Part 15 (1/2)

Washi+ngton had other cogent reasons for al style, he decided to travel with only Tobias Lear, David Humphreys, and Willia to Massachusetts, Washi+ngton thought it proper to invite along Vice President Ada his invitation The trip would also enable Washi+ngton, after his recent prolonged illness, to indulge in fresh air, exercise, and relaxation To rebuild his shattered health, he now rode for two hours eachand strolled for an hour in the late afternoon, but he still led a confined existence in New York and erly anticipated the freedom of the open road

When he set out in rind to a halt Congress had instructed Alexander Hamilton to draw up a report on public debt and to devise an all-enco task-Congress wanted it in hand when it reconvened in early January-but Haloried in his ability to produce outstanding results on short notice Prior to leaving New York, Washi+ngton also signed a procla that ”Als bestowed on the Aland, creation of the Constitution, establishovernment, and the ”tranquillity, union, and plenty” that the country now enjoyed2 To execute a sweeping tour of the northern states, Washi+ngton knew, he would encounter many problems that had bothered hi or small talk and could not divert audiences with a casual joke or anecdote ”In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and eton ”had neither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words”3 He also had to worry about aout unexpectedly Opening his s connecting the upper and lower dentures, which ton risked such embarrassment in order tonature Perhaps afraid he would be held captive to the hospitality of various fae some privacy, he laid down a rule that he would not stay in private residences during the trip He also had to worry about aout unexpectedly Opening his s connecting the upper and lower dentures, which ton risked such embarrassment in order tonature Perhaps afraid he would be held captive to the hospitality of various fae some privacy, he laid down a rule that he would not stay in private residences during the trip

By now Washi+ngton well understood the h the countryside in an open carriage, attended by servants in livery and jockey caps Behind hi, and one of his slaves, either Paris or Giles, supervised his white charger in the rear As they entered a town, Washi+ngton would dise, nificent soleht avoid fanfare and enter cities unobtrusively, and at his first stop in New Haven, Connecticut, he deliberately bypassed the welco the lower road,” he admitted in his diary, ”we missed a committee of the assembly who had been appointed to wait upon and escort me into town”4 Typically, as word leaked out about his ireet him before he could outwit them Doomed to his own celebrity, he tried to subrace Typically, as word leaked out about his ireet him before he could outwit them Doomed to his own celebrity, he tried to subrace

Aside fro places for future canals, roads, and other internal iton kept a weather eye out for innovations in riculture The country already stood in the early throes of the Industrial Revolution, and unlike Jefferson, Washi+ngton did not recoil froun to dot the landscape He stopped by the Hartford Woolen Manufactory and examined its textile business While he did not find their broadcloths to be first-rate, he ordered a suit for hi in a bit of areater inco into Massachusetts, he wrote, ”There is a great equality in the people of this state Few or no opulent sThe far more than 100 acres”5 His co appreciation of the northern states and his shedding of a purely Virginia identity His co appreciation of the northern states and his shedding of a purely Virginia identity

Boston loomed as the first major city on the itinerary; plans for a full-dress ton's anxiety A conitaries traveled to meet him in Spencer, west of Worcester, and, just as he feared, they presented their celebratory plans Not for the last ti this cereh I had made every effort to do it, I named the hour of ten to pass the e and the hour of 12 for my entrance into Boston”6 Boston had never properly thanked Washi+ngton for its liberation from the British, and it now intended to seize the opportunity Knowing this would be a tribute to his wartiton departed from his usual practice and decked hiold epaulettes If he had been resistant at first to the adulation of the Boston populace, he entered wholly into the spirit of the occasion Theof his arrival was cold and overcast, and his cavalcade was halted at Cae by a dispute as to whether state or local authorities would receive hi delay ”Is there no other avenue into the town?” he demanded7 The stern reproof had an ireeted by municipal officials The stern reproof had an ireeted by municipal officials

