and a hat: “Private sales, which took place upstairs [sic] among the legatees…22 July 1802,” Box 1, WFC.
his predecessor’s library: William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, July 28, 1802, TJP.
a century earlier: Prussing, Estate of George Washington, Deceased, 453.
of the war: “Account of Sales…” 1802, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 412; Detweiler, George Washington’s Chinaware, 185.
“affections exemplarily tender”: Lee, Funeral Oration, 10.
a remarkable union: Robert Field, George Washington and Robert Field, Mrs. George Washington, both at YUAG.
“of Mr. Custis?”: Adams, ed., John Adams, Works, 6:462.
costly looking glasses: “Account of Sales…” 1802, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 414–15.
a central attraction: Custis, Recollections, 65.
overgrown with cedars: Rasmussen and Tilton, Washington: Man Behind Myths, 266.
“were perfectly illegible”: Horrell and Oram, “Washington’s ‘Marble colour’d folio book,’ ” 253.
tattered quarto books. Sections 25, 27, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
“folio Book” ledger: Ledger Book 2, f. 111 [1774], Series 5, GWP.
restored, and reordered: Horrell and Oram, “Washington’s ‘Marble colour’d folio book,’ ” passim.
“not do it?”: Thane, Mount Vernon Is Ours, 16.
“lived and died!”: Ann Pamela Cunningham to MVLA Board, June 1, 1874, Minutes (1874), 5, MVLA.
constituted “love letters”: GW to Elizabeth Powel, March 26, 1797, PGW.
“in each other”: Showman et al., eds., Greene Papers, 2:54.
on his tomb: Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek), February 22, 1943 [photograph: George R. Skadding], MVLA.
“of the day”: Radio broadcast text, February 22, 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Box 1401, FDRL, courtesy of Nancy Roosevelt Ireland.
“cosy little place”: Johnson, Story of a Shrine, 75; Mount Vernon lore.
“a military life”: GW to John Stanwix, March 4, 1758, PGW.
all public business: Ibid.
tell a lie: Weems, Life of Washington, 21, 12.
“indicating great strength”: Freeman, Washington, 3:6 n.10.
“of gum arabic”: GW to Sarah Cary Fairfax, November 15, 1757, PGW.
“ten for it”: Sparks, Life of Washington, 2:10.
“he has none”: Freeman, Washington, 1:198–99.
“in the sound”: GW to JAW, May 31, 1754, PGW.
how to behave: Washington, Rules of Civility.
“lay long abed”: Henriques, “Major Lawrence Washington Versus the Reverend Charles Green,” 252.
“his [Fairfax] parentage”: Brown, Virginia Baron, 59.
leave his wealth elsewhere: Ibid.
“Fairfax’s Wife’s sister”: GW to “Robin,” [1749–50], PGW.
“of my life”: GW to George William Fairfax, February 27, 1785, PGW.
“of an enemy”: Sarah Fairfax Carlyle to GW, June 17, 1754, PGW.
“of your attention”: GW to Sarah Cary Fairfax, [June 7, 1755], PGW.
“at Mount Vernon”: Sarah Cary Fairfax et al. to GW, [July 26, 1755], PGW.
“obliged George Washington”: GW to Sarah Cary Fairfax, [March 4, 1758], PGW.
two small children: Ledger Book 1, f. 38, entries for March 15, 25, 1758; f. 39, entry for June 5, 1758; both in Series 5, GWP.
an “agreeable widow”: Robert Stewart to GW, December 29, 1758, n.5, PGW.
much to endure: Zuppan, Letter Book of John Custis IV, 15.
“for Dandridge’s daughter”: Custis v. Moody, Section 11, Deposition of Anne Moody, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
“lady in Virginia”: Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 432 and n.
at the White House: Custis-Lee family Bible, giving date of marriage, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
“as there are”: DPC to R. Cary, May 5, 1755, Etting Collection, HSP, quoted in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 435.
banks of the river: Richard Pye Cook to Mrs. John Stewart, July 16, 1887, quoted in Bryan, First Lady of Liberty, 29 n.8.
a satin dress: John Wollaston, John and Martha Parke Custis, Lee Chapel and Museum, WLU.
her second marriage: Matthew Pratt, The Custis Children, VHS.
“years well grown”: DPC, Invoice Book, 1749–57, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
“and no lining”: Ibid.
“and newest fashion”: Lynch, Custis Chronicles, 114 and n.384.
“[Antigua plaintiffs’ demands]”: DPC to John Mercer, November 2, 1754, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
Robert Cary and Co. in 1754: DPC, Invoice Book, 1749–57, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
sometime in 1756: Freeman, Washington, 2:298.
“3 years old”: DPC, Invoice Book, 1749–57, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
“Patsy” Parke Custis: John Wollaston, Daniel Parke Custis; Martha Dandridge Custis [MW]; John and Martha Parke Custis, Lee Chapel and Museum, WLU.
the following day: Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 15–16.
“cost about £100”: DPC, Invoice Book, 1749–57, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
“river [the James River]”: Martha Dandridge Custis [MW] to Robert Cary & Co., August 20, 1757, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 5–6.
“heels, well sewed”: DPC, Invoice Book, Martha Dandridge Custis to Robert Cary, Invoice, August 20, 1757, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
“in my favour”: Martha Dandridge Custis [MW] to John Hanbury & Co., December 20, 1757, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 21.
were also liable: John Mercer to Martha Dandridge Custis [MW], November 2, 1858, ibid., 56.
rejoining his regiment: Ledger Book 1, f. 38, entry for March 15, 1758, Series 5, GWP; GW to Richard Washington, March 18, 1758, PGW.
“to Winchester directly” : GW to John Forbes, April 23, 1758, n., PGW.
“the ensuing campaign”: GW to John Forbes, April 23, 1758, PGW.
further thirty shillings: Ledger Book 1, f. 38, entries for March 16 and 25, 1758, Series 5, GWP.
the Pamunkey River: Custis, Recollections, 499–502.
“of your affections”: Robert Stewart to GW, January 16, 1759, PGW.
“shillings, fourpence ha’penny”: Ledger Book 1, f. 38, entry for March 16, 1758, Series 5, GWP.
Robert Carter Nicholas: Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 3–4.
the lawyer professionally: Robert Carter Nicholas to GW, January 5, 1758, PGW.
“the widow Custis”: Tinling, ed., Correspondence of Byrds, 2:646 and n.
an “agreeable partner”: GW to Richard Washington, May 7, 1759, PGW.
“Consort for Life”: GW to Richard Washington, September 20, 1759, PGW.
“been brought up”: GW to Elizabeth Parke Custis, September 14, 1794, PGW.
censured the match: GW to Francis Dandridge, September 20, 1759, PGW.
“you have made”: MW to John Hanbury & Co., June 1, 1758, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 44.
“broad [field] hoes”: MW to Robert Cary & Co., 1758, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 25–28.
“Custis’s servants 14/6”: Ledger Book 1, f. 39, entry for June 5, 1758, Series 5, GWP.
“got it accomplished”: GW to Francis Fauquier, June 17, 1758, PGW.
she now commissioned: MW to Robert Cary & Co., 1758, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 25–26.
“of human nature”: GW to Sarah Cary Fairfax, September 12, 1758, PGW.
“obliged George Washington”: GW to Sarah Cary Fairfax, September 25, 1758, PGW.
“loss, losing you”: James Craik to GW, December 20, 1758, PGW.
“I have endured”: GW to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment, January 10, 1759, PGW.
on the occasion: Cadou, George Washington Collection, 244.
lasting several days: Harris, Old New Kent County, 1:118–19; Custis, Recollections, 11.
at Martha’s home: Robert E. Lee to [parishioner] Virginia [surname illegible], October 23, 1869, Archives, St. Peter’s Church, New Kent; Lee, My Father, Lee, 364.
“happiness or misery”: GW to BB, May 23, 1785, PGW.
“Parke Custis, Esquire”: GW to Robert Cary, May 1, 1759, PGW.
“of Fort Duquesne”: Resolution [February 26, 1759], JHB: 1758–1761.
“rubbed and cleaned”: GW to John Alton, Thursday morning [April 5, 1759], PGW.
and inferior windowpanes: GW to Richard Washington, invoice, November 10, 1757, PGW.
“neat—and good”: GW to Richard Washington, April 15, 1757, PGW.
“slab, and covings”: Richard Washington, invoice, November 10, 1757, PGW.
and white hangings: Enclosure, Invoice to Robert Cary & Co., May 1, 1759, PGW.
was to ensue: George William Fairfax to GW, April 15, 1761, PGW.
“merchant & planter”: GW to Robert Cary, April 26, 1763, PGW.
“wide and bustling World”: GW to Richard Washington, September 20, 1759, PGW.
“he has seen”: MW to AMB, June 1, 1760, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 129.
