31 Furstenberg,In the Name of the Father, 32.

32 Wills, Cincinnatus, 32.

33 Unger, Unexpected George Washington, 266.

34 Weintraub, George Washington’s Christmas Farewell, 66.

35 Schutz and Adair, Spur of Fame, 229.

36 Neely, “Mason Locke Weems’s Life.”

37 Furstenberg, “Spinning the Revolution,” New York Times, July 4, 2006.

38 Furstenberg,In the Name of the Father, 135.

39 Ibid., 121.

40 Smith, John Marshall, 331.

41 Ibid.

42 Brady, Martha Washington, 226.

43 Decatur, Private Affairs of George Washington, 306.

44 MTV. “Early Descriptions 1800-1841.” Letter from Sally Foster Otis to Mrs. Charles W. Apthorp, January 13, 1801.

45 MTV. “Early Descriptions 1800-1841.” Diary of Manasseh Cutler, January 2, 1802.

46 PWRT,4:494.

47 MTV. “Early Descriptions 1800-1841.” Abigail Adams letter, December 21, 1800.

48 Bryan, First Lady of Liberty, 378.

49 PWRT, 4:494.

50 MTV. “Early Descriptions 1800-1841.” Undated letter by Sir Augustus John Foster.

51 Malone, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty, 3:443.

52 Smith,Correspondence and Miscellanies of the Hon. John Cotton Smith, 224.

53 Smith, John Marshall, 19.

54 MTV. “Early Descriptions 1800-1841.” Diary of Manasseh Cutler, January 2, 1802.

55 Brady, Martha Washington, 229.

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