[Diary entry: 16 January 1789]

Friday 16th. Thermometer at 21 in the Morning—26 at Noon and 26 at Night. Clear all day; with the Wind at No. Wt. in the forenoon, & So. Wt. in the Afternoon.

Brought from Dogue run Plantation 15 Mares which were supposed to be with fold; and one that was thought not to be so to the Mann. Ho. Left 3 there to be added to the Plow horses—sent one to Muddy hole—and one to the Ferry for the same purpose And also brot. from the Ferry [ ] Young Horses & Mares to the Mansion House to be fed.

Began to put Ice into the Ice Ho. this day.

Doctr. Craik dined here & returned to Alexandria afterwards.

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Title: [Diary entry: 16 January 1789]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 16 January 1789

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 16 January 1789],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0013-0016. [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. 441.]