“plantation to stock”: GW to Robert Stewart, [April 27, 1763], PGW.
own Potomac tobacco: Enclosure, Invoice to Robert Cary & Co., May 1, 1759, PGW; GW to Robert Cary, May 1, 1759, and n., PGW.
of the children: Guardian Accounts, April 12, 1762, PGW.
“books very fast”: MW to AMB, August 28, 1762, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 147–48.
“her very much”: MW to Margaret Green, [September 29, 1760], ibid., 131–32.
“drunk,” Washington noted: Diaries, entry for April 9, 1760, PGW.
“his profession” increased: GW to John Armstrong, March 20, 1770, PGW.
“be quite spoiled”: MW to AMB, April 6, 1762, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 146.
home to Eltham: Diaries, entries for January 1760, PGW.
a subscription affair: Diaries, entry for January 12, 1769, PGW.
“hot water sweetened”: Diaries, entry for February 15, 1760, PGW.
“before this time”: MW to AMB, June 1, 1760, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 129.
“it has been”: MW to AMB, April 6, 1762, ibid., 146.
“me,” she wrote: MW to AMB, August 28, 1762, ibid., 147–48.
far outsell his: GW to Robert Cary, April 26, 1763, PGW.
“largeness of it”: GW to Robert Stewart, April 27, 1763, PGW.
“forts or flying”: GW to BB, July 5, 1763, PGW.
“colony to them”: Francis Fauquier to House of Burgesses, May 19, 1763, JHB: 1761–1765, 171.
land due him: GW to Lord Dunmore, November 2, 1773, PGW.
the desolate expanses: Memorandum, October 15, 1763, PGW.
maize and tobacco: GW to BB, July 5, 1763, PGW.
their behalf attest: Guardian Accounts III, Accounts 1762–73, PGW.
“very large fortune”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, May 30, 1768, PGW.
“exceed two guineas”: MW to Mrs. Shelbury, August 10, 1764, PGW.
“MacKay,” dancing master: Guardian Accounts, May 6, 1765, PGW.
of their homes: Diaries, entry for March 13, 1770; Guardian Accounts, May 1, 1771; both in PGW.
an inflated price: “Invoice of Sundries, to be shipped by R. Cary…,” October 12, 1761, WGW.
lessons Stedlar gave: “Cash paid Mr. Stedlar for teaching Mrs. Washington and two children music, £38.14.0,” Ledger Book 1, f. 231, entry for May 7, 1766, Series 5, GWP.
“the Greek testament”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, May 30, 1768, PGW.
records Washington kept: Guardian Accounts for JPC, [May 5, 1769], entry for May 18, 1767, PGW.
“not always that”: GW to Francis Dandridge, September 20, 1765, PGW.
Colonel George Mason: Diaries, entries for March 21, 1763, March 29, 1764, PGW.
“Frugality and industry”: Sparks, Life of Franklin, 294.
“upon their liberties”: GW to Francis Dandridge, September 20, 1765, PGW.
to “Your Lady”: Robert Stewart to GW, August 18, 1765, PGW.
“disagreeable on yours”: GW to Francis Dandridge, September 20, 1765, PGW.
the Virginia legislature: Robert Stewart to GW, August 18, 1765, PGW.
“as American Freedom”: Van Schreeven, Scribner, and Tarter, eds., Revolutionary Virginia, 1:17–18.
“as Homer wrote”: Randolph, ed., Memoir, Correspondence of Jefferson, 6.
“most of it”: Wirt, Sketches of Henry, 65.
“over the continent”: Carter, ed., Gage Correspondence, 1:67.
then burned them: Account of John Mercer, October 17, 1765, reprinted Virginia Gazette, September 26, 1766.
confession and contrition: John Mercer to Printer, September 12, 1766, Virginia Gazette, September 26, 1766.
resign his office: Francis Fauquier to Board of Trade, November 3, 1765, JHB: 1761–1765, lxix.
spent the night: Ibid., lxix–lxx.
use stamped paper: Van Schreeven, Scribner, and Tarter, eds., Revolutionary Virginia, 1:22–26.
“execrable a design”: McGaughy, Richard Henry Lee, 80 and n.20.
“Repeal of it”: George Washington to Francis Dandridge, September 20, 1765, PGW.
“as useless lumber”: GW to Robert Cary & Co., August 22, 1766, PGW.
“melancholy proofs of”: GW to George Mason, April 5, 1769, PGW.
by the king: November 6, 1766, JHB: 1766–1769, 13.
“Affcetionate [sic] Martha Washington”: LW to GW, March 30, 1767, with Postscript [MW to GW], PGW.
remained in the harbor: Diaries, October 31, 1768, n., PGW.
the Virginians “exceedingly”: Diaries, November 2, 1768, n., PGW.
“in the face”: GW to George Mason, April 5, 1769, and n., PGW.
“the American imports”: George Mason to GW, April 5, 1769, PGW.
“skins of all kinds”: George Mason to GW, April 28, 1769, n.1, PGW.
“instead of earrings”: George Mason to GW, April 28, 1769, PGW.
with immediate effect: May 16, 1769, JHB: 1766–1769, 215–18.
“Luxury and Extravagance”: Van Schreeven, Scribner, and Tarter, eds., Revolutionary Virginia, 1:74–77.
the following day: Virginia Gazette, May 25, 1769.
“universality of it”: GW to BB, June 18, 1769, PGW.
“religiously to it”: GW to Robert Cary, July 25, 1769, PGW.
by the Association: Francis Lightfoot Lee to William Lee, December 17, 1770, Jennings Lee Papers, VHS.
“but more relaxed”: GW to George William Fairfax, June 27, 1770, PGW.
both proscribed items: Fairfax County Associators to Peyton Randolph [c. July 1, 1771], PGW.
“grievances are redressed”: Fairfax County Associators to Peyton Randolph, [c. July 1, 1771], n.2, PGW.
jostled for space: Enclosure, invoice to Robert Cary & Co., July 18, [1771], PGW.
“is very rainy”: LW to GW, August 17, 1767, PGW.
their music lesson: Diaries, entries for February 24, 25, 27, 1768, PGW.
another anticonvulsant: Diaries, entries for June 14, July 11, 1768, PGW.
“very bad ditto”: Diaries, entry for July 31, 1770, and n., PGW.
“15/. Pr. Month”: Diaries, entry for December 17, 1768, PGW.
“& Patsy Custis”: Diaries, entry for July 22, 1768, PGW.
to ride out: GW to Robert Cary & Co., June 20, 1768, GWP.
them to convalesce: GW to Jonathan Boucher, September 4, 1768, PGW.
“fond of cucumbers”: Jonathan Boucher to GW, September 5, 1768, PGW.
“Win Him acted”: Diaries, entry for September 20, 1768, PGW.
tenth wedding anniversary: Diaries, entries for November 9, 1768, and January 6, 1769, PGW; William Rumney, receipt, February 18, 1769, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
“I hope he will”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, January 26, 1769, PGW.
“for a decoction”: Diaries, entries for January 30, 31, 1769, and n., PGW.
“away after Breakfast”: Diaries, entry for February 16, 1769, and n., PGW.
was paid £6: Cash Accounts, [February 1769], PGW.
Bassett that June: GW to BB, June 18, 1769, PGW.
hostelry in town: Ledger Book 1, f. 299, entry for December 16, 1769, GWP; Diaries, entries for November, December 1769, PGW.
“Increases than abates”: GW to Thomas Johnson, July 20, 1770, PGW.
or of wheat: GW to Jonathan Boucher, March 26, 1772, n.1, PGW.
“the desired effect”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, June 5, 1771, PGW.
“of Norris’s drops”: Guardian Accounts, [November 3, 1773]: for MPC, entries for May 7, 1771, November 21, 1772, PGW.
“for Miss Custis”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, February 3, 1771, PGW.
“subject to fits”: Miller et al., eds., Peale Papers, 2:2:695.
swelled the order: MW to Mrs. S. Thorpe, July 15, 1772, WGW; GW to Robert Cary, July 15, 1772, PGW.
ball in Alexandria: Cash Accounts, April 1770, PGW; Diaries, entry for July 16, 1772, PGW.
hint of debility: Section 27, Guardian Accounts for MPC, 1761–72, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
tippet or handkerchief: MW to Mrs. S. Thorpe, [July 15, 1772,] in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 151.
“out of her sight”: Miller et al., eds., Peale Papers, 2:2:695.
“middle aged Woman”: Enclosure, invoice to Robert Cary & Co., July 18, [1771], PGW.
“nightgown [casual dress]”: Invoice to Robert Cary & Co., July 15, 1772, PGW.
to Jacky’s account: Charles Willson Peale, Martha Washington, [miniature 1772], MVLA; Guardian Accounts for JPC, entry for May 30, 1772, Section 25, Custis Family Papers, VHS.
