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...