[Diary entry: 20 July 1788]

Sunday 20th. Thermometer at 69 in the Morning—75 at Noon and 72 at Night. Clear and calm in the forepart of the day—some clouds and an Easterly wind afterwards.

Mr. & Mrs. Herbert, Mr. & Miss Muir, Doctr. Brown & his wife and Mrs. Conway came here to dinner and returned in the Afternoon.

Miss Muir was probably John Muir’s only sister, Elizabeth (King, Abstracts of Wills description begins J. Estelle Stewart King. Abstracts of Wills and Inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742–1801: With Rent Rolls for 1761 and 1774. 2d ed. Baltimore, 1978. description ends , 51).

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Title: [Diary entry: 20 July 1788]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 20 July 1788

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 20 July 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0007-0020. [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. 364.]