“will often fall”: Jonathan Boucher to GW, May 9, 1770, PGW.
“part with him”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, July 9, 1771, PGW.
“to be neglected”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, February 3, 1771, PGW.
“be for it”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, April 20, 1771, PGW.
“in high Spirits”: Jonathan Boucher to GW, April 11, 1771, PGW.
“prove very injurious”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, April 20, 1771, PGW.
“on his Face”: Jonathan Boucher to GW, April 19, 1771, PGW.
on May 3: Jonathan Boucher to GW, May 3, 1771, PGW.
“in his Ruin”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, June 5, 1771, PGW.
dominate over reason: Jonathan Boucher to GW, May 21, 1770, PGW.
“than she expected”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, July 9, 1771, PGW.
“to be avoided”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, June 5, 1771, PGW.
“her only hope”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, July 9, 1771, PGW.
was the result: GW to Jonathan Boucher, May 21, 1772, PGW.
resolute and stern: Charles Willson Peale, George Washington, 1772, Lee Chapel and Museum, WLU.
“Man I am”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, May 21, 1772, PGW.
souvenirs of the visit: Charles Willson Peale, Martha Washington, John Parke Custis, Martha Parke Custis miniatures [1772], MVLA.
“Conduct may be”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, December 16, 1770, PGW.
“how to describe”: Jonathan Boucher to GW, December 18, 1770, PGW.
“low, loose Company”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, February 3, 1771, PGW.
“of that Gentleman”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, June 5, 1771, PGW.
“Lumber by Rote”: Jonathan Boucher to GW, November 19, 1771, PGW.
“always in controversy”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, July 9, 1771, PGW.
“of general complaint”: GW to Jonathan Boucher, January 7, 1773, PGW.
“the other [Philadelphia]”: Jonathan Boucher to GW, January 19, 1773, PGW.
“the principal Expenses”: Myles Cooper to Jonathan Boucher, March 22, 1773, quoted in Jonathan Boucher to GW, April 8, 1773, n.2, PGW.
“her in Marriage”: GW to Benedict Calvert, April 3, 1773, PGW.
at King’s: GW to Benedict Calvert, April 3, 1773, PGW.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“refresh” the army: GW to John Hancock, January 7, 1777, PGW.
of the army: GW to John Hancock, January 5, 1777, PGW.
“try men’s souls”: [Paine], The American Crisis (No. 1), [Boston, 1776], broadside, ATC.
“needle or awl”: Sellers, “Peale, Artist-Soldier,” 283.
“Most Obedient servant”: GW to Robert Morris, January 5, 1777, PGW.
“on domestic matters”: GW to Robert Morris, January 13, 1777, PGW.
“to distinguished Acts”: GW to JPC, January 22, 1777, PGW.
“in good time”: Bartholomew Dandridge to GW, January 16, 1777, PGW.
“army lay there”: Fitzpatrick, George Washington’s Accounts, 97–98.
“in that City”: GW to the Commanding Officer in Philadelphia, March 6, 1776, PGW.
“of a Camp”: GW to SW, March 15, 1777, PGW.
“on his Acc’t”: GW to John Hancock, March 29, 1777, PGW.
“an army assembled”: GW to SW, April 5, 1777, PGW.
“every dry day!”: John Armstrong to GW, December 30, 1777, PGW.
“in each other”: Showman et al., eds., Greene Papers, 2:54.
name Martha Dandridge: Moore, Diary, 1:192.
“being left alone”: GW to MW, June 18, 1775, PGW.
“as she calls him”: Martha Dangerfield Bland to Frances Bland Randolph, May 12, 1777, Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society (Newark, July 1933), 152, cited in Thompson, “ ‘As if I had Been a Very Great Somebody,’ ” 42–43 and 43 n.76, MVLA.
“her husband madly”: Idzerda et al., eds., Lafayette in the American Revolution, 1:225.
“damp upon ours?”: GW to Robert Morris, March 2, 1777, PGW.
“in to Philadelphia”: GW to John Hancock, February 5, 1777, PGW.
“of this Month”: GW to John Hancock, March 14, 1777, PGW.
“keeping it out”: GW to Patrick Henry, April 13, 1777, PGW.
“of our Youth”: GW to Landon Carter, April 15, 1777, PGW.
“in their Transports”: GW to John Hancock, April 9, 1777, PGW.
“to the Visitors”: Martha Dangerfield Bland to Frances Bland Randolph, May 12, 1777, Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society (Newark, July 1933), 152, cited in Thompson, “ ‘As If I had Been a Very Great Somebody,’ ” 42–43 and 43 n.76, MVLA.
“Mrs Washington bought”: Caleb Gibbs and Mary Smith, 1776–80, Revolutionary War Household Expenses, entry for April 11, March 1777, GWP.
on May 1: Ibid., entry for May 7, 1777, GWP; GW to Caleb Gibbs, May 1, 1777, and nn. 3 and 5, PGW.
“the American States”: Thomas Mifflin to GW, June 11, 1777, n.2, PGW.
of the city: Virginia Gazette, August 8, 1777; Moore, Diary, 1:477.
“superiority over another”: General Orders, July 6, 1777, PGW.
“of my reasoning”: GW to Philip Schuyler, July 15, 1777, PGW.
“succours can arrive”: GW to John Hancock, July 25, 1777, PGW.
“the fore noon”: GW to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., July 31, 1777, PGW.
“in the Carolinas”: Du Motier, Memoirs of Lafayette, 1:19.
“soon as possible”: GW to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., August 4, 1777, PGW.
a family gathering: Bartholomew Dandridge to GW, August 22, 1777, PGW.
throughout the state: JPC to GW, August 8, 1777, PGW.
“of my abilities”: JPC to GW, September 11, 1777, PGW.
“W[eigh]t 113 oz”: JPC to GW, Postscript, MW to GW, September 11, 1777, PGW.
“in the field”: GW to John Hancock, September 11, 1777, PGW.
and pursuit “impracticable”: GW to Thomas Nelson, September 27, 1777, PGW.
“in our favour”: GW to SW, October 27, 1777, PGW.
“and retreated precipitately”: GW to Benjamin Harrison, October 5, 1777, PGW.
“stroke of providence”: GW to JAW, October 18, 1777, PGW.
“agreeable to her”: JPC to GW, October 26, 1777, PGW.
in due course: GW to JPC, November 14, 1777, PGW.
other business there: JPC to GW, October 26, 1777, PGW.
“much as possible”: GW to SW, October 27, 1777, PGW.
“fat as a pig”: MW to AMB, November 18, 1777, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 174–75.
“as I live”: MW to BB, December 22, 1777, ibid., 175–76.
“full of horses”: LW to GW, December 24, 1777, PGW.
“some time ago”: JPC to GW, January 14, 1778, PGW.
“and uncomfortably provided”: GW to JPC, February 1, 1778, PGW.
“perhaps of Militia?”: GW to Henry Laurens, December 23, 1777, PGW.
“without a murmur”: GW to John Banister, April 21, 1778, PGW.
“none at all”: GW to Henry Laurens, December 23, 1777, PGW.
“of the troops”: General Orders, December 20, 1777, n.1, and December 18, 1777, PGW.
“days provisions beforehand”: GW to Continental Congress Camp Committee, January 29, 1778, PGW.
“objects of importance”: Nathanael Greene to GW, [January 1778], PGW.
and “injurious” insinuations: GW to Henry Laurens, January 31, 1778, PGW.
“only a man”: Henry Laurens to GW, January 27, 1778, n.1, PGW.
“work among us”: Henkles, ed., Robert Morris Correspondence, 165–67.
“Necessary to Conquer”: Lafayette to GW, December 30, 1777, PGW.
“imputation of error”: GW to Henry Laurens, January 31, 1778, PGW.
batteries too soon: Sparks, ed., Writings of Washington, 5:508.
“to insult him”: Henkles, ed., Robert Morris Correspondence, 17–19.
of other states: GW to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., February 6, 1778, PGW.
He dreaded mutiny: GW to William Buchanan, February 7, 1777, PGW.
“them at nights”: GW to Thomas Wharton, April 10, 1778, n.2, PGW.
“of the camp”: Committee at Camp to Henry Laurens, February 12, 1778, LDC.
“one day’s allowance”: General Orders, February 15, 1778, source note, PGW.
went the cry: Duponceau, “Autobiographical Letters,” 180.
“expected in general”: MW to Mercy Otis Warren, March 7, 1778, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 177–78.
cheese, and oysters: Caleb Gibbs and Mary Smith, 1776–80, Revolutionary War Household Expenses, entries for February, March 1778, Series 5, GWP.
“for a song”: Duponceau, “Authobiographical Letters,” 179, 181.
“kind of woman”: GW to Thomas Wharton, April 6, 1778, n.1, PGW.
