Wind at Northeast, and mercury at 30.

Continued snowing till one o'clock, and about four it became perfectly clear.

Wind in the same place, but not hard.

Mercury 28 at night." Washington, who scorned to take any account of weather, rode for five hours during the morning to several of the farms on his plantations, examining the conditions at each and conferring with the overseers.
On reaching home he complained a little of chilliness.

His secretary, Tobias Lear, observed that he feared he had got wet, but Washington protested that his greatcoat had kept him dry; in spite of which the observant Lear saw snow hanging to his hair and remarked that his neck was wet.