George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 27 April 1798]

27. Morning, & the day throughout clear. Wind at So. Et. Mer. 56 in the M. & 68 at Night & no higher all day. Doctr. Craik went away after breakfast & Mr. & Mrs. Law and a Mr. Ghan, a Swedish Gentleman came to dinner.

mr. ghan: Henry Gahn (d. 1834), a young Swede from Stockholm, was established in New York where he carried on “a very lucrative commerce” with Spain. He later served as a commercial agent for Sweden (niemcewicz, 17, 299, n.49).

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    27 April 1798

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    “[Diary entry: 27 April 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0004-0027. [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. 293–294.]