“a female companion”: Boudinot, Life of Boudinot, 1:106, 115.
“altogether with them”: MW to Mercy Otis Warren, March 7, 1778, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 177–78.
“been a boy”: JPC to MW, April 3, 1778, ibid., 178–79.
of His Excellency: Miller et al., eds., Peale Papers, 1:266, 271.
“certainly wants animation”: GW to JPC, February 1, 1778, n.1, PGW.
“during these troubles”: GW to LW, February 28, 1778, PGW.
scaffolding must remain: LW to GW, April 22, 1778, PGW.
“our own people”: LW to GW, April 8, 1778, PGW.
“not be neglected” : Simms, ed., Laurens Army Correspondence, 114–18, 124–25.
of lesser value: Nicholas Cooke to GW, February 23, 1778, PGW.
“quit of Negroes”: GW to LW, August 15, 1778, PGW.
“hanged than separated”: LW to GW, February 18, 1778, and LW to GW, March 4, 1778, both in PGW.
“stowed in it”: Baker, “Exchange of Major-General Charles Lee,” 31–32.
“allurements of peace”: GW to John Banister, April 21, 1778, PGW.
Congress at York: GW to Henry Laurens, April 20, 1778, PGW.
“huzzaed several times”: Baker, Itinerary, 128.
in the afternoon: GW to Henry Laurens, June 18, 1778, PGW.
“whole advanced body”: GW to Charles Lee, June 26, 1778, PGW.
“their best Troops”: GW to JAW, July 4, 1778, PGW.
“over the Enemy”: Benedict Arnold to GW, June 30, 1778, PGW.
open for shipping: JPC to GW, May 11, 1778, PGW.
“capable of improvement”: GW to JPC, May 26, 1778, PGW.
“one to me”: GW to JPC, August 3, 1778, PGW.
“America better known”: GW to JPC, May 26, 1778, PGW.
by a single manager: JPC to GW, July 15, 1778, PGW.
“at a distance”: GW to JPC, August 3, 1778, PGW.
“honour of France”: John Sullivan to GW, August 23, 1778, n.2, PGW.
“soon be familiarized”: Thomas Nelson to GW, August 11, 1778, PGW.
“Time will show”: GW to Thomas Nelson, August 20, 1778, PGW.
“for an uncertainty”: GW to JPC, October 12, 1778, PGW.
“about the Plantn”: GW to James Hill, October 27, 1778, PGW.
“unfold their views”: GW to Burwell Bassett, October 30, 1778, PGW.
“at this time”: GW to JAW, October 26, 1778, PGW.
“sent her one”: MW to Bartholomew Dandridge, November 2, 1778, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 180–81.
“into these prices”: John Mitchell to GW, October 16, 1778; and John Mitchell to GW, October 20, 1778, both in PGW.
“a private family”: GW to John Mitchell, November 11, 1778, PGW.
of other rooms: GW to Nathanael Greene, December 4, 1778, and n.2, PGW.
on December 20: Showman et al., Papers of Greene, 3:121.
reunited with Martha: GW to Alexander Stirling, December 21, 1778, n.1, PGW.
the State House: GW to Continental Congress Committee of Conference, January 8, 1779, PGW.
“in that country”: Simms, ed., Laurens Army Correspondence, 230–31.
boasted 160 dishes: Greene, Life of Greene, 2:168.
while in Philadelphia: GW to Philip Schuyler, February 11, 1779, PGW.
eldest granddaughter, Bet: MW to JPC and ECPC, March 19, 1779 [wrongly dated by MW 1778], in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 181.
“years that night”: Sarah Bache to Benjamin Franklin, January 17, 1779, PBF 28:1778–79.
trust in “Providence”: GW to Benjamin Harrison, December 18–30, 1778, PGW.
“good a man”: GW to the Magistrates of Philadelphia, December 25, 1778, n., citing text of address made to him, December 29, 1778, PGW.
city had occasioned: GW to John Jay, January 29, 1779, PGW.
“of a medal”: Morgan and Fielding, Washington Life Portraits, 57–58.
“of his Estate”: GW to LW, December 17, 1778, PGW.
loss he was: GW to LW, February 24, 1779, PGW.
“waggon-load of provisions”: GW to John Jay, April 23, 1779, PGW.
“strength and substance”: GW to Gouverneur Morris, May 8, 1779, PGW.
“in that quarter”: MW to JPC and ECPC, March 19, 1778[1779], in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 181.
designed to engender: Thacher, Military Journal, 157.
“in the State”: Henry Knox to William Knox, February 28, 1779, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
at Mount Vernon: GW to John Mitchell, February 17, 1779, PGW.
“pretty little frisk”: Showman et al., eds., Greene Papers, 3:354.
“cannon and musketry”: Thacher, Military Journal, 159.
being June 3: GW to LW, May 29, 1779, n.7, PGW.
“not hurt us”: GW to Nicholas Rogers, May 28, 1779 and n., WGW.
against British attack: GW to JAW, June 20, 1779, WGW.
“in the state”: Harbin, “Letters from John Parke Custis,” 279–80.
“experience many inconveniences”: GW to Philip Schuyler, June 9, 1779, PGW.
“in the night”: GW to Anthony Wayne, July 9, 1779, PGW.
“was taken…£10.10”: Caleb Gibbs and Mary Smith, 1776–80, Revolutionary War Household Expenses, entry for December 25, 1779, Series 5, GWP.
“to our independence”: John Jay to GW, July 20, 1779, LDC.
“of no value”: GW to Edmund Randolph, August 1, 1779, WGW.
fruit for meat: GW to John Cochran, August 16, 1779, WGW.
they expected news: MW to JPC and ECPC, March 19, 1778[1779], in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 181.
“men and provisions”: Henry Laurens to John Laurens, September 27, 1779, LDC.
“Fairfax this winter”: Harbin, “Letters from John Parke Custis,” 278–79.
“Valley Forge scene?”: Henry Laurens to GW, October 7, 1779, LDC.
“free and independent”: August 14, 1779, JCC.
“in her estimation”: GW to Juan de Miralles, October 16, 1779, WGW.
“house in Philadelphia”: GW to John Mitchell, October 17, 1779, Series 4, GWP.
“rooms for servants”: John Mitchell to GW, October 30, 1779, Series 4, GWP.
for the north: GW to Alexander Spotswood, November 10, 1779, Series 4, GWP.
“convenient and agreeable”: John Mitchell to GW, October 30, 1779, Series 4, GWP.
£60 a hundredweight: Harbin, “Letters from John Parke Custis,” 279.
at Mrs. Ford’s: GW to Nathanael Greene, November 30, 1779, Series 4, GWP.
“snow all day”: Parker, “Journal of Lieutenant Robert Parker (concluded),” 23.
“two feet deep”: Thacher, Military Journal, 180.
“the itch [scabies]”: Freeman, Washington, 5:141 and n.79.
“within a fortnight”: Circular to Governors of the Middle States, December 16, 1779, WGW.
did not disband: GW to Philip Schuyler, January 30, 1780, WGW.
was “nearly completed”: General Orders, December 29, 1779, WGW.
on Christmas Day: Caleb Gibbs and Mary Smith, 1776–80, Revolutionary War Household Expenses, entry for December 25, 1779, Series 5, GWP.
wrote Dr. Thacher: Thacher, Military Journal, 221.
succeeded the storm: Showman et al., eds., Greene Papers, 5:252.
“days without either”: GW to Philip Schuyler, January 30, 1780, WGW.
“save his blanket”: Smith, ed., Record of Service, 135.
“hard a winter”: GW to Lafayette, March 18, 1780, PGW/EA.
“they have caught”: GW to Nathanael Greene, January 22, 1780, WGW.
“greater,” he conceded: GW to JPC, January 20, 1780, WGW.
“distressed me exceedingly”: MPC to BB, July 18, 1780, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 183.
“of the other”: GW to Robert Morris, February 4, 1780, WGW.
“on the stage”: John Fell to Robert Morris, March 5, 1780, LDC.
“for this purpose”: GW to John Mitchell, March 30, 1780, PGW/EA.
Lund Washington arrived: GW to John Mitchell, April 8, 1780, PGW/EA.
was much obliged: MPC to Elizabeth Schuyler, [Morristown, 1780], in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 182.
“support the expresses”: Showman et al., eds., Greene Papers, 5:426.
“of the troops”: Chevalier de La Luzerne to GW, April 29, 1780, PGW/EA.
its commander-in-chief: Freeman, Washington, 5:158 and n.113.
to prevent looting: Thacher, Military Journal, 230.
remained at Morristown: GW to John Laurens, April 26, 1780, PGW/EA.
“of gold plate”: Idzerda et al., eds., Lafayette in the American Revolution, 3:3–6.
“we deserve it”: GW to LW, May 19, 1780, PGW/EA.