As he entered Boston, church bells chimed, and a French fleet in the harbor erupted with bursts of artillery fire In a syhts, recalling the triue People cra him as he trotted by on his white steed ”He did not bow to the spectators as he passed,” said one observer, ”but sat on his horse with a calnified air”8 At the State House he passed beneath an enormous arch emblazoned with the words ”To the man who unites all hearts,” surmounted by a laurel wreath with the inscription ”Boston relieved March 17th 1776” At the State House he passed beneath an enormous arch emblazoned with the words ”To the man who unites all hearts,” surmounted by a laurel wreath with the inscription ”Boston relieved March 17th 1776”9 When Washi+ngton appeared on a balcony of the building and set eyes on the vast e Washi+ngton was always ed fro an ode to hi way to tears One startled eyewitness described how ”every itated, and he was frequently observed to passhis handkerchief across his eyes” When Washi+ngton appeared on a balcony of the building and set eyes on the vast e Washi+ngton was always ed fro an ode to hi way to tears One startled eyewitness described how ”every itated, and he was frequently observed to passhis handkerchief across his eyes”10 Washi+ngton's visit to Boston embroiled him in a delicate diplomatic impasse with Governor John Hancock, who invited him to stay in his richly decorated Beacon Hill ho peacock, wearing fancy clothes and riding about in a radiant coach In replying to this invitation, Washi+ngton explained his decision to stay in prearranged lodgings, although he accepted an invitation to dine informally with Hancock Always scrupulously attentive to forton assumed that Hancock would obey protocol and call on hiout, Hancock failed to do so To Hancock's eton expressed his displeasure He knew that Hancock was trying to establish that he outranked the president in Massachusetts Behind the dispute over etiquette lay an unspoken struggle between state and federal power ”I informed them in explicit terms that I should not see the Gov[erno] r unless it was at ton wrote in his diary11 Perhaps he reton had been appointed coot the randly about hiton that ”the Governor will do himself the honor to pay his respects in half an hour This would have been done ree permitted” Perhaps he reton had been appointed coot the randly about hiton that ”the Governor will do himself the honor to pay his respects in half an hour This would have been done ree permitted”12 To flaunt his es and had his servants carry hi To flaunt his es and had his servants carry hi

By this point Washi+ngton had come doith a cold and an eye inflammation Even before he left New York, he had received reports of an ”epideland states13 On the day he entered Boston, so hs and chest colds that the illness was dubbed ”the President's Cough” or ”Washi+ngton's influenza” On the day he entered Boston, so hs and chest colds that the illness was dubbed ”the President's Cough” or ”Washi+ngton's influenza”14 Now it seeton himself had succue library and shi+p of the French fleet, receiving s Bemused, he noted, ”The officers took off their shoes and the crew all appeared with their legs bared” Now it seeton himself had succue library and shi+p of the French fleet, receiving s Bemused, he noted, ”The officers took off their shoes and the crew all appeared with their legs bared”15 Still the heartthrob of Areed to a request froant dinner to sit for a portrait that would grace Faneuil Hall The sn countenance nize in his portrait in future” Still the heartthrob of Areed to a request froant dinner to sit for a portrait that would grace Faneuil Hall The sn countenance nize in his portrait in future”16 Fro in many Boston households Fro in ton followed his ecu in churches of various denoational In Boston he attended a concert in King's Chapel (Stone Chapel), where a young Danish artist naer, seated in a pew behind the pulpit, drew a rapid, unauthorized sketch of hiton granted Gullager a two-and-a-half-hour sitting that produced a reton that was perhaps influenced by the painter's first gliton seems to turn and suddenly catch the artist's eye His face is broad and open, his torso

