18. Breakfasted at Spurriers—dined at Rhodes’s—and lodged at Mr. Laws in the Federal City.
rhodes’s: Rhodes tavern was a three-story building about six miles north of Bladensburg near the present town of Beltsville (W.P.A. [2] description begins W.P.A. Writers’ Project. Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State. American Guide Series. New York, 1940. description ends , 311).
“[Diary entry: 18 December 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0012-0008. [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.]