The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers (59 page)

Posey, John, 64–65, 67

Posey, Martha Harrison, 67

Posey, Milly, 64

Posey, Thomas, 63–67, 347

Potter, Sukey, 264

Powel, Eliza, 51–52, 54

Presbyterians, 215–16, 360–61, 362

Price, Richard, 246

Priestley, Joseph, 238

Princeton College, 51, 99, 214, 215, 358–61, 362, 405

Prospect Before Us, The
(Callender), 190–91

Quakers, 74, 79, 102, 175, 229, 367, 369, 371, 382, 389

“Quasi-War,” 52, 183–89, 193, 244–45

Quincy, Esther, 128–29

Quincy, Hannah, 127–29, 130, 204–5

Quincy, Josiah, 204

Ralph, James, 75

Ramsay, Allen, 146

Randall, Henry S., 333

Randolph, Anne Cary, 318, 319

Randolph, Cornelia, 320, 401

Randolph, Edmund, 172, 275, 280, 287, 290, 292, 364

Randolph, Ellen, 319–20, 324, 327

Randolph, George Wythe, 324

Randolph, John (Virginia congressman), 381, 383

Randolph, John (attorney general of colonial Williamsburg), 62, 278

Randolph, Martha Jefferson “Patsy,” 271, 276, 290–91, 293–94, 296, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307–8, 313, 317–18, 322, 325–26, 327, 336, 350, 352, 356, 404, 412–13

Randolph, Mary, 319–20

Randolph, Mary Isham, 260

Randolph, Nancy, 261

Randolph, Sarah Nicholas, 330, 346

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 322, 323, 324, 325, 327, 334–35, 338, 345, 347, 349, 351, 410

Randolph, Thomas Mann, 307–8, 315, 317–18, 320, 322, 323, 325, 356

Randolph, Virginia, 324

Randolph, William, 260, 270, 307

Ray, Catherine “Katy,” 82–83, 88, 120

Reed, Joseph, 36–37

Republican Party, 49, 177, 179, 182–83, 185, 190–92, 193, 232–45, 252–53, 308, 309, 310, 331, 333, 366, 370, 371–72, 373, 377, 385, 386–87, 389

Revere, Paul, 284–85

Reynolds, James, 230, 234–35, 236, 239, 241

Reynolds, Maria, xvi, 230–43, 244, 245, 247, 252, 310

Rhode Island, 59, 120, 150

Richardson, Samuel, xiv

Rivington, James, 62

Rochambeau, Comte de, 40

Rochefoucauld d’Anville, Comtesse de la, 293

Rochefoucauld d’Anville, Louis-Alexandre, Duc de la, 293, 296

Rogers, John, 76, 77, 78, 80

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 335–36

Ross, Robert, 390, 393

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 102, 365

Royal Navy, 180–81, 273, 283, 379–80, 385, 388, 389, 390

Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company
, 8

Rush, Benjamin, 199

“Sage of Monticello,” 310–11

St. Asaph, Bishop of, 160

St. Croix, 209–15, 229, 249, 254

St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
, 65, 66

Sally Hemings, A Novel
(Chase-Riboud), 412–13

Saratoga, Battle of, 138

Savage, William, 61

Scholars Commission, 341–42

School for Scandal, The
(Sheridan), 46

Schuyler, Angelica,
see
Church, Angelica Schuyler

Schuyler, Elizabeth “Betsey,”
see
Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler “Betsey”

Schuyler, Margarita,
see
Van Renssalaer, Margarita Schuyler

Schuyler, Philip, 220, 221, 223, 230, 234, 252, 254

Scribner’s
, 4, 66

Sedgwick, Theodore, 186

Seven Years’ War, 6, 11, 12, 17–18, 92, 261, 314

Sewall, Jonathan, 129

Shakespeare, William, 132, 178

Shaw, Elizabeth Smith, 158, 160–61, 171, 172, 202

Shaw, William, 183, 185

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 46

Shippen, Alice Lee, 153

Short, William, 296

Skelton, Bathhurst, 266

Skelton, John, 266, 269–70, 287, 429
n

Skelton, Martha Wayles,
see
Jefferson, Martha Wayles Skelton

Skipwith, Robert, 268

slaves, 7, 21, 32, 61, 68–70, 203–4, 211, 212, 213, 214, 255, 273, 275, 282, 303, 305–6, 310–13, 314, 321, 323, 329, 331, 367, 401, 405, 406, 409–16

Smith, Abigail,
see
Adams, Abigail Smith

Smith, Abigail Adams “Nabby,” 134, 135, 139, 149, 155–60, 163–64, 167–70, 171, 173, 175, 179–80, 183, 188, 197–201