“such an extremity”: Reed, ed., Life of Reed, 2:207.
“of our allies”: GW to Henry Lee, July 11, 1780, PGW/EA.
“the honour, etc.”: GW to Comte de Rochambeau, July 16, 1780, PGW/EA.
“been without meat”: GW to SW, August 31, 1780, PGW/EA.
“join the army”: GW to JPC, August 6, 1780, PGW/EA.
“to domestic life”: GW to John Cadwalader, October 5, 1780, PGW/EA.
“stay with me”: MW to BB, July 18, 1780, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 183.
“until he had”: Hoyt, “Self-Portrait: Eliza Custis,” 93–94.
“wishing her return”: Ibid., 94.
“for her grandchildren”: Cadou, George Washington Collection, 90.
“soldier more pleasant”: Pennsylvania Gazette, June 21, 1780.
currency—to $300, 634: Esther Reed to GW, July 4, 1780, PGW/EA.
sobriety, he got: GW to Esther Reed, August 10, 1780, PGW/EA.
“forth the scheme”: Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson to Eleanor Conway Madison, August 8, 1780, PTJ/EA.
“to the Soldiers”: Thompson, “As if I had been a Very Great Somebody,” 9–10, MVLA.
“piece of china”: MW to Arthur Lee, September 15, 1780, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 184.
compliments to “Mr Powel”: MW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, September 20, 1780, ibid., 184.
“of domestic life”: Nathanael Greene to GW, November 13, 1780, PGW/EA.
“of the age”: Chinard, ed., Washington as the French Knew Him, 19.
“an agreeable face”: Chastellux, Travels in North America, 1:134.
“handle a Musket”: GW to Catharine Littlefield Greene, December 15, 1780, PGW/EA.
daughter still lived: MW to Charles Willson Peale, December 26, 1780, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 185.
“through the winter”: GW to Henry Knox, January 7, 1781, PGW/EA.
“their grievances from Congress”: GW to Philip Schuyler, January 10, 1781, PGW/EA.
“Arnold commands”: GW to Nathanael Greene, January 2, 1781, PGW/EA.
“Plantation in ruins”: GW to Lund Washington, April 30, 1781, PGW/EA.
“her to do?”: MW to LW[?], May 31, 1781, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 186.
“make her a visit”: GW to JPC, May 31, 1781, PGW/EA.
enemy, however kind: Martha Mortier to MW, June 15, 1781, and nn.1–4, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 186–87.
“loss of time”: Diaries, entry for September 5, 1781, PGW.
“Hd. of Elk”: Diaries, entry for September 9, 1781, PGW.
“and princely entertainment”: Trumbull, “Minutes of Occurrences,” 333.
“lives to encounter”: GW to Benjamin Lincoln, September 15, 1781, PGW/EA.
“York and Gloucester”: GW to Thomas McKean, September 23, 1781, PGW/EA.
“during the night”: Diaries, entry for September 28, 1781, PGW.
“began to play”: Diaries, entry for October 9, 1781, PGW.
“act of destruction”: Thacher, Military Journal, 340.
“scarce any annoyance”: Harrison, ed., Memoir of Tilghman, 105.
“bring down both”: JPC to MW, October 12, 1781, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 187–88.
“and illustrious father”: Henry Knox to Clement Biddle, November 11, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“change in lodgings”: JPC to MW, October 12, 1781, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 187–88.
on October 8: Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox, October 8, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“of the trenches”: Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox, October 16, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“camp very shortly”: Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox, October 16, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“a true Virginian”: Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox, October 23, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“terminate it [the siege]”: Henry Knox to Lucy Flucker Knox, October 16, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
York and Gloucester: Diaries, entry for October 17, 1781, PGW.
“most sanguine Hopes”: GW to Thomas McKean, October 19, 1781, PGW/EA.
“to his children?”: Henry Knox to Lucy Flucker Knox, October 31, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“ ‘It is all over!’ ”: Wraxall, Historical Memoirs, 2:435.
“to be present’ ”: Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox, October 23, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“siege of York”: GW to George William Fairfax, July 10, 1783, PGW/EA.
that disease was: Henry Knox to Clement Biddle, November 11, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“Bassett’s till noon”: Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., “Journal of Occurrences,” entries for November 5 and 6, 1781, Charles Allen Munn Collection, FUL.
“very Hble Ser.”: GW to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., November 6, 1781, PGW/EA.
in “deep distress”: GW to Marquis de Lafayette, November 15, 1781, PGW/EA.
“neglected by it”: GW to John Hanson, November 6, 1781, PGW/EA.
“amiable Mr Custis”: Henry Knox to Clement Biddle, November 11, 1781, Henry Knox Papers, GLC.
“goes with me”: GW to Bartholomew Dandridge, November 19, 1781, PGW/EA.
“better be forgotten”: Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 9 vols. (London, 1761), 3:142, quoted in GW to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., October 1, 1785, PGW.
“Inhabitants of Alexandria”: GW to William Ramsay, November 19, 1781, PGW/EA.
victory at Yorktown: GW to Nathanael Greene, November 16, 1781, PGW/EA.
the next day: Comte de Rochambeau to GW, February 10, 1782, PGW/EA.
“most nobly struggling”: GW to William Ramsay, November 19, 1781, PGW/EA.
“place a camp-bed”: Chastellux, Travels in North America, 2:513–14.
“his own Family”: Cadou, George Washington Collection, 78.
“prepared for War”: GW to Robert Hanson Harrison, November 18, 1781, PGW/EA.
“for the Field”: GW to John Hancock, May 4, 1782, PGW/EA.
the West Indies: Sir Guy Carleton to GW, May 7, 1782, PGW/EA.
with Lucy Knox: Thacher, Military Journal, 371–72.
“in all respects”: Balch, ed., Blanchard Journal, 32.
“Yrs Go: Washington”: GW to MW, October 1, 1782, PGW/EA.
“her annual visit”: GW to Nathanael Greene, October 17, 1782, PGW/EA.
“upon the road”: Ferguson et al., eds., Robert Morris Papers, 6:661.
half-pay for officers: GW to William Heath, February 5, 1783, PGW/EA.
“of the war”: GW to Joseph Jones, December 14, 1782, PGW/EA.
half yards wide: GW to Daniel Parker, January 22, 1783, PGW/EA.
“obtained till yesterday”: MW to Henry Knox, [March 6, 1783], in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 189.
“myself growing blind”: Freeman, Washington, 3:433–54 and nn. 33–39.
“permitted to return”: GW to Marquis de Lafayette, April 5, 1783, PGW/EA.
“occasioned by it”: GW to Alexander Hamilton, March 31, 1783, PGW/EA.
“States of America”: Proclamation for the Cessation of Hostilities, April 18, 1783, PGW/EA.
enlisted—grew ugly: GW to Elias Boudinot, April 22, 1783, PGW/EA.
to their duty: GW to Alexander Hamilton, April 22, 1783, PGW/EA.
“have gained admittance”: GW to Tench Tilghman, April 24, 1783, PGW/EA.
“one of them”: GW to George William Fairfax, July 10, 1783, PGW/EA.
£1,064 1s 0d: Fitzpatrick, George Washington’s Accounts, 97–98.
“my public life”: GW to JAW, June 15, 1783, PGW/EA.
sent to him: GW to William Stephens Smith, May 21, 1783, PGW/EA.
“encumbered with debt”: GW to LW, June 11, 1783, PGW/EA.
“with good Locks”: GW to Daniel Parker, June 18, 1783, PGW/EA.
“painter, was delicious”: Dunlap, Rise and Progress of Arts of Design, 1:253–54.
“Philadelphia is large”: GW to Bushrod Washington, September 22, 1783, PGW/EA.
“come from there”: GW to Tench Tilghman, October 2, 1783, PGW/EA.
of different materials: GW to Clement Biddle, October 2, 1783, PGW/EA.
stood with them: GW to Wakelin Welch, October 30, 1783, PGW/EA.
to her children: GW to LW, September 20, 1783, PGW/EA.
American—government: Washington’s Farewell Address to the Army, November 2, 1783, PGW/EA.
unknown to him: Freeman, Washington, 2:465–68.
“touch of him”: Ibid., 2:474 n.33.
“of public life”: GW to United States Congress, December 23, 1783, PGW/EA.
“be contemplatively disposed”: GW to Charles Thomson, January 22, 1784, PGW.
former commander-in-chief: Charles Thomson to GW, February 7, 1784, PGW.
“our paths, peace”: MW to Hannah Stockton Boudinot, January 15, 1784, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 193–94.
“with public transactions”: GW to Henry Knox, February 20, 1784, PGW.
“retiring within myself”: GW to Marquis de Lafayette, February 1, 1784, PGW.
never been away: Baker, Washington After the Revolution, 7.
“gratify this wish”: GW to Marquis de Lafayette, February 1, 1784, PGW.
