GW at Mount Vernon. This day marked GW’s forty-third birthday. He and Martha dined at Warburton Manor, the residence of George Digges. Dr. James Craik, GW’s personal physician, visited him in the afternoon.

Va. Council member John Tayloe wrote GW, apologizing that his ill health had prevented him from aiding GW in settling an estate and mourning Judge Philip Ludwell Lee’s death.