[Diary entry: 5 October 1785]

Wednesday 5. Thermometer at 60 in the Morng. [ ] at Noon and 68 at Night.

Brisk wind from the Southward all day. Weather clear.

Stripped the Shingles of the South side of the Pediment of the West front of the House, in expectation of Mr. Sanders’s coming to direct the Shingling of it, but he never appeared.

Colo. Ramsay introducing a Mr. McComb, & a Mr. Lowry; dined here, & went away afterwards.

Mr. Perin went from this after Breakfast.

mr. mccomb: GW may mean James McKenna, formerly a partner of William Lowry in the firm of Lowry & McKenna. McKenna continued to carry on a retail business in Alexandria for a number of years (Fairfax Index description begins Edith Moore Sprouse, ed. A Surname and Subject Index of the Minute and Order Books of the County Court, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1749–1800. Fairfax County History Commission. Fairfax, Va., 1976. description ends , 27; Va. Journal, 23 June 1785).

Mr. Lowry is William Lowry, an importer of English goods who had a store in 1784 on Fairfax Street, at the corner of Queen Street in Alexandria (Va. Journal, 16 Sept. and 21 Oct. 1784). Lowry, an Englishman, had by 1787 moved his wife and seven children to Alexandria (VAUGHAN description begins Samuel Vaughan. “Minutes Made by S. V. from Stage to Stage on a Tour to Fort Pitt or Pittsburgh in Company with Mr. Michl. Morgan Obrian, from Thence by S. V. Only through Virginia, Maryland, & Pensylvania (18 June to 4 Sept. 1787).” Manuscript diary in the collection of the descendants of Samuel Vaughan. description ends , 58).

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Title: [Diary entry: 5 October 1785]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 5 October 1785

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 5 October 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0002-0010-0005. [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, pp. 201–202.]