George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 17 December 1797]

17. Moderate with very little wind Mer. from 30 to 34. Gen. Huntingdon came to dinner.

gen. huntingdon: Maj. Gen. Jedediah Huntington (see entry for 18 Oct. 1789, n.3) had recently built a home in New London, Conn., which he called Mount Vernon (CROFUT description begins Florence S. Marcy Crofut. Guide to the History and the Historic Sites of Connecticut. 2 vols. New Haven, 1937. description ends , 2:729).

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    [Diary entry: 17 December 1797]
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    Washington, George
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    17 December 1797

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    “[Diary entry: 17 December 1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0006-0012-0017. [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. 273–274.]