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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers

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by Thomas Fleming


  Rhode Island, 59, 120, 150

  Richardson, Samuel, xiv

  Rivington, James, 62

  Rochambeau, Comte de, 40

  Rochefoucauld d’Anville, Comtesse de la, 293

  Rochefoucauld d’Anville, Louis-Alexandre, Duc de la, 293, 296

  Rogers, John, 76, 77, 78, 80

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 335–36

  Ross, Robert, 390, 393

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 102, 365

  Royal Navy, 180–81, 273, 283, 379–80, 385, 388, 389, 390

  Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company, 8

  Rush, Benjamin, 199

  “Sage of Monticello,” 310–11

  St. Asaph, Bishop of, 160

  St. Croix, 209–15, 229, 249, 254

  St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 65, 66

  Sally Hemings, A Novel (Chase-Riboud), 412–13

  Saratoga, Battle of, 138

  Savage, William, 61

  Scholars Commission, 341–42

  School for Scandal, The (Sheridan), 46

  Schuyler, Angelica, see Church, Angelica Schuyler

  Schuyler, Elizabeth “Betsey,” see Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler “Betsey”

  Schuyler, Margarita, see Van Renssalaer, Margarita Schuyler

  Schuyler, Philip, 220, 221, 223, 230, 234, 252, 254

  Scribner’s, 4, 66

  Sedgwick, Theodore, 186

  Seven Years’ War, 6, 11, 12, 17–18, 92, 261, 314

  Sewall, Jonathan, 129

  Shakespeare, William, 132, 178

  Shaw, Elizabeth Smith, 158, 160–61, 171, 172, 202

  Shaw, William, 183, 185

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 46

  Shippen, Alice Lee, 153

  Short, William, 296

  Skelton, Bathhurst, 266

  Skelton, John, 266, 269–70, 287, 429n

  Skelton, Martha Wayles, see Jefferson, Martha Wayles Skelton

  Skipwith, Robert, 268

  slaves, 7, 21, 32, 61, 68–70, 203–4, 211, 212, 213, 214, 255, 273, 275, 282, 303, 305–6, 310–13, 314, 321, 323, 329, 331, 367, 401, 405, 406, 409–16

  Smith, Abigail, see Adams, Abigail Smith

  Smith, Abigail Adams “Nabby,” 134, 135, 139, 149, 155–60, 163–64, 167–70, 171, 173, 175, 179–80, 183, 188, 197–201

  Smith, Caroline, 199

  Smith, Elizabeth, see Shaw, Elizabeth Smith

  Smith, Jim, 393

  Smith, Margaret Bayard, 375, 382, 383

  Smith, Mary, see Cranch, Mary Smith

  Smith, Nancy, 200

  Smith, Robert, 380

  Smith, Samuel Harrison, 375

  Smith, William (father), 129, 131

  Smith, William (son), 160

  Smith, William Stephens, 159–60, 163–64, 167–68, 170, 173–75, 179–80, 183–84, 188, 197–200

