George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 5 May 1797]

5. Warm in the forenoon with the wind at So. Wt. Rain in the Afternoon. Went to Alexa. on business. Retd. in the afternoon.

on business: GW had “Dinner &ca.” at Gadsby’s tavern today (GW’s Cash Memoranda, 29 Sept. 1794–17 Aug. 1797, RPJCB).

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    [Diary entry: 5 May 1797]
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    Washington, George
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    5 May 1797

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    “[Diary entry: 5 May 1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0006-0005-0005. [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, p. 242.]