Sunday 8th. Thermometer at 72 in the Morning—70 at Noon and 69 at Night. A very heavy Shower of rain for an hour fell after dark last night with continual lightning and loud thunder. Wind at No. Et. all day with very clouds but no rain.
[Diary entry: 8 June 1788]
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- [Diary entry: 8 June 1788]
- Author
- Washington, George
- Date
- 8 June 1788
Ancestor groups
- Year: At Mount Vernon
- Month: [June 1788]
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- “[Diary entry: 8 June 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0006-0008. [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. 339.]