15th. Left Bath by seven oclock; & crossing the Cacapohon Mountain, & the Potomack River by a very rough road, we breakfasted at one Goldens—distant about 7 Miles—Bated our horses at a very indifferent place abt. 13 Miles further on—and lodged at the Old Town 33 or 34 Miles. This distance from the extreme badness of the Road, more than half of it being very hilly, & great part of it Stoney, was a severe days Journey for the Carriage horses; they performed it however, well.
[Diary entry: 15 October 1794]
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- [Diary entry: 15 October 1794]
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- Washington, George
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- 15 October 1794
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- Year: Whiskey Insurrection
- Month: October [1794]
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- “[Diary entry: 15 October 1794],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0003-0003-0010. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, pp. 191–192.]