[Diary entry: 23 September 1798]

23. Morning clear—Wind Easterly & Mer. at 63. Lowering in the evening Mer. at 72. Mr. & Mrs. Nichols & his brother & Mrs. Swanwick dined here.

Mrs. Swanwick is undoubtedly the widow of John Swanwick who had died the previous month. Swanwick was James B. Nickolls’s brother-in-law (John Swanwick to GW, 22 April 1789, DLC:GW).

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Title: [Diary entry: 23 September 1798]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 23 September 1798

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 23 September 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0009-0023. [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. 317.]