Washington [571]
30. Ibid., 178.
31. Wiencek, Imperfect God, 150.
32. DiariesA, 128.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., 129. Diary entry for May 19, 1769.
35. Ibid.
36. WWR, 133. Letter to Robert Cary & Co., July 25, 1769.
37. Flexner, George Washington, 1:315.
38. Longmore, Invention of George Washington, 97.
39. WWR,121. Letter to John Posey, June 24, 1767.
40. Longmore, Invention of George Washington, 104.
41. Freeman, George Washington, 3:246-47.
42. Flexner, George Washington, 1:289.
43. Ellis, His Excellency, 56.
44. DiariesA,151. Diary entry for October 19, 1770.
45. Ibid., 150. Diary entry for October 14, 1770.
46. PWC,9:460. Letter to George Muse, January 29, 1774.
47. Ibid., 9:461.
48. WWR,139. Letter to Thomas Johnson, July 20, 1770.
49. Ibid., 138.
50. Ibid.
51. Unger,Unexpected George Washington, 77.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE ASIATIC PRINCE
1. MTV. “Early Descriptions Ante 1800.” Journal of Nathanael Greene, September 12, 1783.
2. Griswold, Washington’s Gardens at Mount Vernon, 20.
3. Brady, Martha Washington, 185.
4. Diaries, 2:141. Diary entry for April 14, 1769.
5. PWC,8:240. Letter to John Armstrong, August 18, 1769.
6. Ibid., 8:496. Letter to Jonathan Boucher, July 9, 1771.
7. Ibid., 8:89-90. Letter to Jonathan Boucher, May 30, 1768.
8. Ibid., 8:96. Letter from Jonathan Boucher, June 16, 1768.
9. Ibid., 8:122-24. Letter from Jonathan Boucher, August 2, 1768.
10. Ibid., 8:227. Letter from Jonathan Boucher, July 20, 1769.
11. Ibid., 8:339. Letter from Jonathan Boucher, May 21, 1770.
12. Ibid., 8:412. Letter to Jonathan Boucher, December 16, 1770.
13. Ibid., 8:414. Letter from Jonathan Boucher, December 18, 1770.
14. Ibid., 8:426. Letter to Jonathan Boucher, January 2, 1771.
15. Ibid., 8:348. Letter to Jonathan Boucher, June 2, 1770.
16. Freeman, George Washington, 3:312.
17. PWC,8:415. Letter from Jonathan Boucher, December 18, 1770.
18. WWR, 144. Letter to Benedict Calvert, April 3, 1773.
19. Flexner, George Washington, 1:228.
20. PWC,10:349.
21. PWR,3:189.
22. PWC, 9:49. Letter to Jonathan Boucher, May 21, 1772.
23. Custis, Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, 528.
24. Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 56.
25. Diaries,3:182.
26. PWC, 9:266.
27. Unger, Unexpected George Washington, 84.
28. MTV. “Early Descriptions 1801-1841.” Charles Willson Peale Journal, May-June 1804.
29. PWC,9:243. Letter to Burwell Bassett, June 20, 1773.
30. Thompson, “In the Hands of a Good Providence,” 94.
31. Ibid., 121.
32. Flexner, George Washington, 1:247.
33. Wiencek, Imperfect God, 10.
34. PWC,10:109. Letter to Bryan Fairfax, July 4, 1774.
35. Dalzell and Dalzell, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, 79.
36. PWC, 9:326. Letter from Dr. Myles Cooper, September 20, 1773.
37. Ibid., 9:406-7. Letter to Myles Cooper, December 15, 1773.
38. Ibid., 9:212. Letter from Jonathan Boucher, April 8, 1773.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A SHOCK OF ELECTRICITY
1. Diaries,3:166.
2. Stoll, Samuel Adams, 115.
3. Ferling, “Myths of the American Revolution.”
4. PWC,2:179. Letter from Thomas Gage, November 23, 1755.
5. Palmer, George Washington and Benedict Arnold, 69.
6. Flexner, George Washington, 1:320.
7. Ellis, His Excellency, 58.
8. Longmore, Invention of George Washington, 123.
9. DiariesA,189.
10. PWC,10:119-25. “Fairfax County Resolves,” July 18, 1774.
11. WWR,154. Letter to Bryan Fairfax, July 20,1774.
12. Flexner, George Washington, 1:322.
13. Ellis, His Excellency, 64.
14. PWC,10:96-97. Letter to George William Fairfax, June 10, 1774.
15. Ibid., 10:96.
16. Ibid., 10:97.
17. Ibid., 10:109-10. Letter to Bryan Fairfax, July 4, 1774.
18. Ibid., 10:110.
19. WWR,155-56. Letter to Bryan Fairfax, July 20, 1774.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., 156.
22. Ibid., 157. Letter to Bryan Fairfax, August 24, 1774.
23. DiariesA,190.
24. Burns and Dunn, George Washington, 21.
25. Longmore, Invention of George Washington, 132.
26. Brady, Martha Washington, 92.
27. McCullough, John Adams, 86.
28. Wiencek, Imperfect God, 193.
29. Flexner, George Washington, 1:324.
30. Longmore, Invention of George Washington, 138.