[Diary entry: 8 January 1789]

Thursday 8th. Thermometer at 31 in the Morning—40 at Noon and 40 at Night—But little Wind all day & that Southerly and a little lowering. In the Night it shifted to No. Wt. & blew fresh & cold.

Mess. Lund & Lawe. Washington—Mr. Willm. Thompson & Mr. William Peake dined here. I was at home all day.

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Title: [Diary entry: 8 January 1789]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 8 January 1789

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 8 January 1789],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0013-0008. [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. 440.]