“of rural life”: GW to Marquise de Lafayette, April 4, 1784, PGW.
“about me again”: MW to Hannah Stockton Boudinot, January 15, 1784, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 193–94.
“to see him”: Baker, Washington After the Revolution, 7.
any such subsidy: GW to Thomas Mifflin, January 14, 1784, and n.2, PGW.
“see his friends”: MW to Hannah Bushrod Washington, June 22, 1784, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 194–95.
in the war: “Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati,” May 13, 1783, SC.
from the rubric: Hünemörder, Society of the Cincinnati, 91.
“else is wanting?”: MW to FBW, February 25, 1788, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 205–7.
“about absent friends”: MW to FBW, August 7, 1784, ibid., 195–96.
visit would give: Idzerda et al., eds., Lafayette in the American Revolution, 5:237–38.
even in Europe: Diaries, entry for October 4, 1784, PGW.
“had my day”: GW to Marquis de Lafayette, December 8, 1784, PGW.
house that winter: GW to George William Fairfax, February 27, 1785, PGW.
“from public life”: Diaries, entry for June 30, 1785, PGW.
“of hot tea”: Watson, Men and Times of the Revolution, 244.
the household steward: GW to Samuel Fraunces, September 7, 1785, PGW.
“with my own”: GW to Richard Henry Lee, June 22, 1785, PGW.
“and most lasting”: MW to Mercy Otis Warren, June 9, 1785, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 196–97.
summer, is beguiling: Robert Pine, Frances Bassett Washington, [half-length, 1785,] MVLA.
at Mount Vernon: GW to BB, May 23, 1785, PGW.
Nelly, now six: GW to Thomas Montgomerie, June 25, 1785, WGW.
“Great Falls, etc.”: MW to Thomas and Christian Scott Blackburn, October 10, 1785, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 197.
“nostrils,” she recalled: Cadou, George Washington Collection, 120.
Washingtons looked on: Diaries, entry for October 15, 1785, PGW.
“for his pupil”: GW to George William Fairfax, November 10, 1785, PGW.
“and proper attention”: GW to Benjamin Lincoln, February 6, 1786, PGW.
“reading the Law”: Benjamin Lincoln to GW, May 9, 1786, n.1, PGW.
“of 306 pieces”: Henry Lee to GW, July 3, 1786, PGW.
“well resorted tavern”: GW to Mary Ball Washington, February 15, 1787, PGW.
“of public affairs”: GW to Edmund Randolph, March 28, 1787, PGW.
“of one another”: GW to Benjamin Harrison, January 18, 1784, PGW.
“to the contrary”: GW to Edmund Randolph, March 28, 1787, PGW.
“Change of Air, etc.”: Robert Morris to GW, April 23, 1787, PGW.
“to leave home”: GW to Robert Morris, May 5, 1787, PGW.
“him to me”: MW to FBW, February 25, 1788, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 205–6.
“Convention in Philadelphia”: Diaries, entry for May 3, 1787, PGW.
“world of Spirits”: GW to Robert Morris, May 5, 1787, PGW.
“am honored with”: Address to the Continental Congress, [June 16, 1775], PGW.
“inexperience might occasion”: Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention, 1787, 1:3–4.
“School for Scandal”: GW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, July 30, 1787, and n.1, PGW.
“Servt, Eliza. Powel”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, September 8, 1787, PGW.
“which it comes”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, September 8, 1787, and n.1, PGW.
“on the Framers”: GW to Marquis de Lafayette, September 18, 1787, PGW.
“work at each”: Diaries, entry for September 28, 1787, PGW.
“you already stand”: Gouverneur Morris to GW, October 30, 1787, PGW.
“quite as agreeable”: MW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, January 18, 1788, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 200–2.
“at the Shenandoah”: MW to FBW, February 25, 1788, ibid., 205–6.
“its firm establishment”: Alexander Hamilton to GW, August 13, 1788, PGW.
“my own farm”: GW to Alexander Hamilton, August 28, 1788, PGW.
“inconsistency and ambition”: Ibid.
“inspection of it”: GW to James Madison, January 2, 1789, PGW.
“in the evening”: Diaries, entry for January 7, 1789, PGW.
“manage the helm”: GW to Henry Knox, April 1, 1789, PGW.
“to New York”: MW to John Dandridge, April 20, 1789, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 213–14.
“soon follow him”: Ibid.
“the United States”: Article II, Section 1, Constitution of the United States of America…May 29, 1790 (Providence 1790).
“the Executive Department”: First Inaugural Address, Final Version [April 30, 1789], PGW.
“& making worse”: GW to John Adams [May 10, 1789], source note citing Tobias Lear to GAW, May 3, 1789, PGW.
“down to dinner”: GW to David Stuart, June 15, 1790, PGW.
“seeing her here”: GW to John Adams [May 10, 1789], source note citing Tobias Lear to GAW, May 3, 1789, PGW.
“new general Government”: GW to John Adams [May 10, 1789], PGW.
“for Mr Adams”: Beard, ed., Maclay Journal, 29.
“accept no invitations”: Alexander Hamilton to GW, May 5, 1789, PGW.
might be permissible: GW to John Adams [May 10, 1789], PGW.
“at his Levees”: John Adams to GW, May 17, 1789, PGW.
“vortex I moved”: GW to David Stuart, July 26, 1789, PGW.
“Mount-Vernon once more”: William Heth to GW, May 23, 1789, PGW.
“most lamentable situation”: Robert Lewis, “A Journey from Fredericksburg Virginia to New-York,” May 13–20, 1789, ms., MVLA.
“asked to supper”: James McHenry to GW, May 24, 1789, PGW.
“of her foot”: MW to FBW, June 8, 1789, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 215–16.
“and sociable kind”: GW to David Stuart, June 15, 1790, PGW.
“& Ice Creams”: Mitchell, ed., New Letters of Abigail Adams, 19.
“Majesties of Britain”: Ibid., 13–15.
“before his door”: James McHenry to GW, June 28, 1789, n.1, PGW.
“far behind him”: Mitchell, ed., New Letters of Abigail Adams, 19.
“in his Carriage”: GW to David Stuart, July 26, 1789, and n.28, PGW.
“give it me”: Mitchell, ed., New Letters of Abigail Adams, 51.
“and thanked him”: Pierce Butler to GW, August 6, 1789, n.1, PGW.
“necklace for ladies”: Burgess Ball to GW, August 25, 1789, n.3, PGW.
“pepper-and-salt coloured clothes”: Cadou, George Washington Collection, 217.
for the children: MW to FBW, June 8, 1789, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 215–16.
to begin “Musick”: MW to FBW [summer 1789], ibid., 217.
to teach Nelly: Decatur, Private Affairs of Washington, 33, 35.
“in all things”: Custis, Recollections, 408 n.
in “drawing etc.”: Decatur, Private Affairs of Washington, 85–87.
behind Trinity Church: Ibid., 102
and Henry Knox: Tobias Lear to GW, October 28, 1790, n.2, PGW.
offered her grandchildren: MW to Mercy Otis Warren, December 26, 1789, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 223–24.
with young friends: Decatur, Private Affairs of Washington, 89–90, 62–63.
and Mrs. Schuyler: Diaries, entry for November 24, and n., PGW.
“upon public Business”: John Adams to GW, May 17, 1789, PGW.
“a great deal”: MW to FBW, October 23, 1789, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 219–21.
to “the concert”: MW to Abigail Adams [October 1789], ibid., 219.
“others you please”: MW to Abigail Adams [November 4, 1789], ibid., 221.
“safety and happiness”: Thanksgiving Proclamation [October 3, 1789], PGW.
“people at Church”: Diaries, entry for November 26, 1789, PGW.
“upon our disposition”: MW to Mercy Otis Warren, December 26, 1789, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 223–24.
on February 3: Diaries, entry for February 3, 1790, PGW.
her aunt’s “cabinet”: MW to FBW [March 22, 1790], in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 225.
“the other house”: Tobias Lear to GW, September 12, 1790, PGW.
“apples, peaches, nuts”: Beard, ed., Maclay Journal, 136–37.
“ruin the Nation”: LW to GW, April 28, 1790, PGW.
second “Great Father”: Trumbull, Autobiography, 165–66.
“greatly distressed me”: Mitchell, ed., New Letters of Abigail Adams, 49.
“life despaired of”: Beard, ed., Maclay Journal, 269.
“day to me”: Diaries, entry for July 5, 1790, PGW.
“will,” she wrote: MW to FBW [July 1789], in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 217.
family’s private use: GW to Tobias Lear, September 5, 1790, PGW.
“revert to them”: GW to Tobias Lear, October 27, 1790, PGW.
“Housewifery and taste”: Tobias Lear to GW, October 31, 1790, PGW.
she was timorous: GW to Frances Bassett Washington, July 28[–29], 1793, PGW.