Smith, Caroline, 199

Smith, Elizabeth,
see
Shaw, Elizabeth Smith

Smith, Jim, 393

Smith, Margaret Bayard, 375, 382, 383

Smith, Mary,
see
Cranch, Mary Smith

Smith, Nancy, 200

Smith, Robert, 380

Smith, Samuel Harrison, 375

Smith, William (father), 129, 131

Smith, William (son), 160

Smith, William Stephens, 159–60, 163–64, 167–68, 170, 173–75, 179–80, 183–84, 188, 197–200

Smith, William Steuben, 160, 163, 167, 168

Social History of the American Family, A
(Calhoun), 409

“Songs of Selma, The” (MacPherson), 276–77

Sons of Liberty, 216–17

South Carolina, 151, 211, 218, 283, 327, 401–2

Spain, 148, 149, 150–51, 153–54, 177, 198, 312, 314, 377

Spring, Samuel, 359

Stamp Act (1765), 92–93, 186, 274

Stanton, Lucia C., 340

Stanwix, John, 14

Sterne, Laurence, 266–67, 269, 276

Steuben, Friedrich von, 160, 227

Stevens, Edward, 212

Stevens, Thomas, 212

Stevenson, Margaret, 86, 87, 88, 91–98, 110–11, 120

Stevenson, Polly, 86, 88, 89, 91, 95–96, 98, 110–11, 120

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 331

Strahan, William, 86–87, 98

Stuart, David, 43

Stuart, Gilbert, 49–50, 384, 392, 395

Stuyvesant, Peter, 217

“Summary View of the Rights of British America, A” (Jefferson), 277, 278

Supreme Court, U.S., 191, 331, 383

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 182, 183, 185

Tarleton, Banastre, 284–85

Taylor, Zachary, 407

Thaxter, John, 137

Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History
(Brodie), 411–12

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
(Gordon-Reed), 415, 437
n

Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 339–42, 349

Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society (TJHS), 341–42

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 335, 339–40, 413

Thornton, Anna Maria, 375

Thornton, William, 375

Tilghman, Tench, 220, 222

Todd, Dolley Payne,
see
Madison, Dolley Payne Todd

Todd, Payne, 366, 368, 372, 399, 400–401, 404–5

Trist, Cornelia Randolph, 320, 401

Trist, Eliza, 356, 357

Trist, Nicholas, 324, 401

Trist, Virginia Randolph, 324

Tristram Shandy
(Sterne), 266–67, 276, 288–89

Trollope, Frances, 329

Troup, Robert, 216–17, 231, 238, 244, 246, 247

Truman, Harry S., 352

Trumbull, John, 154, 297, 298

Turgot, Anne-Robert, 109

Turreau, Louis Marie, 376–77, 383

Turreau, Marie-Angelique de, 376–77

Tyler, Royall, 155–56, 159, 197

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Stowe), 331

University of Virginia, 322, 326, 335, 405

Valley Forge, 37, 62

Van Buren, Martin, 405–6

Van Ness, John Peter, 376

Van Ness, Marcia Burns, 375–76

Van Renssalaer, Margarita Schuyler, 220, 221–22

Van Renssalaer, Stephen, 221

Venable, Abraham, 235, 236, 240

Vergennes, Comte de, 102, 151, 152, 153, 154

Virginia, xiv, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 22, 24, 26, 32–33, 38, 40, 97, 125–26, 231, 267, 271, 273–74, 277, 283–89, 292, 297, 305–6, 312, 323, 327, 358, 361, 363, 364–65, 381, 401–2

“Virginia Plan,” 364–65

Volney, Comte de, 348–49, 351

Walker, Betsey Moore, 265, 311, 313

Walker, John, 265, 311, 313

Wallenborn, White McKenzie, 339, 340, 342, 349

War for Independence:

armed conflict in, 40–43, 96, 98, 102, 112, 150, 154, 159, 217–18, 224, 281, 282, 283–86, 356, 363

British defeat in, 41, 42, 43, 112, 154, 224, 286, 356

finances of, xv–xvi, 102–3, 106–7, 152–53, 161, 229–30

French alliance in, 102–3, 139–45, 218, 281, 283

loyalists in, 60–61, 77, 98–100, 112–14, 118, 216–17

monarchy overthrown by, 162, 165–66, 180, 181, 195, 215–16, 267

naval warfare in, 103, 286

peace treaty for, 111, 114–15, 149–52, 158–61, 195, 292

War of 1812, 385–98

Warren, James, 37, 148, 168, 194

Warren, John Collins, 199

Warren, Mercy Otis, 37, 47, 134, 147, 168, 194–97, 199

Washington, Anne Fairfax, 7, 9–10

Washington, Augustine, 7–8, 260

Washington, Bushrod, 68, 70

Washington, Charles, 44

Washington, Corbin, 70

Washington, D.C., 46, 170, 192–93, 203–4, 230, 254–55, 312–15, 334, 336, 347, 355, 372–99, 405–7

