The papers of George Washington, Confederation series

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The papers of George Washington, Confederation series

W.W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig, editors ; Philander D. Chase and Beverly H. Runge, associate editors ; Beverly S. Kirsch and Debra B. Kessler, assistant editors

University Press of Virginia, 1992-1997

  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3
  • v. 4
  • v. 5
  • v. 6

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Confederation series

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1. January-July 1784 -- 2. July 1784-May 1785 -- 3. May 1785-March 1786 -- 4. April 1786-January 1787 -- 5. February- December 1787 -- 6. January-September 1788

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780813913483

Description

This is part of a series which begins on 1 January 1784 with the hero of the American Revolution back at Mount Vernon under his own ""fig tree and vine"", and ends in September 1788 on the eve of his return to public life as president under the new Constitution. The Confederation Series is composed almost entirely of personal letters and includes very few official documents. Documents printed in Volume 1 reflect Washington's main concerns during the first months of peace. Many letters related directly to his resumption of the management not only of his house and farms at Mount Vernon, as well as of his tenanted land in Frederick and Berkeley counties and in Pennsylvania, but also of his vast holdings on the banks of the Great Kanawha and Ohio. Other letters deal with such things as the settlement of his military accounts, his activities as both president and determined reformer of the Society of the Cincinnati, and his preliminary notions about making the Potomac the connecting link between the East and the transmontane West.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780813913490

Description

This is part of a series which begins on 1 January 1784 with the hero of the American Revolution back at Mount Vernon under his own ""fig tree and vine"", and ends in September 1788 on the eve of his return to public life as president under the new Constitution. The Confederation Series is composed almost entirely of personal letters and includes very few official documents. Volume 2 documents Washington's emergence as the extraordinarily active leader of the move to open the upper reaches of the Potomac to navigation and to use it to tie the fast-settling West to the seaboard states. Besides documents relating to Washington's presidency of the Potomac River Company and to the routine managment of his private affairs, there are letters dealing with such things as the famous Spanish jacks, the plight of both Patrick Henry and Nathanael Greene, histories by Jeremy Belknap and William Gordon, Lafayette's visit, William Byrd's letters, and David Humphrey's poetry.
Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780813915067

Description

The third of six volumes of Washington's papers in the Confederation period, this book looks at the time when Washington ventured from his house and farms at Mount Vernon only for occasional trips into Alexandria and periodic forays up to the Potomac to meet officers of the Potomac River Company.
Volume

v. 4 ISBN 9780813915609

Description

This is the fourth of six volumes of the papers of George Washington in the Confederation period. The series begins on 1st January 1784 and ends in September 1788, the eve of Washington's return to public life as President. This set of papers deals largely with private affairs.
Volume

v. 5 ISBN 9780813916729

Description

Covering the first half of 1790, this volume focuses upon Washington's continued concentration on the problems facing the new government. The president's near-fatal illness in May 1790 is described along with a diverse range of matters covered by his incoming correspondence.
Volume

v. 6 ISBN 9780813916842

Description

Washington's papers in volume six of the series reveal him giving meticulous attention to his personal affairs at Mount Vernon and turning his mind to the new role he should, and must, play in establishing the new government.

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