On October 28, as he toured the Boston Sailcloth Manufactory, Washi+ngton's attention was distracted from the wonders of American manufactures by the wonders of Aton's frisson of delight, saying that he ” the overseer he believed he collected the prettiest girls in Boston”17 When feted that evening, Washi+ngton was again encircled by adoring women and recorded happily in his diary that ”there were upwards of 100 ladies Their appearance was elegant and , Washi+ngton was again encircled by adoring women and recorded happily in his diary that ”there were upwards of 100 ladies Their appearance was elegant and an a habit of counting the fashi+onable women as he basked in their attention ”He is much more open and free in his behaviorin the company of ladiesthan when solely withthe fashi+onable women as he basked in their attention ”He is much more open and free in his behaviorin the company of ladiesthan when solely with iven his wandering eye, for others noted the way pretty woathered around hiton sat in state on a crimson velvet settee, ”the ladies were very handsomely dressed and every one strove here, as everywhere else, who should pay theeye, for others noted the way pretty woathered around hiton sat in state on a crimson velvet settee, ”the ladies were very handsomely dressed and every one strove here, as everywhere else, who should pay thehealth that this once-celebrated dancer see to Elizabeth Schuyler Haton ”would always choose a partner and walk through the figures correctly, but he never danced His favorite was the ravity” It sayshealth that this once-celebrated dancer see to Elizabeth Schuyler Haton ”would always choose a partner and walk through the figures correctly, but he never danced His favorite was the ravity”21 After leaving Boston, Washi+ngton proceeded north along the coast, accola port of Marblehead, no fashi+onable women swooned over his presence ”The houses are old,” Washi+ngton wrote, ”the streets dirty, and the corow heartily tired of all the festive barges, honor guards, thirteen-gun salutes, and commemorative arches thrown in his path In Saleton was by all the poh] Court Street in Sale anyone else so He looked oppressed by the attention that was paid hiht it seeot to the Court House and had patiently listened to the ditty they sung at him and heard the shouts of the multitudes, he bowed very low and, as if he could bear no more, turned hastily around and went into the house” Washi+ngton seeuards, thirteen-gun salutes, and commemorative arches thrown in his path In Saleton was by all the poh] Court Street in Sale anyone else so He looked oppressed by the attention that was paid hiht it seeot to the Court House and had patiently listened to the ditty they sung at him and heard the shouts of the multitudes, he bowed very low and, as if he could bear no more, turned hastily around and went into the house”23 Desperate for soton went deep-sea fishi+ng with soht not a single fish, and when one local fisherman hooked a cod, he handed the rod to the disappointed president so he could reel it in Doubtless feeling a little foolish, Washi+ngton gave thea sumptuous dinner in Portsmouth, where he resumed his head count of the ladies and showed himself a connoisseur of female coiffure At this assembly, he wrote, ”there were about 75 well dressed andwhom (as was also the case at the Salereater proportion with much blacker hair than are usually seen in the southern states”24 As he circled back to New York, Washi+ngton stopped at Lexington and ”viewed the spot on which the first blood was spilt in the dispute with Great Britain on the 19th of April 1775” 25 After treading this hallowed ground, Washi+ngton proceeded south along crooked back roads to Waltham Incredible as it seems, the presidential party had to ask directions of bystanders, who often gave Washi+ngtoninfornorant” advice26 In his diary, he sounded the universal la about roo the party to ht, or the atrocious entertain for Washi+ngton, especially after his recent malady In the space of a h ales The journey had been an undisputed triuiving citizens a sense of belonging to a single nation For all its rigors, the journey had also revived Washi+ngton's health John Trurant with the odor of incense” In his diary, he sounded the universal la about roo the party to ht, or the atrocious entertain for Washi+ngton, especially after his recent malady In the space of a h ales The journey had been an undisputed triuiving citizens a sense of belonging to a single nation For all its rigors, the journey had also revived Washi+ngton's health John Trurant with the odor of incense”27 With what must have been indescribable relief, he arrived back at his Cherry Street mansion at three PM on Noveton and the rest of the family all well” With what must have been indescribable relief, he arrived back at his Cherry Street mansion at three PM on Noveton and the rest of the fa reappeared on a Friday, he had toThere would be no rest for the weary: having reappeared on a Friday, he had to

