George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 22 October 1797]

22. Clear all day. Wind at No. Wt. M. 57. Mr. Potts & wife & Mr. Smith & wife & Mr. Lear dined here.

Mr. Smith may be Augustine Jaquelin Smith (1774–1830), son of Augustine Smith (1739–1774). Augustine Jaquelin Smith represented Fairfax County in the Virginia legislature 1796–98 and 1821–22. In 1796 he was married to Susannah Taylor, the daughter of Jesse Taylor, Sr., of Alexandria.

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    [Diary entry: 22 October 1797]
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    Washington, George
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    22 October 1797

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    “[Diary entry: 22 October 1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0006-0010-0022. [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. 264.]