by Flora Fraser
“by your daughter”: Ibid.
state of affairs: Benedict Calvert to GW, April 8, 1773, PGW.
“a darling child”: Jonathan Boucher to GW, April 8, 1773, PGW.
“of this passion”: Ibid.
“exceeding good Character”: GW to BB, April 20, 1773, PGW.
and a farce: Diaries, entries for April, May 1773, PGW.
“the progress of it”: GW to Myles Cooper, May 31, 1773, PGW.
of the Broadway: JPC to GW, July 5, 1773, PGW.
9: DEATH AND ADJUSTMENT
“wind being southerly”: Diaries, entries for June 1773; and Account of the Weather in June [1773], both in PGW.
“or scarce a sigh”: GW to BB, June 20, 1773, PGW.
“for her recovery”: EPC to Jared Sparks, February 26, 1833, quoted in Sparks, Life of Washington, 522.
“hitherto has trod”: GW to BB, June 20, 1773, PGW.
“to aim at”: GW to BB, April 20, 1773, PGW.
“ebb of Misery”: GW to BB, June 20, 1773, PGW.
“belt, swivels, etc.”: GW to Robert Cary & Co., July 26, 1773, n.1, PGW.
“for Second Mourning”: GW to Robert Cary & Co., Enclosure, Invoice, July 10, 1773, PGW.
friends and relatives: GW to Robert Cary & Co., July 12, 1773, and n., PGW.
“(Betsy being married)”: GW to BB, June 20, 1773, PGW.
mother and her brother: GW to Robert Cary & Co., November 10, 1773, PGW.
lodgings in New York: JPC to GW, July 5, 1773, PGW.
measure of amusement: JPC to MW, July 5, [1773], in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 152–53.
his pupil’s industry: John Vardill to GW, September 20, 1773, PGW.
the Human Mind: GW to Robert Cary & Co., October 6, 1773, PGW.
Parke Custis side: Diaries, entries for November 1773, PGW.
“Kind of necessity”: GW to Myles Cooper, December 15, 1773, PGW.
other nuptial expenses: Diaries, entries for January 3, 30 [31], 1774, and nn., PGW.
“a late dinner”: Diaries, entries for February 1774, PGW.
“time in Maryland”: GW to Myles Cooper, April 15, 1774, PGW.
“the divine will”: JPC to MW, July 5, [1773], in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 152–53.
“with Gold Fringe”: Diaries, entry for February 24, 1774, PGW.
the early summer: Diaries, entry for May 7, 1774, PGW.
“Goats and Geese”: William Ramsay, Robert Adam, and Carlyle & Dalton to GW and John West, May 16, 1774, PGW.
“by water” from Eltham: Diaries, entry for June 4, 1774, PGW.
“out without loss”: GW to Robert Cary & Co., November 10, 1773, PGW.
“& different Heights”: LW to GW, November 12, 1775, PGW.
“the dining room”: GW to George William Fairfax, June 10[–15], 1774, and nn.3, 25, PGW.
in five installments: Hugh Mercer to GW, March 21, 1774, and n.1, PGW.
at a time: GW to Robert Cary & Co., June 1, 1774, PGW.
“sacrificed by piecemeal”: GW to George William Fairfax, June 10[–15], 1774, PGW.
10: CONTINENTAL ARMY
“of civil war”: Randolph, ed., Memoir, Correspondence…of Jefferson (1829), 1, 5.
the following month: GW to George William Fairfax, June 10[–15], 1774, PGW.
preserve those rights: Fairfax County Resolves, [July 18, 1774], PGW.
“ ‘with you gentlemen’ ”: Mays, ed., Pendleton, 2:98.
“such arbitrary Sway”: GW to Bryan Fairfax, August 24, 1774, PGW.
“fearful, timid, skittish”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 25, 1774, AFP.
“but an American”: John Adams, Diary 22a, Notes on debates…, September 6, 1774, APF.
hero’s financial worries: Silas Deane to Elizabeth Deane, September 10[–19], 1774, LDC.
lawyer Joseph Reed: Diaries, entries for September 1774, PGW.
“of North America”: GW to Robert McKenzie, October 9, 1774, PGW.
tailored that autumn: Fairfax Independent Company to GW, October 19, 1774, n., PGW.
“Sling Cartouch-Box, and Tomahawk”: Resolutions of Fairfax County Committee, [January 17, 1775], PGW; Diaries, entry for January 16, 1775, PGW.
“for that purpose”: Van Schreeven, Scribner, and Tarter, eds., Revolutionary Virginia, 2:366–69.
“if need be”: GW to JAW, March 25, 1775, PGW.
city’s own interests: Edmund Pendleton to GW, April 21, 1775, n.2, PGW.
the colonial capital: Spotsylvania Independent Company to GW, April 26, 1775, PGW.
