[Diary entry: 7 February 1788]

Thursday 7th. Mercury in the Ball in the Morning. By noon it rose to 24 and by Night was at 26. The Wind tho’ not much of it, was at So. Wt. all day. The appearance of the Weather varient— sometimes threatning Snow—at other times promising to be fair.

At home all day. Mr. Lear returned about 2 oclock from Alexa.

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: [Diary entry: 7 February 1788]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 7 February 1788

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 7 February 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0002-0007. [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, pp. 273–274.]