[Diary entry: 30 July 1799]

30. Morning perfectly clear and calm. Mer. at 78—at highest & 85 at Night—a breeze from So. Wt. latter part of the day. A Major Riddle (a British Officer) Colo. Fitzgerald, & Mr. James Patton—and Mr. B. Bassett came to Dinner. The first three went away afterwds.

James Patton (Patten) took an oath of citizenship and was licensed as a merchant in Alexandria in 1791 (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 , 2:29).

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Title: [Diary entry: 30 July 1799]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 30 July 1799

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 30 July 1799],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0008-0007-0030. [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. 358.]