“in his choice?”: GW to George William Fairfax, May 31, 1775, PGW.
“among the delegates”: Richard Henry Lee to William Lee, May 10, 1775, Lee Papers, VHS.
“a tyrannical ministry”: May 11, 1775, recording Letter from the Provincial Congress of Mass., May 3, 1775, JCC.
“was a soldier!”: John Adams to Abgail Adams, May 29, 1775, APF.
“effusion of blood”: June 12, 1775, JCC.
“they do now”: Gage to William, Earl of Dartmouth, June 25, 1775, in Alden, General Gage, 204.
“right of America”: June 2, 1775, recording Letter from the Provincial Congress of Mass., May 16, 1775, JCC.
was thus born: June 14, 1775, JCC.
“of American liberty”: June 15, 1775, JCC.
left the chamber: John Adams autobiography, pt. 1, sheet 20/53, June–August 1773, AFP.
“avoid this appointment”: GW to MW, June 18, 1775, PGW.
an “exact account”: Address to the Continental Congress, [June 16, 1775], PGW.
“times Seven years”: GW to MW, June 18, 1775, PGW.
“beyond my experience”: GW to Officers of Five Virginia Independent Companies, June 20, 1775, PGW.
“in great degree”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, June 11–17, 1775, AFP.
“your own Pen”: GW to MW, June 18, 1775, PGW.
enliven her spirits: GW to BB, June 19, 1775; GW to JPC, June 19, 1775; both in PGW.
“very disagreeable Sensations”: GW to JAW, June 20, 1775, PGW.
11: TAKING COMMAND, 1775
“20/. a yard”: GW to MW, June 18, 1775, PGW.
“entire Go: Washington”: GW to MW, June 23, 1775, PGW.
“too narrow Limits”: GW to Philip Schuyler, June 25, 1775, PGW.
“as this colony”: GW to John Hancock, June [25], 1775, and nn.1–4, PGW.
American army—positions: GW to JAW, July 27, 1775, PGW.
before his arrival: Revolutionary War Expense Account, f. 2, July 15, 1775, Series 5, GWP.
supply the establishment: Ibid., July 19, 1775.
and any guests: Ibid., July 24, 1775.
“order, or Government”: GW to JAW, July 27, 1775, PGW.
“& nasty people”: GW to LW, August 20, 1775, PGW.
“health and service”: General Orders, July 4, 1775, PGW.
“yellow or buff”: General Orders, July 23, 1775, PGW.
“the United provinces”: General Orders, August 5, 1775, PGW.
“glad to get”: GW to LW, August 20, 1775, PGW.
“and avowed rebellion”: MacDonald, Documentary Source Book, 189–90.
best he could: GW to John Hancock, August 4, 1775, PGW.
“and my Papers”: GW to LW, August 20, 1775, PGW.
“Militia of England”: BB to GW, August 30, 1775, PGW.
“as a Volunteer”: John Hancock to GW, July 10, 1775, PGW.
“got a girl”: Peyton Randolph to GW, September 6, 1775, PGW.
“a painful moment”: GW to Samuel Washington, September 30, 1775, PGW.
in no danger: LW to GW, October 5, 1775, PGW.
clashes with claimants: LW to GW, October 15, 1775, PGW.
“her being present”: LW to GW, October 29, 1775, PGW.
“take him long”: LW to GW, October 15, 1775, PGW.
“Army in Winter”: LW to GW, October 5, 1775, PGW.
“her own choice”: GW to JAW, October 13, 1775, PGW.
“would permit her”: LW to GW, October 29, 1775, PGW.
“rather ill judge’d”: LW to GW, November 5, 1775, PGW.
“required of him”: Fielding Lewis to GW, November 14, 1775, PGW.
“she left home”: LW to GW, November 14, 1775, PGW.
“can be Collected”: LW to GW, November 24, 1775, PGW.
he saw fit: Fairfax County Committee of Correspondence to GW, November 14, 1775, PGW.
“that of Housekeeping”: Lund Washington to GW, November 14, 1775, PGW.
“my own House”: GW to Joseph Reed, November 20, 1775, PGW.
correspondent in Alexandria: MW to Elizabeth Ramsay, December 30, 1775, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 164–66.
“troops in Boston!”: John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, November 25, 1775, LDC.
12: BESIEGING BOSTON, 1775–1776
“diversions and entertainments”: October 20, 1774, JCC.
“unto her own”: Duane, ed., Remembrances of Marshall, 53.
“he so returned”: Ibid.
“Embarrassment to both”: John Adams autobiography, pt. 1, sheet 32/53, February 26–March 14, 1776, AFP.
