52651Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
After GW in December 1769 secured from Governor Botetourt and the Virginia council authorization...
52652Errata (Washington Papers)
Volume 1—p. xxiv, line 33: 1949–57 is 1948–57; p. 55, n.3: Thomas Nelson (1716–1782) is Thomas...
52653Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
In preparation for the writing of this letter, GW composed a list of topics which he wished to be...
52654Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The committee of conference that Congress appointed on 30 Sept. arrived at Cambridge on 15 Oct....
52655Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The following opinions concerning the defense of Philadelphia and the Delaware River apparently...
52656Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The American dispositions on the east side of Brandywine Creek probably were complete by the...
52657Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The network of spies and couriers that has come to be known as the Culper ring, on account of the...
52658Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Following his receipt of Congress’s official notification that Vice Admiral d’Estaing had arrived...
52659Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The effectiveness of an army rests in large measure on the quality of its officers. GW recognized...
52660Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Since 1778, GW had relied on the Culper spy network for intelligence from inside New York City....
52661Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
German lieutenant general Wilhelm von Knyphausen temporarily commanded at New York while British...
52662Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
GW suspected that British commander in chief Henry Clinton would immediately launch an offensive...
52663Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Lieutenant General Rochambeau had suggested in August that he and Rear Admiral Ternay meet GW to...
52664Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Maj. John André’s sterling career as a British army officer ended abruptly because of his role in...
52665Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Fig. 2. Engraving of Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold by H. B. Hall from a portrait by John Trumbull....
52666Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold recruited Joshua Hett Smith—who came from a family with significant...
52667Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The unwillingness of the French expeditionary force to leave Rhode Island to combine with the...
52668Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
E ditorial N ote The Society of the Cincinnati was instituted at Fishkill-on-Hudson on 13 May...
52669Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
On 15 May 1784 the Virginia house of delegates agreed “to draw up an address to his excellency...
52670Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
With the aid of Sir James Jay, Lady Huntingdon in 1784 developed a proposal to send out from...
52671Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, GW devoted considerable time and...
52672Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
General Lincoln did not complete this extended account of Shays’ Rebellion for GW until 4 Mar....
52673Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Editorial Note David Humphreys wrote GW from France on 30 Sept. 1784 about the utility of having...
52674Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
[New York, 30 April 1789] By early 1789 GW reluctantly accepted the inevitability of his election...
52675Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Under the terms of the Residence Act, GW was directed to select the site for the permanent seat...
52676Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The bill to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States had not yet been...
52677Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
GW began considering the schedule and route of his intended Southern Tour at least as early as...
52678Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
GW’s nomination on 22 Dec. 1791 of Thomas Pinckney, Gouverneur Morris, and William Short as...
52679Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
On 16 Jan. 1792 the U.S. House of Representatives began considering GW’s message of 11 Jan. and...
52680Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Congress’s presentation of “An Act for an apportionment of Representatives among the several...
52681Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
I Alexander Hamilton’s Outline for GW’s Annual Address to Congress, November 1793 II Edmund...
52682From George Washington to William Pearce (Washington Papers)
[This letter was misdated in the volume and will be included in Presidential Series 17 .]
52683GW’s Farewell Address: Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
In the preparation of his farewell address to the American people, GW, as he often did for...
52684Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
After making his decision to retire from office at the conclusion of his second term as...
52685Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
GW’s Farewell Address, published on 19 Sept. 1796, officially announced his decision not to seek...
52686Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney spent six weeks in...
52687Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
[9 July 1799] George Washington prepared his will alone, without, as he attested, any...