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11
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
213.
12
Freeman,
George Washington,
6:166.
13
PWP,
2:78. “To the Delaware Society for Promoting Domestic Manufacturers,” April 19-20, 1789.
14
Wood,
Revolutionary Characters,
50.
15
Kaminski and McCaughan,
Great and Good Man,
104.
16
Ibid., 109.
17
PWP,
2:102.
18
Freeman,
George Washington,
6:175.
19
PWP,
2:108. “To the Ladies of Trenton,” April 21, 1789.
20
WWR,
735. Letter to Edward Rutledge, May 5, 1789.
21
PWP,
2:133.
22
Ibid., 2:134.
23
Ibid.
24
Ibid.
25
Ibid.
26
PWP,
1:444. Letter to George Clinton, March 25, 1789.
27
DiariesA,
338.
28
Callahan,
Henry Knox,
274.
29
DiariesA,
338. Diary entry for April 23, 1780.
30
Freeman,
George Washington,
6:182.
31
PWP,
2:114.
32
Wood,
Empire of Liberty,
56.
33
Stoll,
Samuel Adams,
131.
34
Winik,
Great Upheaval,
67.
35
Isenberg,
Fallen Founder,
233.
36
WWR,
706. “Fragments of a Draft of the First Inaugural Address,” ca. January 1789.
37
Ibid.
38
Ibid., 708.
39
Ibid., 707.
40
WWR,
734. Letter to James Madison, May 5, 1789.
41
Cadou,
George Washington Collection,
216.
42
WWR,
718. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, January 29, 1789.
43
Freeman,
George Washington,
6:191.
44
Stahr,
John Jay,
269.
45
Freeman,
George Washington,
6:195.
46
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
47.
47
Ketcham,
James Madison,
283.
48
Callahan,
Henry Knox,
275.
49
Wood,
Empire of Liberty,
64.
50
PWP,
2:155.
51
Ibid.
52
Cunliffe,
George Washington,
130.
53
Ketcham,
James Madison,
283.
54
WWR,
730. “First Inaugural Address,” April 30, 1789.
55
Ibid., 731.
56
Ibid.
57
Ibid., 730-31.
58
WWR,
704. “Fragments of a Draft of the First Inaugural Address,” ca. January 1789.
59
Ibid., 732. “First Inaugural Address,” April 30, 1789.
60
Ibid., 733.
61
Ibid.
62
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
8.
63
PWP,
1:253. Letter from Samuel Powel, January 26, 1789.
64
Ibid., 1:281. Letter to Samuel Powel, February 5, 1789.
65
Ibid., 1:338-39. Letter from Gouverneur Morris, February 23, 1789.
66
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
205.
67
Ibid., 223.
68
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
23.
69
Brady,
Martha Washington,
3.
70
Ibid.
71
PWP,
2:205.
72
Brady,
Martha Washington,
10.
73
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
21.
74
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
215.
75
Ibid.
76
Freeman,
George Washington,
6:213.
77
Ibid., 6:213-14.
78
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
220.
79
Ibid., 219.
80
Thompson, “‘As If I had Been a Very Great Somebody.’”
81
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
p.223.
82
Ibid., 224.
83
Lossing,
Martha Washington,
22.
 
 
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: ACTING THE PRESIDENCY
1
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
56.
2
Ibid., 333.
3
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
250.
4
PWP,
2:246-47. Letter to John Adams, May 10, 1789.
5
Henriques,
Realistic Visionary,
51.
6
Wood,
Revolutionary Characters,
54.
7
Hitchens,
Thomas Jefferson,
76.
8
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
56.
9
PWP,
3:199. Letter from David Stuart, July 14, 1789.
10
McDonald,
Presidency of George Washington,
25-26.
11
PWP,
5:526. Letter to David Stuart, June 15, 1790.
12
Ibid., 3:322. Letter to David Stuart, July 26, 1789.
13
Ibid., 3:323.
14
Ibid., 2:282. Letter to James Madison, May 12, 1789.
15
Ibid., 2:213. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, May 5, 1789.
16
Ibid., 10:655. Letter to James McHenry, August 13, 1792.
17
Ibid., 2:247.
18
. Schutz and Adair,
Spur of Fame,
101.
19
Sullivan,
Public Men of the Revolution,
120.
20
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
68.
21
WWR,
763. Letter to David Stuart, June 15, 1790.
22
Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton,
279.
23
Brady,
Martha Washington,
167.
24
. Cadou,
George Washington Collection,
129.
25
Sullivan,
Public Men of the Revolution,
117.
26
Chinard,
George Washington as the French Knew Him,
120.
27
Diaries,
6:54. Diary entry for March 26, 1790.
28
Unger,
Unexpected George Washington,
245.
29
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
45.
30
Maclay,
Diary of William Maclay,
83.
31
Ibid., 74.
32
Ibid., 258.
33
Ibid., 137.
34
Ibid.
35
Ibid., 212.
36
Ibid.
37
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
123.
38
Maclay,
Diary of William Maclay,
261.
39
Ibid., 365-66.
40
WWR,
762-63. Letter to David Stuart, June 15, 1790.
41
PWP,
11:182. “Thomas Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington,” October 1, 1792.
42
Ibid, 12:107. “Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Conversation with Washington,” February 7, 1793.
43
Ibid., 2:248. Letter to George Augustine Washington, May 3, 1789.
44
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
51.
45
Ibid., 116.
46
PWP,
2:248.
47
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
116.
48
PWP,
4:336.
49
Cadou,
George Washington Collection,
144.
50
PWRT,
2:490. Letter to William Fitzhugh, August 5, 1798.
51
Wood,
Revolutionary Characters,
52.
52
Burstein,
Original Knickerbocker,
7.
53
PWP,
3:199. Letter from David Stuart, July 14, 1789.
54
Stahr,
John Jay,
226.
55
Maclay,
Diary of William Maclay,
34.
 