  Smith, William Steuben, 160, 163, 167, 168

  Social History of the American Family, A (Calhoun), 409

  “Songs of Selma, The” (MacPherson), 276–77

  Sons of Liberty, 216–17

  South Carolina, 151, 211, 218, 283, 327, 401–2

  Spain, 148, 149, 150–51, 153–54, 177, 198, 312, 314, 377

  Spring, Samuel, 359

  Stamp Act (1765), 92–93, 186, 274

  Stanton, Lucia C., 340

  Stanwix, John, 14

  Sterne, Laurence, 266–67, 269, 276

  Steuben, Friedrich von, 160, 227

  Stevens, Edward, 212

  Stevens, Thomas, 212

  Stevenson, Margaret, 86, 87, 88, 91–98, 110–11, 120

  Stevenson, Polly, 86, 88, 89, 91, 95–96, 98, 110–11, 120

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 331

  Strahan, William, 86–87, 98

  Stuart, David, 43

  Stuart, Gilbert, 49–50, 384, 392, 395

  Stuyvesant, Peter, 217

  “Summary View of the Rights of British America, A” (Jefferson), 277, 278

  Supreme Court, U.S., 191, 331, 383

  Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 182, 183, 185

  Tarleton, Banastre, 284–85

  Taylor, Zachary, 407

  Thaxter, John, 137

  Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History (Brodie), 411–12

  Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (Gordon-Reed), 415, 437n

  Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 339–42, 349

  Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society (TJHS), 341–42

  Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 335, 339–40, 413

  Thornton, Anna Maria, 375

  Thornton, William, 375

  Tilghman, Tench, 220, 222

  Todd, Dolley Payne, see Madison, Dolley Payne Todd

  Todd, Payne, 366, 368, 372, 399, 400–401, 404–5

  Trist, Cornelia Randolph, 320, 401

  Trist, Eliza, 356, 357

  Trist, Nicholas, 324, 401

  Trist, Virginia Randolph, 324

  Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 266–67, 276, 288–89

  Trollope, Frances, 329

  Troup, Robert, 216–17, 231, 238, 244, 246, 247

  Truman, Harry S., 352

  Trumbull, John, 154, 297, 298

  Turgot, Anne-Robert, 109

  Turreau, Louis Marie, 376–77, 383

  Turreau, Marie-Angelique de, 376–77

  Tyler, Royall, 155–56, 159, 197

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 331

  University of Virginia, 322, 326, 335, 405

  Valley Forge, 37, 62

  Van Buren, Martin, 405–6

  Van Ness, John Peter, 376

  Van Ness, Marcia Burns, 375–76

  Van Renssalaer, Margarita Schuyler, 220, 221–22

  Van Renssalaer, Stephen, 221

  Venable, Abraham, 235, 236, 240

  Vergennes, Comte de, 102, 151, 152, 153, 154

  Virginia, xiv, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 22, 24, 26, 32–33, 38, 40, 97, 125–26, 231, 267, 271, 273–74, 277, 283–89, 292, 297, 305–6, 312, 323, 327, 358, 361, 363, 364–65, 381, 401–2

  “Virginia Plan,” 364–65

  Volney, Comte de, 348–49, 351

  Walker, Betsey Moore, 265, 311, 313

  Walker, John, 265, 311, 313

  Wallenborn, White McKenzie, 339, 340, 342, 349

  War for Independence:

  armed conflict in, 40–43, 96, 98, 102, 112, 150, 154, 159, 217–18, 224, 281, 282, 283–86, 356, 363

  British defeat in, 41, 42, 43, 112, 154, 224, 286, 356

  finances of, xv–xvi, 102–3, 106–7, 152–53, 161, 229–30

  French alliance in, 102–3, 139–45, 218, 281, 283

  loyalists in, 60–61, 77, 98–100, 112–14, 118, 216–17

  monarchy overthrown by, 162, 165–66, 180, 181, 195, 215–16, 267

  naval warfare in, 103, 286

  peace treaty for, 111, 114–15, 149–52, 158–61, 195, 292

  War of 1812, 385–98

  Warren, James, 37, 148, 168, 194

  Warren, John Collins, 199

  Warren, Mercy Otis, 37, 47, 134, 147, 168, 194–97, 199

  Washington, Anne Fairfax, 7, 9–10

  Washington, Augustine, 7–8, 260

  Washington, Bushrod, 68, 70

  Washington, Charles, 44

  Washington, Corbin, 70

  Washington, D.C., 46, 170, 192–93, 203–4, 230, 254–55, 312–15, 334, 336, 347, 355, 372–99, 405–7

