Sunday 17th. Thermometer at 66 in the Morning—72 at Noon and 70 at Night. Wind at No. Et. with clouds and appearances of Rain but none fell—except what fell in the Night.
[Diary entry: 17 August 1788]
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- [Diary entry: 17 August 1788]
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- Washington, George
- Date
- 17 August 1788
Ancestor groups
- Year: At Mount Vernon
- Month: August 1788
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- “[Diary entry: 17 August 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0008-0017. [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. 380.]