Saturday 24th. Thermometer at 36 in the morning—40 at Noon and 40 at Night—Morning heavy & lowering with the Wind at So.—Moderate all day with Sun shine at times.
Went into the Neck—measured some fields there and laid off 8 Acres for Tobacco.
[Diary entry: 24 January 1789]
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- [Diary entry: 24 January 1789]
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- Washington, George
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- 24 January 1789
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- Year: At Mount Vernon
- Month: January 1789
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- “[Diary entry: 24 January 1789],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0013-0024. [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. 442.]