8th. Morning—Raining fast with the wind at So. Et. & Mer. at 60. A good deal of Rain fell in the Night. At 8 oclock it ceased raining but continued cloudy more or less all day. Mer. 65 at Night.
[Diary entry: 8 October 1799]
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- [Diary entry: 8 October 1799]
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- Washington, George
- Date
- 8 October 1799
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- Year: The Final Year
- Month: October [1799]
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- “[Diary entry: 8 October 1799],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0008-0010-0008. [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, pp. 368–369.]