60 at Night [Noon] and 57 at Night. A brisk southerly wind all day & pleasant.

Mr. Rumney, Mr. Powell, and a Mr. Patterson an English Gentn. dined here & returned in the afternoon.

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    [Diary entry: 8 October 1786]
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    Washington, George
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    8 October 1786

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    “[Diary entry: 8 October 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0001-0004-0008. [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. 49.]