George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 17 April 1798]

17. Morning—Wind at No. Wt. & disagreeably cold—Mer. at 28. Clear and cold all day. A very severe frost—ground hard frozen. Ice sufficient to bear. Fruit supposed to be all Killed—leaves of trees bit &ca. Mer. 36 at night 37 highest.

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    [Diary entry: 17 April 1798]
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    Washington, George
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    17 April 1798

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    “[Diary entry: 17 April 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0004-0017. [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, p. 292.]