John B. O'Kelly of Alexandria was a dance instructor. In the latter 1780s, O'Kelly gave dance lessons to GW's nephews Lawrence Augustine and George Steptoe Washington (see Ledger B, 276). Harriot Washington and Eleanor Parke Custis also received dance instruction from O'Kelly (see Ledger B, 248, 275). On a few occasions, O'Kelly dined at Mount Vernon (see Diaries, 5:235-36, 409).
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The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, ed. Theodore J. Crackel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2008.