“completed this year”: Adams, ed., Letters of Mrs. Adams, 2:207–9.
steward’s room opposite: Tobias Lear to GW, October 31, 1790, PGW.
“always will be”: GW to Tobias Lear, September 9, 1790, PGW.
Thursday “Congress dinner”: Custis, Recollections, 423.
“as an assistant”: GW to Tobias Lear, November 22, 1790, PGW.
“profusely at his”: GW to Tobias Lear, September 20, 1790, PGW.
“large a family”: Tobias Lear to GW, September 12, 1790, PGW.
“yield to that”: MW to Janet Livingston Montgomery, January 29, 1791, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 229–30.
“and butter, etc.”: Jeremy, ed., Wansey Journal, 99–100.
“would suit best”: GW to Tobias Lear, June 19, 1791, PGW.
“claim their freedom”: Tobias Lear to GW, April 5, 1791, PGW.
“becoming resident therein”: “An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery” (March 1, 1780), in Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1:492–93.
“in their power”: Tobias Lear to GW, April 5, 1791, PGW.
“on their return”: Tobias Lear to GW, April 24, 1791, PGW.
“out of the State”: Tobias Lear to GW, April 24, 1791, and nn.2–7, PGW.
president came north: Tobias Lear to GW, May 15, 1791, PGW.
“as to Latin”: Tobias Lear to GW, April 24, 1791, PGW.
“under his instruction”: MW to Abigail Adams, January 25, 1791, FO; GW to Betty Washington Lewis and Sarah Carlyle Herbert, April 26, 1792, PGW.
purchased for Nelly: Decatur, Private Affairs of Washington, 200, 207, 220, 240, 253, 292.
Congress to the city: Britt, Nothing More Agreeable, 30–32, 98, 105.
“Indian rubber 1/10”: Decatur, Private Affairs of Washington, 189, 226, 293.
“they are slaves”: Ibid., 315.
“of their Houses”: GW to Tobias Lear, June 26, 1791, n.1, PGW.
“almost past service”: Diaries, entry for February 18, 1786, PGW.
“work for themselves”: MW to FBW, August 29, 1791, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 233.
them to do: MW to FBW, August 29, 1791, ibid., 233.
“quite a Woman”: GW to Tobias Lear, October 10, 1790, PGW.
“always in use”: GW to Betty Washington Lewis, October 7, 1792, PGW.
“the Birth night”: Harriot Washington to GW, January 5, [1793], and Harriot Washington to GW, January [7], [1794], both in PGW.
“desirous of improvement”: GW to Tobias Lear, October 10, 1790, PGW.
“Otaheitian [Tahitian] dress”: Decatur, Private Affairs of Washington, 265, 226, 318–19, 322–23.
“I was down”: MW to FBW, June 15, 1794, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 268–69.
for outdoor activities: Decatur, Private Affairs of Washington, 290, 313.
“of Architectural abilities”: GW to Tobias Lear, July 30, 1792, PGW.
“their number myself”: GW to Thomas Jefferson, April 1, 1791, PGW.
“already acquainted with”: GW to Tobias Lear, September 21, 1792, PGW.
a “fair experiment”: Tobias Lear to GGW, July 21, 1792, PGW.
“a longer continuance”: Thomas Jefferson’s Conversation with GW, October 1, [1792], PGW.
“put them altogether”: GW to Anthony Whitting, October 14, 1792, PGW.
and Mr. Madison: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Conversation with Washington, February 7, 1793, PGW.
“of your Sufferings?”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, November 17, 1792, PGW.
“make me unpopular”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, December 28, 1792, AFP.
“away upon me”: GW to Henry Lee, January 20, 1793, PGW.
“of responsible persons”: GW to FBW, February 24, 1793, PGW.
“Envious and Malignant”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, November 17, 1792, PGW.
“all these occasions”: Jackman, “A Young Englishman Reports,” 118.
“people, &c. &c.”: “To the Noblesse and Courtiers of the United States…,” General Advertiser (Philadelphia), January 2, 1793.
“modern republican Principles”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, January 2, 1793, AFP.
“conform to it”: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Conversation with Washington, February 7, 1793, PGW.
“drawn into it”: Tobias Lear to GW, April 8, 1793, PGW.
“too refined caution”: Jackman, “A Young Englishman Reports,” 104.
“bad, becoming worse”: GW to Thomas Jefferson, March 1, 1792, PGW.
“the belligerent powers”: Neutrality Proclamation, [April 22, 1793], PGW.
“from their smell”: Flexner, Doctors on Horseback, 101.
“into the Country”: Henry Knox to GW, September 15, 1793, PGW.
“& more fatal”: GW to Tobias Lear, September 25, 1793, PGW.
“of our Friends”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, September 9, 1793, PGW.
as many weeks: PSC; data for Lieut. John Wigton, d. 1793, Ancestry.com.
“the Post Office”: Oliver Wolcott to GW, October 20, 1793, PGW.
“have been propagated”: GW to William Pearce, December 23, 1793, PGW.
“of any infection”: Samuel Fraunces to GW, October 23, 1793, PGW.
“dress of the city”: MW to FBW, January 14, 1794, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 254–55.
“spend their time agreeably”: MW to FBW, February 10, 1794, ibid., 256–57.
“younger sister [Nelly]”: MW to FBW, February 15, 1794, ibid., 257–58.
“a deserving girl”: MW to FBW, March 2, 1794, ibid., 259–60.
“Pinnacle of Happiness”: GW to Elizabeth Parke Custis, September 14, 1794, PGW.
“myself and family”: Elizabeth Parke Custis to GW, September 7, 1794, PGW.
“he moves in”: GW to Elizabeth Parke Custis, September 14, 1794, PGW.
he had written: GW to FBW, February 24, 1793, PGW.
“keep a house”: GW to FBW, March 17, 1793, PGW.
“for the rooms”: GW to William Pearce, January 12, 1794, PGW.
“manage it right”: MW to FBW, September 15, 1794, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 274–75.
“in matrimonial concerns”: MW to FBW, September 29, 1794, ibid., 276–77.
“his principal ailment”: GW to William Pearce, January 12, 1794, PGW.
“may always be had”: MW to FBW, November 30, 1794, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 281.
“better of it”: MW to FBW, April 6, 1795, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 283–85.
life in Philadelphia: Brady, Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 21.
impresario Filippo Trisobio: Ibid., 32; Britt, Nothing More Agreeable, 54.
a “gloomy mortal”: Hoyt, “Self-Portrait: Eliza Custis,” 96.
“them every day”: MW to EPC, January 3, 1796, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 288–90.
“look over them”: MW to EPC, January 14, 1796, ibid., 290–91.
“to at all”: MW to FBW, September 29, 1794, ibid., 276–77.
“of the senate”: Response to the Boston Selectmen, [July 28, 1795], PGW.
“repose in me”: GW to Alexander Hamilton, May 15, 1796, [First Draft] Farewell Address, PGW/EA.
“detestable of mankind”: Cutler and Cutler, Life of Manasseh Cutler, 2:56–57.
“answer the End”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, March 1, 1796, AFP.
“80 feet Diameter”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, February 23, 1796, AFP.
“of his constituents”: Simpson, Lives of Washington and Jefferson, 256.
“would be Aristocratical”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, February 23, 1796, AFP.
“Nuptials are Solemnized”: GW to Thomas Law, February 10, 1796, WGW.
“proof of this”: Barratt and Miles, Gilbert Stuart, 152–53.
“Ideas with Fortitude”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, June 1, 1796, PGW/EA.
her native Virginia: Frederick Lawler, Jr., “Oney Judge,” with link to two 1840s articles on Oney Judge, PHP.
“violent measures”: GW to Joseph Whipple, November 28, 1796, and Joseph Whipple to GW, December 22, 1796, both in PGW/EA.
“always in Cash”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, February 8, 1797, PGW/EA.
“and Miss Custis”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, March 11[–13], 1797, PGW.
“to my release”: Nicholls, “Henrietta Liston’s Journal,” 516.
“all possible happiness”: Sparks, Life of Washington, 477.
“an arduous task”: Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Gray Otis, [February] 1797, AP/EA.
“persons and Characters”: Abigail Adams to MW, February 9, 1797, AP/EA.
“at dancing assemblies”: MW to Abigail Adams, February 20, 1797, AP/EA.
“more tranquil theater”: MW to Catharine Littlefield Greene Miller, March 3, 1797, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 297.
“cloudy all day”: Diaries, entry for March 16, 1797, PGW.
“a constant serenading”: Brady, Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 31.
“your usual Accuracy”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, March 11[–13], 1797, PGW.
to the flames: GW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, March 26, 1797, PGW.
to acquire them: GW to Bartholomew Dandridge, [March 3, 1797], PGW.