ANOTHER EFFECTIVE WAY that Washi+ngton transht national unity was by sitting for portrait artists, an activity for which he set aside a huge amount of time In early October he devoted two hours to an Irish artist, John Rae, who daubed a e depicted a notably dour Washi+ngton dressed in a unifore of the Society of the Cincinnati In this unflattering portrait, Washi+ngton's nose looks too long and too hooked, his chin too sharp, and his expression ue before the northern trip reinvigorated hiton posed for the Marquise de Brehan, as variously described as either the sister or the sister-in-law of the Count de Moustier, the French minister, hom she lived in a scandalous liaison A friend of Jefferson, theto an American Arcadia and been sorely disappointed The count, a bright but tactless eccentric, dressed in the red-heeled shoes of French nobility and wore earrings Both the count and the marquise were frowned upon by most New Yorkers, who had small tolerance for European decadence ”Appearanceshave created and diffused an opinion that an improper connection subsists between [Moustier] and the marchioness,” Jay informed Jefferson ”You can easily conceive the influence of such an opinion on the s of such a people as ours”29 One local resident ridiculed the pair thus: the count was ”distant, haughty, penurious, and entirely governed by the caprices of a little singular, whi with a negro child and caressing a monkey” One local resident ridiculed the pair thus: the count was ”distant, haughty, penurious, and entirely governed by the caprices of a little singular, whi with a negro child and caressing a monkey”30 Perhaps reluctant to offend the French ton flouted convention and allowed himself to be painted by the ton in neoclassical style, his head bound by a laurel wreath In this profile, Washi+ngton has the massive head and thick neck of a Roht nose, and a steady, Godlike gaze as he stares straight ahead Perhaps reluctant to offend the French ton flouted convention and allowed himself to be painted by the ton in neoclassical style, his head bound by a laurel wreath In this profile, Washi+ngton has the massive head and thick neck of a Roht nose, and a steady, Godlike gaze as he stares straight ahead

Another portrait done around this titon's northern trip After giving him a tour of Philosophical Hall, with its display of scientific instrue president Joseph Willard asked Washi+ngton if the university could have a portrait of hie In late Deceranted three sessions to Savage, who portrayed hie of the Society of the Cincinnati pinned to his left lapel That Washi+ngton tore the badge for portraits early in his presidency shows his desire to reassert his solidarity with the group despite his rocky relationshi+p with it Savage's finished portrait shows a cal paunch There is no fire in the eyes or expression in the face-so unlike his s at the extrees he underwent in his later years

During this period Washi+ngton dedicated the most time to portraits by his former aide John Trumbull, perhaps because the artist situated hily of Trumbull's ”masterly execution” and ”capacious mind” and showed toward him none of the petulance or impatience he did toward Gilbert Stuart31 In 1790 alone Washi+ngton granted Tru with hi with Benjamin West in London in the early 1780s, Truent, which could only have endeared hi portrait of Washi+ngton for New York's City Hall, with British shi+ps evacuating New York in 1783 in the background, as well as portraits celebrating the Battles of Trenton and Princeton The Trenton picture showed Washi+ngton in all his earlier loved hand clasping his sword, his chin lifted in an elegant pose For the Princeton portrait, Truton on the eve of battle ”I told the President my object,” he later wrote; ”he entered into it warmly, and, as the work advanced, we talked of the scene, its dangers, its alain and I happily transferred to the canvas the lofty expression of his anih resolve to conquer or to perish” In 1790 alone Washi+ngton granted Tru with hi with Benjamin West in London in the early 1780s, Truent, which could only have endeared hi portrait of Washi+ngton for New York's City Hall, with British shi+ps evacuating New York in 1783 in the background, as well as portraits celebrating the Battles of Trenton and Princeton The Trenton picture showed Washi+ngton in all his earlier loved hand clasping his sword, his chin lifted in an elegant pose For the Princeton portrait, Truton on the eve of battle ”I told the President my object,” he later wrote; ”he entered into it warmly, and, as the work advanced, we talked of the scene, its dangers, its alain and I happily transferred to the canvas the lofty expression of his anih resolve to conquer or to perish”32 Despite his presidential cares, Washi+ngton remained a devoted family ht, vivacious girl that Martha described the ten-year-old in 1789 as ”a wild little creature” with boundless curiosity 33 33 She had a sharp eye for people's foibles and later on loved to poke fun at the ot older, she liked to sprinkle her letters playfully with French and Italian expressions She had a sharp eye for people's foibles and later on loved to poke fun at the ot older, she liked to sprinkle her letters playfully with French and Italian expressions

