[Diary entry: 24 March 1788]

Monday 24th. Thermometer at 36 in the Morning—44 at Noon and 40 at Night. Clear day, with the wind very hard (and turning cold) from the No. Wt. The ground a little crusted this Morning with the frost.

Mr. Jno. Dawson came here a little before dinner, & proceeded after it to Alexandria.

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Title: [Diary entry: 24 March 1788]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 24 March 1788

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 24 March 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0003-0024. [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. 289.]