18th. Calm & pleasant—a refreshing Rain fell in the night. Mer. at 60 in the morning & 66 at Night. About 9 Oclock the wind sprung up from No. Wt. but did not blow fresh nor cold. In the afternoon it shifted to So. Wt. Mr. Tayloe & Mr. Jno. Herbert went away after breakfast.
[Diary entry: 18 April 1799]
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- Washington, George
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- 18 April 1799
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- Year: The Final Year
- Month: April [1799]
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- “[Diary entry: 18 April 1799],” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0008-0004-0018. [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, pp. 342–343.]