16. Set out after a very early breakfast; and was detained at Susquehanna from 10 Oclock until the next morning, partly by Ice and Winds but principally by the Lowness of the tides occasioned by the No. Westerly Winds.
[Diary entry: 16 December 1798]
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- [Diary entry: 16 December 1798]
- Author
- Washington, George
- Date
- 16 December 1798
Ancestor groups
- Year: Mount Vernon and Guests
- Month: December [1798]
Reference
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- “[Diary entry: 16 December 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0012-0006. [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, p. 327.]