18. Morning—Clear & more moderate—Wind still at No. Wt. Mer. at 32. Clear all day & but little wind after morng. Mer. 50 at Night & no higher all day. Peaches not killed, & hoped other fruit not hurt. Points of the New Moon upwards. Mr. Fitzhugh & family left this after breakfast. Began to plant Corn at Union farm.
[Diary entry: 18 April 1798]
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- [Diary entry: 18 April 1798]
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- Washington, George
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- 18 April 1798
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- Year: Mount Vernon and Guests
- Month: April—1798
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- “[Diary entry: 18 April 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0004-0018. [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.]