[Diary entry: 14 December 1785]

Wednesday 14th. Thermometer at 36 in the Morng. [ ] at Noon and 42 at Night.

Morning and day clear & pleasant—wind at So. East. Ground a little froze in the Morning.

Mr. George Washington and his Wife set off to visit her friends in New Kent &ca.—Mr. Bassetts Carriage & Horses having come up for them on Sunday Night last.

Rid to the Ferry Plantn. The Mill, and Dogue run Plantation and went & came by the place (in front of the Ho[use]) where Muddy hole [people] were at Work.

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Title: [Diary entry: 14 December 1785]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 14 December 1785

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 14 December 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0002-0012-0014. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 4, 1 September 1784 – 30 June 1786, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 250.]