18 . PWP, 4:567. Letter from the Marquis de Lafayette, January 12, 1790.

19 . Ibid., 6:231. Letter to Rochambeau, August 10, 1790.

20 . Ibid., 6:233. Letter to Lafayette, August 11, 1790.

21 . Unger, Lafayette, 263.

22 . PWP,6:317. Letter from Lafayette, August 23, 1790.

23 . Nelson, Thomas Paine, 210.

24 . Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson, 84.

25 . Nelson, Thomas Paine, 217.

26 Ibid., 216.

27 . PWP,10:88.

28 . Weber, Queen of Fashion, 239.

29 . WWR,780. Letter to Lafayette, July 28, 1791.

30 . Unger, Lafayette, 277

31 . PWP, 8:24. “Agreement of the Proprietors of the Federal District,” March 30, 1791.

32 . Berg, Grand Avenues, 103.

33 . Bordewich, Washington, 73.

34 . PWP, 8:288. Letter from Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, June 22, 1791.

35 . Ibid., 4:15. Letter from Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, September 11, 1789.

36 . Berg, Grand Avenues, 103.

37 . MTV. “Early Descriptions Ante 1800.”

38 . WWR,785. Letter to Tobias Lear, October 14, 1791.

39 . Ibid., 787. “Third Annual Message to Congress,” October 25, 1791.

40 . PWP, 9:239. Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1791.

41 . Ibid., 245. Letter to Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, December 2, 1791.

42 . Berg, Grand Avenues, 175.

43 . PWP,9:469. Letter to Thomas Jefferson, January 18, 1792.

44 . Schutz and Adair, Spur of Fame, 103.

45 . PWP, 10:18. Letter to Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1792.

46 . Bordewich, Washington, 101.

47 . WWR,745. Letter to Arthur St.Clair, October 6, 1789.

48 . Callahan, Henry Knox, 317.

49 . WWR, 768. Letter to Henry Knox, November 19, 1790.

50 . PWP, 8:275.

51 . Ibid., 360. Letter to David Humphreys, July 20, 1791.

52 . WWR,774. “To the Chiefs of the Seneca Nation,” December 29, 1790.

53 . Callahan, Henry Knox, 319.

54 . WWR,687. Letter to Richard Henderson, June 19, 1788.

55 . Kohn, Eagle and Sword, 115.

56 . Ibid.

57 . Freeman, George Washington, 6:336.

58 . PWP, 9:275.

59 . Ibid., 10:71. “Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum of a Meeting of the Heads of the Executive Departments,” March 9, 1792.

60 Ibid., 10:156.

61 . Kohn, Eagle and Sword, 116.

62 . PWP, 9:505.

63 . Ibid., 10:169.

64 . Ibid.

65 . Callahan, Henry Knox, 322.

CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE: A TISSUE OF MACHINATIONS

1 . PWP, 5:468. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, June 3, 1790.

2 . Ellis, American Creation, 165.

3 Ibid., 173.

4 . PWP, 8:185. Letter from Thomas Jefferson, May 15, 1791.

5 . Wilentz, Rise of American Democracy, 49.

6 . McDonald, Presidency of George Washington, 92.

7 . Diaries,6:12. Diary entry for January 22, 1790.

8 . Decatur, Private Affairs of George Washington, 266.

9 . Burns and Dunn, George Washington, 84.

10 Ibid., 87.

11 . Ibid.

12 . PWP, 8:359. Letter to David Humphreys, July 20, 1791.

13 . Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 357.

14 Ibid., 358.

15 . Ibid., 359.

16 . Ibid.

17 Ibid.

18 Ibid., 380.

19 Ibid., 381.

20 . Ibid.

21 Ibid., 382.

22 . Fleming, “Wall Street’s First Collapse.”

23 . PWP,5:355. Letter from Lund Washington, April 28, 1790.

24 . Berg, Grand Avenues, 188.

25 . PWP, 9:483. Letter from “Anonymous,” ca. January 1792.

26 . Ibid., 10:174. Letter from “Anonymous,” March 1792.

