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[Diary entry: 5 August 1770]

5. Went to Church (in Fredg.) and dind with Colo. Lewis.

St. George’s Church, built in 1732, had as its minister at this time James Marye, Jr. (1731–1780), who had succeeded his father as parish rector in 1767 (meade [1] description begins [William] Meade. Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia. 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1857. description ends , 68–69).

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    “[Diary entry: 5 August 1770],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0005-0021-0005. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 261.]