  Washington, George, 3–70

  account books of, 65, 69

  assassination and kidnapping plot against, 60–61

  background of, 7–10, 63–67

  biographies of, 4–5, 66–67

  birth of, 126, 181–82, 358, 370

  British slander against, 58–63

  cabinet of, 52, 168, 177–78, 239, 307, 309

  as childless, 25

  as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, 34–37, 41–43, 57, 63, 64, 107, 108, 112, 125–26, 132–33, 138, 154, 159, 160, 217–18, 220, 222–23, 283, 286, 364

  at Constitutional Convention (1787), xvi, 118–19

  in Contin
ental Congress, 33, 34, 355

  correspondence of, xvi, 3–5, 11, 12–13, 16–18, 24–25, 28, 30–31, 34–35, 38, 39, 43, 50–52, 57, 58–63, 64, 65, 67, 217–18

  dancing as pastime of, 15, 22–23

  death of, 55–57, 70, 189, 245

  education as viewed by, 26–27, 31, 44, 65, 67

  fame of, xvi, 29, 36–38, 52–53, 56, 70, 114, 179

  family background of, 7–8, 43–44

  farewell address of, 48

  finances of, 9–10, 19–20, 65, 69, 261

  forged letters ascribed to, 58–63

  as founding father, xvi, 3–5, 181–82, 352, 370

  as grandfather, 43–44, 47–48, 51

  Hamilton’s relationship with, 48, 164, 183–84, 189, 217–18, 220, 222–23, 224, 231, 233, 235–36, 238–39, 241–42, 244, 245, 253

  health of, 9, 11, 12–13, 15, 25, 45, 46–47, 48, 54–56

  at House of Burgesses, 22, 24, 27, 33

  James Madison’s relationship with, 48, 364–65, 366, 370–71

  land owned by, 19–20, 23–24, 30, 54, 63, 68

  lifestyle of, 22–24, 169

  love letter of (1758), 3–5, 16–18

  love life of, xiii, 3–5, 10–18, 58–63, 66–70, 310

  marriage of, xvi, 18, 19–20, 22–25, 30, 34–37, 41–43, 55–57, 58, 61, 245, 261

  military career of, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17–18, 22, 52, 54, 63, 64, 179, 183–84, 244, 278

  monument to, 255, 336, 406

  moral values of, 13–14, 50–51, 58–63, 66–70, 132

  Mount Vernon estate of, 7, 9–10, 11, 12–13, 17, 27–30, 32, 34, 39, 40–44, 47–48, 51–56, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69–70, 174, 179, 261

  neutrality policy of, 48–49, 62, 172, 240, 309–10, 366

  personality of, xiv, 13–14, 16, 17–18, 27, 42–43, 47–50, 62–63, 67, 222–23, 238–39

  in Philadelphia, 47–51, 59, 231, 233

  physical appearance of, 16, 18, 46, 49–50, 54, 65–66, 67

  political career of, xvi, 22, 24, 27, 33, 44–51, 61

  popular support for, 45, 46–47, 49

  portraits of, 38, 49–50, 65–66, 384, 392, 395

  as president, 19, 44–51, 62, 119, 164, 165, 166, 168, 169–70, 173, 181, 224, 235–36, 238–39, 241–42, 255, 304, 307, 308, 309–10, 371, 374, 386

  press coverage of, 3–5, 16, 46, 49, 58, 63–64, 310, 347

  religious views of, 238

  reputation of, xvi, 3–5, 13–14, 15, 29, 36–38, 44–45, 52–53, 56, 58–63, 70, 114, 179, 181–82, 222–23, 278, 295, 309–10, 365, 370–71

  retirement of, 51–56

  as revolutionary leader, 32–43, 58–60, 63, 64, 107, 108, 114

  second term of, 19, 48–51, 62–63

  smallpox contracted by, 9, 25

  social life of, 22–24, 31, 39, 45, 69, 107, 169–70, 374, 386

  social position of, 8, 9, 15, 19–20

  spectacles of, 43

  staff of, 63, 64, 159, 190

  as stepfather, 15–16, 24, 25, 26–32, 39, 41–42

  third term rejected by, 52–53

  Thomas Posey’s relationship to, 63–67, 347

  at Valley Forge, 37, 62

  verse written by, 8–9, 10

  West Ford’s relationship to, 68–70, 420n–21n

  in Williamsburg, Va., 14–15, 22, 24–25, 27, 31, 41

  at Yorktown siege, 41, 42, 43, 286

  Washington, George Steptoe, 367, 368

  Washington, Hannah, 29, 68, 69–70

  Washington, Harriot, 44

  Washington, John Augustine “Jack,” 12, 13, 43, 44, 66, 68–69, 70

  Washington, Lawrence, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19

  Washington, Lucy Payne, 367, 373–74, 384, 391–92

  Washington, Lund, 40

  Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis:

