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[Diary entry: 8 May 1790]

Saturday 8th. Exercised in the Coach with Mrs. Washington & the Children in the forenoon.

Received from Genl. Knox Secretary Genl. of the triennial Genl. Meeting of the Cincinnati held at Philadelphia the first Monday of this Month, the Copy of an Address from that body to me to which I was to return an answer on [ ] next.

The address of the triennial meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati, 4 May 1790, and GW’s undated reply are in DLC:GW.

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    “[Diary entry: 8 May 1790],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0001-0005-0008. [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. 76.]