[Diary entry: 6 June 1798]

6. Morning—Mer. at 65. Calm & thin clouds; thunder abt. 10 Oclock & Showers at a distance. In the Afternoon Rain for near an hour. Mer. 64 at Night. Mr. Law went away this morning & Dr. Stuart Mrs. Stuart & three daughters came to breakfast & dinner.

According to Niemcewicz, the Stuarts arrived in a coach and four with two postilions and two men on horseback (niemcewicz, 103). The Stuarts’ three daughters were Ann (b. 1784), Sarah, and Arianne (b. 1789).

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Title: [Diary entry: 6 June 1798]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 6 June 1798

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 6 June 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0006-0006. [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. 299–300.]