“against his return”: Benjamin Harrison to GW, July 21[–24], 1775, and n., PGW.
“very great somebody”: MW to Elizabeth Ramsay, December 30, 1775, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 164–65.
end of December: Ibid.
“sheet of orders”: Charles Lee to GW, February 19, 1776, PGW.
“degree, a penman”: GW to Joseph Reed, November 20, 1775, PGW.
Stephen Moylan: GW to Joseph Reed, January 23, 1776, PGW.
wrote the secretary: William Bartlett to GW, December 9, 1775, n.3, PGW.
mayhem at headquarters: Ebenezer Austin, Revolutionary War Household Expense Accounts, 1775–76, entries for December 11, 12, 22, 1775, Series 5, GWP.
“pretty, I think”: MW to Elizabeth Ramsay, December 30, 1775, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 164–65.
“Loaves of Sugar”: Pierre Penet and Emmanuel de Pliarne to GW, [December 18, 1775], PGW.
stay to dine: Cooper, “Diary of Samuel Cooper,” 328.
on December 31: GW to John Hancock, December 4, 1775, PGW.
to date repaid: Diaries, entry for January 4, 1775, and n., PGW.
of her child: MW to AMB, January 31, 1776, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 166–67.
alarmed her greatly: Hoyt, “Self-Portrait: Eliza Custis,” 93.
as she could: MW to Elizabeth Ramsay, December 30, 1775, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 164–66.
“Mrs Gates the same”: Historic Guide to Cambridge, 88.
“are remarkably heavy”: GW to John Hancock, December 25, 1775, PGW.
the enemy forces: GW to John Hancock, December 31, 1775, PGW.
“together, without [powder]”: GW to John Hancock, January 4, 1776, PGW.
“to this time”: GW to Joseph Reed, January 4, 177[6], PGW.
“approved,” he wrote: Sparks, Library of American Biography, 17:405–6.
“all his enemies”: Prayer for the King’s Majesty, Book of Common Prayer.
on January 2: Sparks, Library of American Biography, 17:405–6.
“View…entirely Continental”: General Orders, January 1, 1776, PGW.
“Tenderness and Mercy”: Parliamentary History, 18:695–97.
“not their oppression”: GW to John Hancock, January 4, 1776, and n.6, PGW.
“pot luck” at headquarters: GW to John Adams, January 7, 1776, PGW.
“Mrs Warren has given”: MW to Mercy Otis Warren, January 8, 1776, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 166.
Roxbury to Boston: GW to Joseph Reed, January 14, 1776, PGW.
with new respect: John Adams Diary, entry for January 24, 1776, AFP.
“I came here”: MW to AMB, January 31, 1776, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 166–67.
into Boston Bay: GW to John Hancock, February 18[–21], 1776, PGW.
“after 2 o’Clock”: Invitation to Henry and Lucy Flucker Knox, February 1, [1776], PGW.
“only Can show”: GW to BB, February 28, 1776, PGW.
notice the occupation: GW to Joseph Reed, February 26[–March 9], 1776, PGW.
“& equally cheap”: Henry Knox to Lucy Flucker Knox, c. March 5–17, 1776, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“entire and untouch’d”: GW to John Hancock, March 19, 1776, PGW.
the date April 1, 1776: Ebenezer Austin, Revolutionary War Household Expense Accounts, March 1775–76, entry for April 1, 1776, Series 5, GWP.
“scenes of War”: Butterfield et al., eds., Adams Family Correspondence, 1:385–86.
his brother John Augustine: GW to JAW, March 31, 1776, PGW.
13: NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, 1776
“a material odds”: GW to John Hancock, April 23, 1776, PGW.
“field of conjecture”: GW to John Hancock, May 5, 1776, PGW.
“troops from hence”: GW to John Hancock, April 25[–26], 1776, PGW.
“Transactions may occasion”: JPC to GW, June 10, 1776, PGW.
on April 29: GW to JAW, April 29, 1776, PGW.
“you are apart”: JPC to GW, June 10, 1776, PGW.
clients of late: John Hancock to GW, May 21, 1776, and n.3., PGW.
the regulars there: GW to JAW, May 31[–June 4], 1776, PGW.
“Infection was received”: GW to BB, June 4, 1776, PGW.
“in this Manner”: GW to JAW, May 31[–June 4], 1776, PGW.
over one breast: Joseph Hiller, after Charles Willson Peale, His Excellency George Washington, Esq., [mezzotint, c. 1777]; Hiller, after Peale, Lady Washington, mezzotint [after 1776]: both in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
“shape or other”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, August 25, 1776, AFP.
for her son: Charles Willson Peale, Martha Washington, [miniature, 1776], YUAG; Peale, Martha Washington, [miniature, 1772], MVLA.
throughout the war: Charles Willson Peale, George Washington, [miniature, 1776], MVLA.
