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7
WWR,
624. Letter to James Madison, November 18, 1786.
8
PWCF,
4:448. Letter from James Madison, December 7, 1786.
9
WWR,
624. Letter to James Madison, December 16, 1786.
10
PWCF,
4:474-75. Letter from James Madison, December 24, 1786.
11
WWR,
644. Letter to John Jay, March 10, 1787.
12
Higginbotham,
George Washington Reconsidered,
276.
13
WWR,
633. Letter to David Humphreys, December 26, 1786.
14
PWCF,
4:529. Letter from David Humphreys, January 20, 1787.
15
Stahr,
John Jay,
242.
16
WWR,
635. Letter to Henry Knox, February 3, 1787.
17
Freeman,
Washington
, 537.
18
PWCF,
5:52. Letter to Henry Knox
,
February 25, 1787.
19
WWR,
642. Letter to Henry Knox
,
March 8, 1787.
20
PWCF,
5:96. Letter from Henry Knox, March 19, 1787.
21
Ibid., 5:97
22
WWR,
645. Letter to Edmund Randolph, March 28, 1787.
23
Ibid.
24
Wood,
Revolutionary Characters,
45.
25
PWCF,
5:119. Letter to Henry Knox
,
April 2, 1787.
26
Ibid., 5:36.
27
Ibid.
28
Conkling,
Memoirs of Mother and Wife of Washington,
57.
29
PWCF,
5:33. Letter to Mary Ball Washington, February 15, 1787.
30
Ibid., 5:34.
31
Ibid., 5:35.
32
Freeman,
Washington
, 558.
33
PWCF,
5:157. Letter to Henry Knox, April 27, 1787.
34
Ibid., 5:171. Letter to Robert Morris, May 5, 1787.
35
Ibid.
36
Ibid., 158.
37
Ibid., 171. Letter to Robert Morris, May 5, 1787.
38
Wiencek,
Imperfect God,
265.
39
Kaminski and McCaughan,
Great and Good Man,
83.
40
WWR,
413. Letter to Sarah Bache, January 15, 1781.
41
Schiff,
A Great Improvisation,
359.
42
PWCF,
5:189. Letter to George Augustine Washington, May 17, 1787.
43
Unger,
Unexpected George Washington,
178.
44
PWCF,
5:186.
45
DiariesA,
315. Diary entry for May 18, 1787.
46
Ibid., 316. Diary entry for May 23, 1787.
47
Maxey,
Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel,
26.
48
Ibid., 21.
49
WWR,
224. Letter to John Augustine Washington, May 31, 1776.
50
DiariesA,
315.
51
Isaacson,
Benjamin Franklin,
446.
52
DiariesA,
317.
53
WWR,
708. “Fragments of a Draft of the First Inaugural Address,” ca. January 1789.
54
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
37.
55
Wills,
Cincinnatus,
107.
56
PWCF,
5:208. Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 30, 1787.
57
Morgan,
Genius of George Washington,
5.
58
Kaminski and McCaughan
, Great and Good Man,
87.
59
PWCF,
5:219.
 
 
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: RISING SUN
1
PWCF,
5:219. Letter to George Augustine Washington, June 3, 1787.
2
Ketcham,
James Madison,
210.
3
Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton,
235.
4
Ibid., 236.
5
WWR,
653. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, July 10, 1787.
6
Diaries,
5:177. Diary entry for July 22, 1787.
7
Ibid., 5:179. Diary entry for July 31, 1787.
8
Ibid.
9
DiariesA,
324. Diary entry for August 19, 1787.
10
Diaries,
5:172. Diary entry for June 30, 1787.
11
PWCF,
5:269. Letter to Elizabeth Willing Powel, July 23, 1787.
12
Ibid., 5:280. Letter to Elizabeth Willing Powel, July 30, 1787.
13
Callahan,
General Knox,
262.
14
Higginbotham,
George Washington Reconsidered,
124.
15
Wiencek,
Imperfect God,
266.
16
Wood, “Reading the Founders’ Minds.”
17
Morgan, “Problem of Slavery.”
18
Ibid.
19
Wood,
Empire of Liberty,
73.
20
Ibid., 119.
21
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
42.
22
PWCF,
5:321. Letter to George Augustine Washington, September 9, 1787.
23
Ibid., 5:400. Letter from Gouverneur Morris, October 30, 1787.
24
Monroe,
View of the Conduct of the Executive,
iv.
WWR,
800. Letter to Gouverneur Morris, January 28, 1792.
25
WWR,
932. Letter to the House of Representatives, March 30, 1796.
26
Ibid., 668. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788.
27
Ibid., 695. Letter to Edward Newenham, August 29, 1788.
28
Ibid., 669. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788.
29
PWP,
2:245. Letter to Philip Schuyler, May 9, 1789.
30
Fahim, “George Washington Letter Found in Scrapbook.”
New York Times,
April 27, 2007.
31
Maxey,
Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel,
30.
32
Ibid.
33
Goldwin,
From Parchment to Power,
34.
34
Brookhiser,
Founding Father,
66.
35
Goldwin,
From Parchment to Power,
59.
36
Cappon,
Adams-Jefferson Letters,
196.
37
Van Doren,
Benjamin Franklin,
753.
38
PWCF,
5:331. Letter to the President of Congress, September 17, 1787.
39
Diaries,
5:186. Diary entry for September 19, 1787.
40
DiariesA,
325. Diary entry for September 22, 1787.
41
WWR,
671. Letter to John Armstrong, April 25, 1788.
42
Ibid., 658. Letter to Henry Knox
,
October 15, 1787.
 
