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[Diary entry: 29 August 1797]

29. Clear—Wind Southerly. M. at 80. Mr. Bushd. Washington Mr. Fieldg. Lewis & Wife and Miss Dade dined here & went away afterwards.

Bushrod Washington had moved his law practice from Alexandria to Richmond in 1790. Fielding Lewis, Jr., was married to Nancy Alexander, daughter of Gerard and Mary Dent Alexander of Fairfax County. The Miss Dade who accompanies the Lewises is undoubtedly one of Mrs. Lewis’s relatives; there were numerous marriages between the Alexander and Dade families over several generations.

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    “[Diary entry: 29 August 1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0006-0008-0029. [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. 254–255.]