“noble a vote”: GW to JAW, May 31[–June 4], 1776, PGW.
“life and liberty…”: Van Schreeven, Scribner, and Tarter, eds., Revolutionary Virginia, 7:450.
“Work of a day”: GW to JAW, May 31[–June 4], 1776, PGW.
declared “totally dissolved”: Van Schreeven, Scribner, and Tarter, eds., Revolutionary Virginia, 7:650.
in the north: GW to JAW, May 31[–June 4], 1776, PGW.
Arch Street home; John Hancock to GW, June 10, 1776, PGW.
“and independent states”: June 7, 1776, JCC.
into sudden confusion: John Hancock to GW, June [10], 1776, PGW.
“to much inconvenience”: GW to James Clinton, June 28, 1776, and n.1, PGW.
“approbation of it”: GW to John Hancock, July 10, 1776, PGW.
“of this Summer”: GW to JAW, July 22, 1776, PGW.
“may be true”: JPC to MW, August 21, 1776, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 171.
“of this Continent”: GW to LW, August 19, 1776, PGW.
“to do at Cambridge”: MW to AMB, August 28, 1776, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 172.
“she has suffered”: JPC to MW, August 21, 1776, ibid., 170–71.
“an easy rate”: GW to LW, August 26, 1776, PGW.
“dictate” till now: GW to John Hancock, August 31, 1776, PGW.
Jersey shore opposite: GW to John Hancock, September 8, 1776, PGW.
“since I was born”: GW to LW, September 30, 1776, PGW.
14: RETREAT TO THE DELAWARE, 1776–1777
“chance for reputation”: GW to LW, September 30, 1776, PGW.
defense of America: GW to LW, October 6, 1776, PGW.
“least Earthly Service”: GW to SW, October 5, 1776, PGW.
“during the War”: GW to John Hancock, September 2, 1776, PGW.
“plan of operations”: GW to LW, September 30, 1776, PGW.
“& Weeping Willow”: GW to LW, August 19, 1776, PGW.
“least troublesome part”: LW to GW, January 31, 1776, PGW.
“must have Fish”: LW to GW, February 8, 1776, PGW.
“a masterly manner”: GW to LW, September 30, 1776, PGW.
“Beef, & Toddy”: LW to GW, February 15, 1776, PGW.
“make your residence”: GW to JPC, July 24, 1776, PGW.
“Part of one”: JPC to GW, June 10, 1776, PGW.
“the other Rooms”: LW to GW, December 10, 1775, PGW.
“Quantity of Corn”: LW to GW, December 24, 1777, PGW.
“these troublesome times”: LW to GW, January 17, 1776, PGW.
“I have life”: GW to LW, September 30, 1776, PGW.
“a single Letter”: John Hancock to GW, October 28, 1776, and nn.1, 2, PGW.
“of the Contents”: William Howe to GW, November 11, 1776, PGW.
“into his possession”: GW to John Hancock, November 14, 1776, PGW.
“of a Disappointment”: John Hancock to GW, October 28, 1776, n.2, PGW.
he told Hancock: GW to John Hancock, November 14, 1776, PGW.
a way forward: GW to JAW, November 6[–19], 1776, n.10, PGW.
“befall an Army”: GW to Joseph Reed, November 30, 1776, n.1, PGW.
“Quarter Master’s department”: GW to John Hancock, November 19[–21], 1776, PGW.
“Firmness of Mind”: GW to Joseph Reed, November 30, 1776, n.1, PGW.
“at this Business.” GW to John Hancock, November 23, 1776, n.2, PGW.
“founded in necessity”: GW to John Hancock, November 30, 1776, PGW.
“than without me”: GW to Joseph Reed, November 30, 1776, n.1, PGW.
“prompted me to”: GW to Joseph Reed, November 30, 1776, PGW.
“cabinet of fortitude”: [Paine], The American Crisis (No. 1), [Boston, 1776], broadside, ATC.
“the Enemys numbers”: GW to LW, December 10[–17], 1776, PGW.
“of British Tyranny”: Bartholomew Dandridge to GW, January 16, 1777, PGW.
“the Postilion before”: GW to LW, December 10[–17], 1776, PGW.
“pretty near up”: GW to SW, December 18, 1776; GW to JAW, December 18, 1776; both in PGW.
“procure my liberty”: Happel, Chatham, 14.
“fatal to us”: GW to Joseph Reed, December 23, 1776. PGW.
“in pressing forward”: GW to John Hancock, December 27, 1776, PGW.
Princeton field hospital: Butterfield, ed., Rush Letters, 1:125–27.
