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 ( , 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 ( , 58).