(WASHINGTON GEORGE) Invitation to dine with the President an

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(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Invitation to dine with the President and First Lady. Partly printed invitation, accomplished in a secretarial hand, inviting "Mrs. & Miss Greene's & Mrs. Nightingale" to dinner. One page, 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches to sight; moderate soiling, corners trimmed; addresses written on verso. Not examined outside of decorative double-sided frame. [Philadelphia], 25 January 1796

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Washington's guests were likely Elizabeth (Corliss) Nightingale (1750-1837) and her daughter Mary Rhodes (Nightingale) Greene (1772-1835), from a prominent Rhode Island family. Mary's father-in-law William Greene had served as the war governor of Rhode Island.