American Crisis

by William M. Fowler Jr.

  100 Quoted in Weintraub, General Washington’s Christmas Farewell, p. 170.

  101 GW to Charles Thomson, January 22, 1784, FW, 27:312.

  102 Mount Vernon Web site, http://www.mountvenon.org/visit/plan/index.cfm/pid/355. Accessed June 25, 2010.

  103 Ibid.

  Epilogue

  1 Samuel Osgood to John Adams, January 14, 1783, LD, 21:276–77.

  2 Edmund C. Burnett, Continental Congress (New York: W.W. Norton, 1941), p. 593. Richard Beresford, for example, a South Carolina delegate, rose from his sickbed to attend.

  3 JCC, 26:23, 37.

  4 GW to Benjamin Harrison, January 18, 1784, GWCS 1:57.

  5 GW to Samuel Vaughan, January 14, 1784, in ibid., 1:45.

  6 GW to William Hamilton, January 15, 1784, in ibid., 1:48.

  7 GW to Mary Ball Washington, February 15, 1787, in ibid., 5:35.

  8 Malcolm Freiberg, “The Reverend William Gordon’s Autumn Tour of the Northeast,” New England Quarterly 65 (September 1992), p. 470.

  9 GW to Gordon, October 23, 1782, GWLC.

  10 Gordon to GW, February 26, 1783, June 18, 1783, and August 13, 1783, in ibid.

  11 GW to Gordon, May 8, 1784 GWCS, 1:377.

  12 JCC, 27:427–28.

  13 Merrill Jensen, The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781–1789 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965), p. 98. Gordon’s work resulted in his The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America, 3 vols. (New York: Samuel Campbell, 1794).

  14 Morris to GW, April 17, 1785, GWCS, 2:507.

  15 GW to Francis Hopkinson, May 16, 1785, in ibid., 2:562.

  16 Pine to GW, December 16, 1785, in ibid., 3:460–61n.

  17 Richard Henry Lee to GW, May 3, 1785, in ibid., 2:532.

  18 Catherine Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James I to That of the Brunswick Line, 5 vols. (London: J. Nourse, 1763–83); GW to Richard Henry Lee, June 22, 1785, GWCS, 3:71.

  19 GW to Knox, June 18, 1785, GWCS, 3:63.

  20 GW to Knox, February 28, 1785, in ibid., 2: 399–400.

  21 Thomas Stone to GW, January 28, 1785, in ibid., 2:297n.

  22 Quoted in Kate Rowland, The Life of George Mason, 1725–1792 (New York: G. Putnam’s Sons, 1892), 2:93.

  23 By this time Congress had moved to New York City.

  24 GW to Lafayette, May 10, 1786, GWCS, 4:42.

  25 GW to Fitzgerald, September 9, 1780, in ibid., 4:241–42.

  26 Although signed by Dickinson, the report was written by Hamilton. JCC, 30:677–80. James Madison was also present at Annapolis.

  27 Ibid., 32:74.

  28 GW to Randolph, March 28, 1787 GWCS, 5:113.

  29 Knox to GW, March 19, 1787, in ibid., 5:95–98.

  30 GW to Randolph, March 28, 1787, in ibid., 5:113.

  31 The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911), 1:3–4.

  32 Ibid., 1:4.

  33 Morris to GW, October 30, 1787, GWCS, 5:400.

  34 Ibid.

  35 Pierce Butler to Weedon Butler, May 5, 1788, Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911), 3:302.

  36 Journal of the Senate of the United States, April 6, 1789.

  37 Thomson had taken the post at the First Continental Congress and did not resign until July 23, 1789.

  38 Knox to GW, March 23, 1789, The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series Dorothy Twohig, et al., ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987) 209.

  39 Address to Charles Thomson, April 14, 1789, in ibid., 2:57n.

  Footnote

  1 That is, from the British in New York.

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