[Diary entry: 12 August 1797]

12. Fair until evening, when it began to rain moderately. Wind at So. West & Mer. 79. Genl. Lee, Lady & daughter came.

genl. lee: Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee’s first wife, Matilda, died in 1790 and in 1793 Lee married Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829), daughter of Charles Carter of Shirley and his second wife, Anne Butler Moore Carter. The daughter who accompanied the Lees was Lucy Grymes Lee (1786–1860), a child of Lee’s first marriage.

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Title: [Diary entry: 12 August 1797]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 12 August 1797

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 12 August 1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0006-0008-0012. [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. 251.]