[Diary entry: 20 September 1799]

20. Morning cloudy—Wind at No. W. and Mer. at 60—at Night 66 & clear. Mr. Ludwell Lee, and Messrs. Stanton & Parker from the Eastern shore of Virginia and a Mr. Hilton dined here & went away afterwards.

stanton & parker: probably John Stratton and Thomas Parker. Stratton, of Elkington, near Eastville in Northampton County, was in the salt business on the Eastern Shore in the 1790s, while Parker (d. 1819) was an Eastern Shore merchant based at Pungoteague, in Accomack County (WHITELAW description begins Ralph T. Whitelaw. Virginia’s Eastern Shore: A History of Northampton and Accomack Counties. 2 vols. 1951. Reprint. Gloucester, Mass., 1968. description ends , 1:147, 174, 698).

GW received word this evening of the death of his last remaining brother, Charles Washington.

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Title: [Diary entry: 20 September 1799]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 20 September 1799

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 20 September 1799],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0008-0009-0020. [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, pp. 365–366.]