Note 856 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

Also N. Y. Hist. Coll., 1879. Cf. Geo. W. Schuyler's Colonial New York, ii. 267; Amer. Hist. Record, ii. 145. The jealousy, or rather dislike, of Schuyler on the part of New England men was the natural result of the contact of commander and subordinates so strongly opposed as an aristocratic Knickerbocker and the self-willed democrats of the Eastern States. Cf., on this antagonism, John Adams's Works, iii. 87; Graydon's Memoirs, passim; Gordon, ii. 331; Irving's Washington, iii. 128, etc. A survival of the feelings had doubtless colored some of the later estimates of Schuyler's character, and the opposing views can be seen in Lossing's Schuyler (ii. 325, etc.) and in Bancroft's United States. Cf. also Geo. L. Schuyler's Correspondence and Remarks upon Bancroft's History of the Northern Campaign of 1777 and the character of General Schuyler. The dissatisfaction with Schuyler was not, however, confined to New England. Reference seems to be made to him as an "infamous villain" in the letters of Samuel Kennedy, a surgeon of Pennsylvania troops (Penna. Mag. of Hist., viii. 114, where he is presumably spoken of as "G. S ... r").