 
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: THE CARES OF OFFICE
1
DiariesA
, 297.
2
Flexner,
George Washington,
3:212.
3
Ibid.
4
Ibid.
5
PWP,
3:77.
6
Ibid., 3:112. Letter to James McHenry, July 3, 1789.
7
Brady,
Martha Washington,
167.
8
PWP,
4:1. Letter to James Craik, September 8, 1789.
9
Thompson,
Memorandum for the Martha Washington Anniversary Committee,
15.
10
PWP,
4:1. Letter to James Craik, September 8, 1789.
11
Ibid.
12
Henriques, “Saint or Shrew?”
13
WWR,
740. Letter to Betty Washington Lewis, September 13, 1789.
14
PWP,
1:368. Letter to Richard Conway, March 6, 1789.
15
Adams,
Life and Writings of Jared Sparks,
2:28.
16
WWR,
741. Letter to Betty Washington Lewis, September 13, 1789.
17
Ibid.
18
PWP,
4:35.
19
Maclay,
Diary of William Maclay,
121.
20
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
59.
21
Ibid.
22
Maclay,
Diary of William Maclay,
128.
23
Ibid., 129.
24
Ibid., 130.
25
Ibid.
26
Ibid., 386.
27
Guerrero,
John Adams’ Vice-Presidency,
183.
28
Ibid., 185.
29
Wood,
Revolutionary Characters,
175.
30
Cunliffe,
George Washington,
175.
31
Irving,
Life of George Washington,
575.
 
 
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: RAYS OF GENIUS
1
Maclay,
Diary of William Maclay,
353.
2
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
74.
3
Ibid.
4
PWP,
1:352. Letter to Thomas Barclay, March 2, 1789.
5
Ketcham,
James Madison,
286.
6
McDonald,
Presidency of George Washington,
27.
7
Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton,
289.
8
Ellis,
His Excellency: George Washington,
198.
9
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
74.
10
PWCF,
2:253. Letter to Henry Knox
,
January 5, 1785.
11
Callahan,
Henry Knox,
287.
12
Ibid., 281.
13
Ketcham,
James Madison,
287.
14
PWP,
1:441. Letter from H.Z., March 24, 1789.
15
Adams,
Life and Writings of Jared Sparks,
1:560.
16
WWR,
597. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, May 10, 1786.
17
PWP,
4:413. Letter from Thomas Jefferson, December 15, 1787.
18
WWR,
754-55. Letter to Thomas Jefferson, January 21, 1790.
19
Hitchens,
Thomas Jefferson,
70
20
PWCF,
6:256. Letter from Thomas Jefferson, May 2, 1788.
21
Wills,
Cincinnatus,
199.
22
Jefferson,
Writings,
1319.
23
Ibid., 1321.
24
Thompson,
Memorandum for the Martha Washington Anniversary Committee,
20.
25
Jefferson,
Writings,
1319.
26
Ibid., 1320.
27
Schiff,
Great Improvisation,
403.
28
Jackman, “Young Englishman Reports.”
29
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
55.
30
PWP,
4:67. Letter to James Madison, ca. September 23, 1789.
31
PWCF,
6:316. Letter from Bushrod Washington, June 7, 1788.
32
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
72.
33
Ibid.
34
PWP,
4:78. Letter to John Jay, October 5, 1789.
35
WWF,
25:274. Letter to John Jay, October 18, 1782.
36
PWP,
4:137. Letter to John Jay, October 5, 1789.
37
McDonald,
Presidency of George Washington,
40.
38
Wood,
Empire of Liberty,
86.
39
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
70.
40
PWP,
10:455. Letter from Henry Lee, June 15, 1792.
41
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:550.
42
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
268.

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