Sunday 2d. Went to Trinity Church in the forenoon—writing letters on private business in the Afternoon—Among other letters one by my order to Genl. Moylan, to know if he wd. accept the Consulate at Lisbon, as it was not proposed to give Salaries therewith.
[Diary entry: 2 May 1790]
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- “[Diary entry: 2 May 1790],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0001-0005-0002. [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. 73.]