12. Morng. Clear & Calm—Mer. at 69. Clear through the day. M. 72 at [ ]. The following Compy. dined here Colos. Fitzgerald & Simms Mr. Herbert & Son—Doctr. Craik & Son—Mr. L. Lee Col. Ramsay—Cap. Young & Lt. Jones Mr. Potts Wm. Wilson Mr. Porter Doctr. Cook Mr. Riddle Mr. Lear—Mr. Tracey—& six Ladies & 4 Gentn. from Mr. Rozers.
cap. young: Capt. Robert Young (1768–1824) of the Alexandria Dragoons. By 1800 Young and Philip Richard Fendall were “merchants & partners” in the Alexandria firm of Robert Young & Co. This probably is the same man who was a general of militia in the War of 1812 (Columbian Mirror [Alexandria], 12 June 1798; , 2:65; , 363).
Lieutenant Jones is probably Walter Jones (c.1773–1861), an attorney in Alexandria and Washington City, who studied law with Bushrod Washington and later married a daughter of United States Atty. Gen. Charles Lee (doctr. : possibly Dr. Stephen Cooke who emigrated from Bermuda to Alexandria after 1788 and later settled in the Leesburg neighborhood at his farm called The Forest.
, 169).Mr. Riddle was probably the merchant Joseph Riddle whom GW credited on 20 July 1798 for rent received for a house owned by GW in Alexandria (GW’s Cash Memoranda, 1 Sept. 1797–20 Feb. 1799, RPJCB).