  Abigail Adams’s views on, 37, 45, 169–70

  apparel of, 20, 23–24

  background of, 21–22

  biographies of, 16–17, 20

  children lost by, xv, 25, 29–30, 31, 41–42

  correspondence of, xvi, 24–25, 29, 34–35, 41, 51–54, 57, 61–62

  death of, 57, 68

  Dolley Madison’s relationship with, 367, 370–71, 434n

  education of, 22

  as First Lady, 19, 44–51, 169–70, 237, 241, 255

  furniture owned by, 23, 34

  George Washington’s courtship of, 4–5, 15–16

  George Washington’s engagement to, 16, 19

  George Washington’s marriage to, xvi, 18, 19–20, 22–25, 30, 34–37, 41–43, 55–57, 58, 61, 245, 261

  as grandmother, 43–44, 47–48, 51

  health of, 42, 57

  land owned by, 15–16, 19–20, 31

  lifestyle of, 22–24

  as mother, xv, 15–16, 22, 24, 25, 26–32, 41–42

  at Mount Vernon, 20, 22–23, 29–30, 32, 44, 47–48, 51–57, 62, 68

  personality of, 15–16, 19–22, 24, 37, 42, 45

  physical appearance of, 20–21, 22

  portraits of, 20

  reputation of, 15, 19–22, 36–37

  social life of, 15, 22–24

  wealth of, 15, 19–20

  White House home of, 15–16

  as widow, 4–5, 15, 18, 21–22, 56–57

  Washington, Mary Ball, 7, 8, 9, 14, 24, 40, 43, 49, 260

  Washington, Richard, 24

  Washington, Samuel, 43–44

  Washington, William Augustine, 70, 420n–21n

  Washington Monument, 255, 336, 406

  Washington Post, 328

  Waverly Watchman, 333, 412

  Wayles, John, 267–68, 271, 274–75, 278–79, 347, 349, 429n

  Wayles, Tabitha, 268

  Webster, Daniel, 402, 406

  West, Benjamin, 92, 224

  Wetmore, Josiah, 348

  Wetmore, Samuel F., 331–35, 336, 345–48, 351, 415

  Whig Party, 132, 163–64, 168

  White House, 192, 254, 255, 313, 372, 377, 382–85, 386

  White Over Black (Jordan), 410, 415

  Wilkins, William, 369

  Will, George, 413

  Williamsburg, Va., 6, 14–15, 16, 19, 21, 22–25, 27, 31, 38–39, 41, 263, 271

  “William Tell,” 226–27

  Wills, Garry, 411

  Wilson, George, 65–66

  Winder, William, 390–91, 392

  Witherspoon, John, 99, 215, 359

  Wolcott, Oliver, Jr., 183, 235, 238–39

  Wollaston, John, 20

  Woodson, Thomas, 337, 338, 339, 341, 342–43, 349

  Wythe, George, 281, 336

  XYZ Affair, 182–83, 185

  “Yankee Doodle,” 310–11

  Yates, Betsey, 264

  Yorktown, Battle of, 41, 42, 43, 112, 154, 224, 286, 356

  Yrujo, Carlos Fernando Martinez de, 376, 377

  About the Author

  THOMAS FLEMING is the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently, The Perils of Peace. He has been the president of the Society of American Historians and of PEN American Center. Mr. Fleming is a frequent guest on C-SPAN, PBS, A&E, and the History Channel. He lives in New York City.

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  Credits

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