Note 403 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Cf. John Adams's account of this choice, Works, ii. 417; Familiar Letters, 65; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., iv. 68. Also see Sparks' Washington, i. 138, etc.; iii. 1; Barry's Mass., iii. 18, and references; Irving's Washington, i. 411. His commission and instructions are in Sparks' Washington, iii. 479.