Washington, George, 3–70

account books of, 65, 69

assassination and kidnapping plot against, 60–61

background of, 7–10, 63–67

biographies of, 4–5, 66–67

birth of, 126, 181–82, 358, 370

British slander against, 58–63

cabinet of, 52, 168, 177–78, 239, 307, 309

as childless, 25

as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, 34–37, 41–43, 57, 63, 64, 107, 108, 112, 125–26, 132–33, 138, 154, 159, 160, 217–18, 220, 222–23, 283, 286, 364

at Constitutional Convention (1787), xvi, 118–19

in Continental Congress, 33, 34, 355

correspondence of, xvi, 3–5, 11, 12–13, 16–18, 24–25, 28, 30–31, 34–35, 38, 39, 43, 50–52, 57, 58–63, 64, 65, 67, 217–18

dancing as pastime of, 15, 22–23

death of, 55–57, 70, 189, 245

education as viewed by, 26–27, 31, 44, 65, 67

fame of, xvi, 29, 36–38, 52–53, 56, 70, 114, 179

family background of, 7–8, 43–44

farewell address of, 48

finances of, 9–10, 19–20, 65, 69, 261

forged letters ascribed to, 58–63

as founding father, xvi, 3–5, 181–82, 352, 370

as grandfather, 43–44, 47–48, 51

Hamilton’s relationship with, 48, 164, 183–84, 189, 217–18, 220, 222–23, 224, 231, 233, 235–36, 238–39, 241–42, 244, 245, 253

health of, 9, 11, 12–13, 15, 25, 45, 46–47, 48, 54–56

at House of Burgesses, 22, 24, 27, 33

James Madison’s relationship with, 48, 364–65, 366, 370–71

land owned by, 19–20, 23–24, 30, 54, 63, 68

lifestyle of, 22–24, 169

love letter of (1758), 3–5, 16–18

love life of, xiii, 3–5, 10–18, 58–63, 66–70, 310

marriage of, xvi, 18, 19–20, 22–25, 30, 34–37, 41–43, 55–57, 58, 61, 245, 261

military career of, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17–18, 22, 52, 54, 63, 64, 179, 183–84, 244, 278

monument to, 255, 336, 406

moral values of, 13–14, 50–51, 58–63, 66–70, 132

Mount Vernon estate of, 7, 9–10, 11, 12–13, 17, 27–30, 32, 34, 39, 40–44, 47–48, 51–56, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69–70, 174, 179, 261

neutrality policy of, 48–49, 62, 172, 240, 309–10, 366

personality of, xiv, 13–14, 16, 17–18, 27, 42–43, 47–50, 62–63, 67, 222–23, 238–39

in Philadelphia, 47–51, 59, 231, 233

physical appearance of, 16, 18, 46, 49–50, 54, 65–66, 67

political career of, xvi, 22, 24, 27, 33, 44–51, 61

popular support for, 45, 46–47, 49

portraits of, 38, 49–50, 65–66, 384, 392, 395

as president, 19, 44–51, 62, 119, 164, 165, 166, 168, 169–70, 173, 181, 224, 235–36, 238–39, 241–42, 255, 304, 307, 308, 309–10, 371, 374, 386

press coverage of, 3–5, 16, 46, 49, 58, 63–64, 310, 347

religious views of, 238

reputation of, xvi, 3–5, 13–14, 15, 29, 36–38, 44–45, 52–53, 56, 58–63, 70, 114, 179, 181–82, 222–23, 278, 295, 309–10, 365, 370–71

retirement of, 51–56

as revolutionary leader, 32–43, 58–60, 63, 64, 107, 108, 114

second term of, 19, 48–51, 62–63

smallpox contracted by, 9, 25

social life of, 22–24, 31, 39, 45, 69, 107, 169–70, 374, 386

social position of, 8, 9, 15, 19–20

spectacles of, 43

staff of, 63, 64, 159, 190

as stepfather, 15–16, 24, 25, 26–32, 39, 41–42

third term rejected by, 52–53

Thomas Posey’s relationship to, 63–67, 347

at Valley Forge, 37, 62

verse written by, 8–9, 10

West Ford’s relationship to, 68–70, 420
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–21
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in Williamsburg, Va., 14–15, 22, 24–25, 27, 31, 41

at Yorktown siege, 41, 42, 43, 286

Washington, George Steptoe, 367, 368

Washington, Hannah, 29, 68, 69–70

Washington, Harriot, 44

Washington, John Augustine “Jack,” 12, 13, 43, 44, 66, 68–69, 70

Washington, Lawrence, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19

Washington, Lucy Payne, 367, 373–74, 384, 391–92

Washington, Lund, 40

Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis:

Abigail Adams’s views on, 37, 45, 169–70

apparel of, 20, 23–24

background of, 21–22

biographies of, 16–17, 20

children lost by, xv, 25, 29–30, 31, 41–42

correspondence of, xvi, 24–25, 29, 34–35, 41, 51–54, 57, 61–62

death of, 57, 68