Sunday 16th. Thermometer at 43 in the Morning—55 at Noon and 50 at Night. Morning clear with the wind at No. Wt. & rather cooler than it was yesterday. Afterwards it freshned and blew pretty strong all day.
[Diary entry: 16 March 1788]
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- Washington Papers
- Title
- [Diary entry: 16 March 1788]
- Author
- Washington, George
- Date
- 16 March 1788
Ancestor groups
- Year: At Mount Vernon
- Month: March [1788]
Reference
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- “[Diary entry: 16 March 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0003-0016. [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. 285.]