“to part with”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, February 8, 1797, PGW/EA.
no longer required: Inventory of Goods in President’s House, February 1797, PGW/EA; and GW to Mary White Morris, May 1, 1797, PGW.
of the president: Tobias Lear to GW, March 15, 1797, PGW.
“mind & body”: GW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, March 26, 1797, PGW.
“a decaying state”: MW to David Humphreys, June 26, 1797, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 304–5.
“into the Cellar”: GW to Bartholomew Dandridge, December 13, 1797, PGW.
and much else: Tobias Lear to GW, March 20, 1797, and n.1, PGW.
“authority over them”: MW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, May 1, 1797, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 301–2.
“of my time”: MW to Betsy Aylett Henley, August 20, 1797, ibid., 307.
“of our Duetts”: Brady, Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 32.
“things œconomically used”: GW to Samuel Fraunces, September 7, 1785, PGW.
“am sadly plagued”: MW to Elizabeth Dandridge Henley, August 20, 1797, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 307.
to no avail: GW to Frederick Kitt, January 10, 1798, PGW.
“not yet supplied”: GW to George Lewis, November 13, 1797, PGW.
“variety of visitors”; MW to David Humphreys, June 26, 1797, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 304.
“and going likewise”: MW to Sarah Cary Fairfax, May 17, 1798, ibid., 314–17.
“this Terrestrial Globe”: GW to Lawrence Augustine Washington, September 3, 1797, PGW.
“very acceptable Service”: GW to Lawrence Lewis, August 4, 1797, PGW.
“firmness of mind”: Latrobe, Journal, 57–58.
“young adopted brother”: Brady, Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 39.
“even in Europe”: Niemcewicz, Under Their Vine and Fig Tree, 97.
“upon your secrecy”: Brady, Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 36.
“spinster for life”: Ibid., 39.
“Grandmama so lonesome”: Ibid., 43.
“meanness and irregularity”: Virginia Kays Creesy, “George Washington as a Princeton Parent,” in Merritt, The Best of PAW, 24–28.
accounts to pay: GW to Samuel Stanhope Smith, October 9, 1797, PGW.
“you to them”: GW to GWPC, January 7, 1798, PGW.
“always with him”: GW to David Stuart, January 22, 1798, PGW.
distance “too heartrending”: Ibid.
“you omit this”: GW to GWPC, June 13, 1798, PGW.
“prudent it will be”: GW to GWPC, April 15, 1798, PGW.
“wealth,” she wrote: Brady, Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 51–52, 48–49, 56, 55.
“of that place!”: GW to GWPC, June 1798, PGW.
“from my thoughts”: GWPC to GW, June 17, 1798, PGW.
“a momentary impression”: GW to GWPC, May 10 and July 24, 1798, PGW.
“posture of defence”: November 23, 1797, SJ.
“many an Army”: John Adams to GW, June 22, 1798, PGW.
the revolutionary conflict: GW to John Adams, July 4, 1798, PGW.
honored by Nelly: GW to James McHenry, July 27, 1798, and n.1; and James McHenry to GW, August 13, 1798, nn.3 and 4, both in PGW.
Reverend Davis officiated: Diaries, entry for July 4, 1798, and n., PGW.
“of the U. States”: GW to Henry Knox, August 9, 1798, PGW.
would be crucial: GW to Alexander Hamilton, July 14, 1798, PGW.
“excluded from Company”: GW to David Stuart, August 13, 1798, PGW.
“good,” the general wrote: GW to John McDowell, September 2, 1798, n.2, PGW.
“of any one”: GW to David Stuart, December 30, 1798, PGW.
“until past nine”: GW to Lawrence Lewis, December 2, 1798, PGW.
were also his hosts: Diaries, entries for November 16–December 2, 1798, PGW.
“Third Street, afterwards”: GW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, November 17, 1798, PGW.
day, a Sunday: GW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, December 1, 1798, PGW.
the day before: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, December 3, 1798, PGW.
“in this City?”: GW to Elizabeth Willling Powel, December 4, 1798, PGW.
“affectionate afflicted Friend”: Elizabeth Willing Powel to GW, December 7, 1798, PGW.
“obliged Hble Servant”: GW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, December 7, 1798, PGW.
“our daily labour”: GW to Elizabeth Willing Powel, December 9, 1798, PGW.
“be too prone”: GW to David Stuart, December 30, 1798, PGW.
“but not expensive”: GW to James McHenry, July 14, 1799, and n.2, PGW.
“of friendship only”: GW to James McHenry, February 1799, PGW.
sister was romancing: GW to Bartholomew Dandridge, January 25, 1799, PGW.
“my first remembrance”: Brady, Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 58–60.
for the nuptials: GW to Lawrence Lewis, January 23, 1799, PGW.
“Mr Lawe Lewis”: Diaries, entry for February 22, 1799, PGW.
followed the wedding: Brady, Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 62.
mind his mother: Vail, ed., “A Dinner at Mount Vernon,” 76–77.
“is quite well”: Brady, Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, 61–64.
it was ready: GW to Lawrence Lewis, September 20, 1799, PGW.
of a neighbor: GW to Roger West, September 19, 1799, and n.1, PGW.
“showed to them”: MW to Frances Bassett Washington, May 24, 1795, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 287–88.
“& dangerous” precedent: GW to Burwell Bassett, Jr., August 11, 1799, and n.1, PGW.
at the estate: George Washington’s Last Will and Testament [July 9, 1799], PGW.
“affected his spirits”: Nicholls, “Henrietta Liston’s Journal,” 517.
“will afford them”: GW to Alexandria General Assemblies Managers, November 12, 1799, PGW.
“settled cold Rain”: Diaries, entries for November 20, 27, December 9, 11–12, 1799, PGW.
“upon his hair”: I. The Journal Account, [December 15, 1799], PGW.
“but not hard”: Diaries, entry for December 13, 1799, PGW.
“would permit him”: II. The Diary Account, December 14, 1799, PGW.
“not survive it”: I. The Journal Account, [December 15, 1799], and II. The Diary Account, December 14, 1799, both in PGW.
“half a pint”: II. The Diary Account, December 14, 1799, PGW; Thompson, “ ‘The Lowest Ebb of Misery,’ ” 15 and n.20, MVLA.
“was seriously alarming”: I. The Journal Account, [December 15, 1799], PGW.
for safekeeping: II. The Diary Account, December 14, 1799, PGW.
vault once more: Washington, Letters and Recollections, 137.
“softened by tears”: Tobias Lear to Mary Lincoln Lear, December 16, 1799, typescript, MVLA.
“floods of tears”: McCallister [Clark], “Law’s Description of the Last Illness,” 29.
“or funeral Oration”: George Washington’s Last Will and Testament, [July 9, 1799], PGW.
“our nation mourns”: Lee, Funeral Oration, 10.
Mrs. Washington weep: Mitchell, ed., New Letters of Abigail Adams, 227.
“and political life”: John Adams to MW, December 27, 1799, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 327–28; December 23, 1799, HJ.
told her sister: Mitchell, ed., New Letters of Abigail Adams, 226–28.
“of public duty”: MW to John Adams, December 31, 1799, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 332–33; January 8, 1800, SJ.
after Martha’s death: Clark, “Doctor and Mrs. William Thornton,” 91–92.
“during her life”: March 28, 1800, HJ.
“friends, however sincere”: MW to Janet Montgomery, April 5, 1800, in Fields, “Worthy Partner,” 371–72.
“her heart breaking”: Nicholls, “Henrietta Liston’s Journal,” 519–20.
on the estate: Thompson, “ ‘To Follow her Departed Friend,’ ” 15 n.29, MVLA; ibid., 12–16.
“uncovered and motionless”: Morris, Autobiography, 12.
“has ever experienced”: Thompson, “ ‘To Follow her Departed Friend,’ ” 7 n.16, MVLA.
“their best days”: Harrison, Philadelphia Merchant, 113.
“every day face”: John Pintard, ms. Diary, entry for July 31, 1801, NYHS.
had her memorial: Robert Field, Martha Washington, [miniature], 1801; Field, George Washington, [miniature], 1801, both in YUAG.
to each other: Adams, Life and Writings of Sparks, 2:46–47.
who was ill: Ford, “Diary of Mrs. William Thornton,” 174–76.
long in coming: McCallister [Clark], “This Melancholy Scene,” 15.
the same day: Harrison, Philadelphia Merchant, 112; Thompson, “ ‘To Follow her Departed Friend,’ ” 18, MVLA; McCallister [Clark], “This Melancholy Scene,” 15.
“on every occasion”: Alexandria Advertiser, May 25, 1802.
after his birth: Torbert, Eleanor Calvert, 99–100; Ribblett, Nelly Custis, 67.
“the Vineyard Inclosure”: GW, Last Will and Testament, [July 9, 1799], PGW.