George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 9 February 1788]

Saturday 9th. Thermometer at 30 in the Morning—39 at Noon And 38 at Night. Clear Wind at No. Wt. all day but neither fresh nor cold. Thawing.

Visited all the Plantations except the Neck.

At All, working as usual—that is the Men getting Materials for fencing and the Women, except those of Dogue run, grubbing at the Mansion house. The Dogue run Women grubbing in the G. Meadow.

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    9 February 1788

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    “[Diary entry: 9 February 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0002-0009. [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. 274.]