Saturday 17th. Thermometer at 30 in the Morning—36 at Noon and 32 at Night. Wind Southerly in the Morning & forenoon with great appearances of Snow—Afternoon clear with the Wind at No. West.
Rid to the Plantations in the Neck and at Muddy hole.
[Diary entry: 17 January 1789]
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- [Diary entry: 17 January 1789]
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- Washington, George
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- 17 January 1789
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- Year: At Mount Vernon
- Month: January 1789
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- “[Diary entry: 17 January 1789],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0013-0017. [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. 441.]