[Diary entry: 19 August 1798]

19. Morning clear & Calm Mer. 80 at noon 89 and at Night 79. Showers around us in the Afternoon but none fell here. Colo. Simms & lady, & Mr. Herbert & Son dined here.

Charles Simms’s wife, Nancy Douglass Simms, was the daughter of William Douglass of New Jersey.

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Title: [Diary entry: 19 August 1798]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 19 August 1798

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 19 August 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0008-0019. [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. 313.]