27 Ibid.

28 . PWP, 10:6-7. “Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum of Conversations with Washington,” March 1, 1792.

29 Ibid., 10:8.

30 . Ellis, American Creation, 192.

31 . PWP, 10:8. “Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum of Conversations with Washington,” March 1, 1792.

32 . Ibid.

33 . Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 400.

34 . Decatur, Private Affairs of George Washington, 268.

35 . Wiencek, Imperfect God, 362.

36 . PWP, 10:314. Letter to Elizabeth Willing Powel, April 23, 1792.

37 . Ibid., 10:349. “Madison’s Conversations with Washington,” May 5, 1792.

38 Ibid., 10:350.

39 Ibid., 10:352.

40 Ibid., 10:351.

41 . Ibid., 10:400. Letter to James Madison, May 20, 1792.

42 Ibid., 10:401.

43 . Brookhiser, Founding Father, 84.

44 . PWP, 10:410. Letter from Thomas Jefferson, May 23, 1792.

45 Ibid., 10:412.

46 . Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 401.

47 . PWP, 10:479. Letter from James Madison, June 20, 1792.

48 . Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 402.

49 . PWP, 10:535. “Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington,” July 10, 1792.

50 Ibid., 10:536.

51 . Ibid., 558. Letter from Tobias Lear, July 21, 1792.

52 . Ibid., 10:624. Letter from Tobias Lear, August 5, 1792.

53 . Ibid., 10:631. Letter from Edmund Randolph, August 5, 1792.

54 . Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 403.

55 . WWR,809. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, July 29, 1792.

56 Ibid., 811.

57 . PWP,10:594. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, July 30, 1792.

58 . Ibid., 11:12-13. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, August 18, 1792.

59 . Ibid., 11:45-46. Letter to Edmund Randolph, August 26, 1792.

60 . WWR,819. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, August 26, 1792.

61 . Ibid.

62 . Ibid., 820.

63 . Ibid., 818. Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 23, 1792.

64 . PWP, 11:92. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, September 9, 1792.

65 . Ibid.

66 . Ibid., 11:104. Letter from Thomas Jefferson, September 9, 1792.

67 . Ibid., 11:182. “Thomas Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington,” October 1, 1792.

68 Ibid., 11:183.

69 . Ibid.

70 . Ibid. 11:183-84.

71 Ibid., 11:184.

72 . Ibid.

73 Ibid., 11:185.

74 Ibid.

75 . Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 408.

76 . PWP,11:396. Letter from Elizabeth Willing Powel, November 17, 1792.

CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX: CITIZEN GENET

1 . PWP, 12:30. Letter to Henry Lee, January 20, 1793.

2 . Ibid., 11:511. “Thomas Jefferson’s Conversations with Washington,” December 13, 1792.

3 . Ibid., 13:472. Letter from William Gordon, August 17, 1793.

4 . Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 424.

5 . PWCF,6:355. Letter to Mathew Carey, June 25, 1788.

6 . PWP, 11:245. Letter to Gouverneur Morris, October 20, 1792.

7 . Decatur, Private Affairs of George Washington, 302.

8 . PWP, 12:106. “Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Conversation with Washington,” February 7, 1793.

9 . Schiff, Great Improvisation, 406.

10 . Rosenfeld, American Aurora, 30.

11 . PWRT,1:408. Letter to William Gordon, October 15, 1797.

12 . WWF,17:225. Letter to Governor William Livingston, December 7, 1779.

13 . PWP, 13:261. Letter to Henry Lee, July 21, 1793.

14 . WWR,834-35. Letter to Frances Bassett Washington, February 24, 1793.

15 . PWP,12:363. Letter to David Humphreys, March 23, 1793.

16 . Unger, Unexpected George Washington, 217.

17 . PWP, 12:242. “Cabinet Opinion on the Administration of the Presidential Oath,” March 1, 1793.

18 Ibid., 12:265.

19 . Ibid., 10:115-16. Letter from Lafayette, March 15, 1792.

20 . Unger, Lafayette, 281.