Sunday 30th. Thermometer at 34 in the Morning—46 at Noon and 46 at Night. The Wind was fresh from the No. West in the Morning and the grd., for the first time, this fall, pretty hard frozen. Towards noon the wind lulled; and at Night came out from the So. Wt. and lowered a good deal blowing fresh. It was this day & not yesterday that Mr. Harrison &ca. were here.
[Diary entry: 30 November 1788]
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- Washington, George
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- 30 November 1788
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- Year: At Mount Vernon
- Month: November 1788
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- “[Diary entry: 30 November 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0011-0030. [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. 429.]