8th. Morning perfectly clear, calm and pleasant; but about 9 oclock the wind came from the No. Wt. and blew fresh. Mer. 38 in the morning and 40 at Night.
[Diary entry: 8 December 1799]
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- [Diary entry: 8 December 1799]
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- Washington, George
- Date
- 8 December 1799
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- Year: The Final Year
- Month: December [1799]
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- “[Diary entry: 8 December 1799],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0008-0012-0008. [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. 378.]