5. Little or no wind all day. In the evening it sprung up at No. Wt. Mer. from 30 to 36. A Mr. Fisk who came here on Wednesday evening went away this morning. Last night there fell about three Inches of Snow. Thawing all day.
[Diary entry: 5 January 1798]
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- [Diary entry: 5 January 1798]
- Author
- Washington, George
- Date
- 5 January 1798
Ancestor groups
- Year: Mount Vernon and Guests
- Month: Remarks in January [1798]
Reference
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- “[Diary entry: 5 January 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0001-0005. [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. 276.]