Even as a girl, Nelly was srandparents The Washi+ngtons never penalized her because she was a girl, and they sent her to a boarding school in New York as a day student They also races She studied painting with William Dunlap and turned out beautiful still lifes, often floral arrangeainst a black backdrop Later on, in Philadelphia, a dancing ht Nelly and Washy the fashi+onable steps required for polite society Because she was so creative, the Washi+ngtons also bought Nelly an English guitar and a harpsichord and gave her lessons with the Austrian cole In theNelly to practice the harpsichord for hours on end until tears sprang to her eyes ”The poor girl would play and cry, and cry and play, for long hours under the iid disciplinarian in all things,” said her brother34 Nelly also told of how, against her grandht in the Mount Vernon woods When she ca up and doith his hands behind him, as was his wont,” said Nelly, while Martha, ”seated in her great armchairopened a severe reproof” Nelly also told of how, against her grandht in the Mount Vernon woods When she ca up and doith his hands behind him, as was his wont,” said Nelly, while Martha, ”seated in her great armchairopened a severe reproof”35 Elsewhere Martha Washi+ngton is portrayed as overly indulgent with her grandchildren After spending a day with the faail Adaood lady, always pleasant and easy, dotingly fond of her grandchildren, to whoton is portrayed as overly indulgent with her grandchildren After spending a day with the faail Adaood lady, always pleasant and easy, dotingly fond of her grandchildren, to whorandton of how she looked up to hirateful affection as a parent to myself and faton of how she looked up to hirateful affection as a parent to ton was her lightness of being, which relieved the gloom that sometimes cloaked the careworn president Part of Nelly's appeal for Washi+ngton was her lightness of being, which relieved the gloom that so to Washy, Nelly observed how Washi+ngton's grave presence inhibited children at play and that even grown-up relatives ”feared to speak or laugh before himnot from his severity” but from ”awe and respectWhen he entered a rooh conversation, all were instantly ton would ”retire, quite provoked and disappointed” When this happened, Washi+ngton would ”retire, quite provoked and disappointed”39 It is a powerful coton fro it hard for hiet the social solace he needed Yet here, too, there are contrary views His nepheell Lerote that when Washi+ngton was ”in a lively reeable to allI could hardly realize that he was the sanity awed all who approached him” It is a powerful coton fro it hard for hiet the social solace he needed Yet here, too, there are contrary views His nepheell Lerote that when Washi+ngton was ”in a lively reeable to allI could hardly realize that he was the sanity awed all who approached him”40 And in his memoirs, Washy reported how his sister charnity which he usually wore did not prevent his keen enjoyhed irl, gave one of her saucy descriptions of any scene in which she had taken part or any one of the merry pranks she then often played” And in his memoirs, Washy reported how his sister charnity which he usually wore did not prevent his keen enjoyhed irl, gave one of her saucy descriptions of any scene in which she had taken part or any one of the ton doted on Nelly, Martha took special pleasure in spoiling Washy When he ay frorew anxious, as she had with Jacky On one occasion when Washy was gone and failed to write, Washi+ngton rerandmama is to suspect that you are sick, or some accident has happened to you, when you oton criticized him in the terms he had once reserved for Washy's father In New York, Washi+ngton hired a private tutor to ith Washy, who ress in Latin but was hopeless in eneral, he was an indifferent and easily distracted pupil Washi+ngton constantly coached Washy and advised hiht noises, then co frustration for Washi+ngton Exasperated with the boy's laxity, Washi+ngton criticized him in the terms he had once reserved for Washy's father In New York, Washi+ngton hired a private tutor to ith Washy, who ress in Latin but was hopeless in eneral, he was an indifferent and easily distracted pupil Washi+ngton constantly coached Washy and advised hiht noises, then co frustration for Washi+ngton