[Diary entry: 13 November 1785]

Sunday 13th. Thermometer at 59 in the Morning—65 at Noon—65 at Night.

Clear all day. Morning calm & very pleasant; but Windy afterwards from the No. West.

Mr. Saml. Hanson and his wife, Mr. Thos. Hanson and their two sisters, & Mrs. Dulany wife to Waltr. Dulany, lately from England came to Dinner, & stayed all Night.

Samuel Hanson of Samuel was married to Mary Key (Kay) Hanson, of New Jersey, and was a merchant in Alexandria at this time. GW’s ledger entries between 1784 and 1786 include several business transactions with the “Messrs. Hansons” (General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 180, 207). Maj. Walter Dulany, Jr., brother-in-law of Thomas Hawkins Hanson, served in the Maryland Loyalist Regiment during the Revolution. In 1785 he returned to Maryland from England with his new wife, Elizabeth Brice Dulany, widow of his uncle, Lloyd Dulany.

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Title: [Diary entry: 13 November 1785]
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Date: 13 November 1785

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 13 November 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0002-0011-0013. [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. 222.]