Sunday 5th. Thermometer at 50 in the Morning—58 at Noon and 56 at Night—Cool, the Wind being at No. Wt. in the morning—North & a little Easterly afterwards with appears. of Rain.
Returned home after breakfast and reached it about 11 ock.
[Diary entry: 5 October 1788]
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- [Diary entry: 5 October 1788]
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- Washington, George
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- 5 October 1788
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- Year: At Mount Vernon
- Month: October 1788
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- “[Diary entry: 5 October 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0010-0005. [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. 402.]