 
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: MOUNTING THE SEAT
1
PWCF,
5:425.
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid., 5:399-400. Letter from Gouverneur Morris, October 30, 1787.
4
Van Doren,
Benjamin Franklin,
756.
5
Wills,
Cincinnatus,
157.
6
Ibid., 173.
7
PWCF,
6:448. Letter to Charles Pettit, August 16, 1788.
8
WWR,
667. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788.
9
Ibid., 662. Letter to Bushrod Washington, November 9, 1787.
10
MTV
. “
Early Descriptions Ante 1800.”
11
PWCF,
5:383. Letter from James Madison, October 18, 1787.
12
Ibid., 5:369-70.
13
Ibid. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, October 11, 1787.
14
Ibid., 5:380. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, October 18, 1787.
15
WWR,
657. Letter to David Humphreys, October 10, 1787.
16
PWCF,
5:426. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, November 10, 1787.
17
WWR
, 692. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, August 28, 1788.
18
PWCF,
5:467. Letter to David Stuart, November 30, 1787.
19
Ibid., 5:500. Letter from James Madison, December 20, 1787.
20
Ibid., 6:150. Letter from Henry Knox, March 10, 1778.
21
WWR,
667. Letter to Edmund Randolph, January 8, 1788.
22
Ibid., 684. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, June 19, 1788.
23
Ibid., 681-82. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, May 28, 1788.
24
PWCF,
6:351. Letter to James Madison, June 23, 1788.
25
Ibid., 6:339. Letter from James Madison, June 18, 1788.
26
Ibid., 6:316. Letter from Bushrod Washington, June 7, 1788.
27
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
45.
28
DiariesA
, 330.
29
PWP,
10:631. Letter from Edmund Randolph, August 5, 1792.
30
Ibid., 4:1. Letter to James Craik, September 8, 1789.
31
Ibid.
32
PWP,
10:351. “Madison’s Conversations with Washington,” 5[-25] May 1792.
33
WWR,
679. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, April 28, 1788.
34
PWCF,
5:425.
35
Kaminski and McCaughan
, Great and Good Man,
39.
36
WWR,
696-97. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, October 3, 1788.
37
PWCF,
5:400. Letter from Gouverneur Morris, October 30, 1787.
38
Unger,
Lafayette,
226.
39
PWCF,
6:444. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, August 13, 1788.
40
WWR,
692. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, August 28, 1788.
41
Ibid., 697. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, October 3, 1788.
42
Ibid.
43
PWP,
1:24. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, September 1788.
44
Ibid., 119. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, November 18, 1788.
45
WWR,
671. Letter to John Armstrong, April 25, 1788.
46
PWCF,
6:534. Letter to James Madison, September 23, 1788.
47
Ibid., 6:470. Letter from James Madison, August 24, 1788.
48
PWP,
1:72. Letter to Benjamin Lincoln, October 26, 1788.
49
Kaminski and McCaughan,
Great and Good Man,
99.
50
Ibid., 97.
51
Cappon,
Adams-Jefferson Letters,
202.
52
PWP,
1:166. Letter from Gouverneur Morris, December 6, 1788.
53
PWCF,
6:531. Letter to Henry Lee, Jr., September 22, 1788.
54
WWR,
717. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, January 29, 1789.
55
Ibid., 697. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, October 3, 1788.
56
PWP,
10:535. “Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington,” July 10, 1792.
57
Ibid., 1:262. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, January 29, 1789.
58
Ibid., 1:226. Letter to Henry Knox
,
January 1, 1789.
59
Callahan,
Henry Knox,
273.
60
PWCF,
5:43. Letter to Bridget Kirk, February 20, 1787.
61
Ibid., 5:173. Letter to Lund Washington, May 7, 1787.
62
Ibid., 5:288. Letter to George Augustine Washington, August 12, 1787.
63
Ibid., 5:325. Letter to John Cannon, September 16, 1787.
64
Ibid., 6:198. Letter to Charles Lee, April 4, 1788.
65
Ibid.
66
Ibid., 6:285. Letter to Thomas Lewis, May 19, 1788.
67
Ibid., 6:352-53. Letter to David Stuart, June 23, 1788.
68
Ibid., 6:423. Letter to James Craik, August 4, 1788.
69
PWP,
1:203. Letter to John Cannon, December 26, 1788.
70
Ibid., 1:361-62. Letter to Richard Conway, March 4, 1789.
71
Ibid., 1:368. Letter to Richard Conway, March 6, 1789.
72
PWCF,
2:317. Letter to Robert Lewis & Sons, February 1, 1785.
73
WWR,
724. Letter to Thomas Green, March 31, 1789.
74
Ibid., 725.
 
 
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: THE PLACE OF EXECUTION
1
PWP,
2:2. Letter to Henry Knox
,
April 1, 1789.
2
Ibid.
3
WWR,
735. Letter to Edward Rutledge, May 5, 1789.
4
PWP,
1:424. Letter to Samuel Vaughan, March 21, 1789.
5
DiariesA,
337.
6
PWP,
3:317. Letter from Charles Thomson, July 25, 1789.
7
Ibid., 2:54. “Address by Charles Thomson,” April 14, 1789.
8
Ibid. p. 2:29. Letter from John Langdon, April 6, 1789.
9
Ibid., 2:56. “Address to Charles Thomson,” April 14, 1789.
10
WWR,
730. Diary entry for April 16, 1789.

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