[Diary entry: 11 November 1787]

Sunday 11th. Thermometer at 48 in the Morning—58 at Noon and 56 at Night. Morning clear & pleasant with the Wind westerly but not hard nor cold.

After breakfast Mrs. Graham & her daughter went away and to dinner came my Nephew Geo. Steptoe Washington and young Mr. McCrae. In the Evening Colo. Richd. Henry Lee came in.

mccrae: probably John McCrea (McCrae), a son of Robert McCrea of Alexandria and a schoolmate of George Steptoe Washington (Va. Journal, 8 Nov. 1787).

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Title: [Diary entry: 11 November 1787]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 11 November 1787

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 11 November 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0002-0011-0011. [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. 214.]