The Life of John Marshall, Volume 3: Conflict and construction, 1800-1815. Beveridge Albert Jeremiah
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Hunt, 10.
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Gallatin to his wife, Jan. 15, 1801, Adams:
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Plumer to Thompson, Jan. 1, 1803, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.
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Gallatin to his wife, Jan. 15, 1801, Adams:
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Hunt, 10.
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Gallatin to his wife,
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Bryan, i, 357-58.
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A few of these are still standing and occupied.
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Gallatin to his wife,
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Gallatin to his wife, Aug. 17, 1802, Adams:
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Wolcott to his wife, July 4, 1800, Gibbs, ii, 377.
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Otis to his wife, Feb. 28, 1815, Morison:
"The Bladensburg
"We … arriv'd safe at our first stage, Ross's, having gone at a rate rather exceeding two miles & an half per hour… In case of a
Of course conditions were much worse in all parts of the country, except the longest and most thickly settled sections.
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Parton:
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Plumer to his wife, Jan. 25, 1807, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.
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Bayard wrote to Rodney: "four months [in Washington] almost killed me." (Bayard to Rodney, Feb. 24, 1804, N. Y. Library Bulletin, iv, 230.)
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Margaret Smith to Susan Smith, Dec. 26, 1802, Hunt, 33; also Mrs. Smith to her husband, July 8, 1803,
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King to Gore, Aug. 20, 1803,
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Gallatin to his wife, Jan. 15, 1801, Adams:
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Wharton:
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See
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Plumer to Lowndes, Dec. 30, 1805, Plumer:
"The wilderness, alias the federal city." (Plumer to Tracy, May 2, 1805, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)
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Story to Fay, Feb. 16, 1808,
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This was a little Presbyterian church building, which was abandoned after 1800. (Bryan, i, 232; and see Hunt, 13-14.)
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A year or two later, religious services were held every Sunday afternoon in the hall of the House of Representatives, which always was crowded on these occasions. The throng did not come to worship, it appears; seemingly, the legislative hall was considered to be a convenient meeting-place for gossip, flirtation, and social gayety. The plan was soon abandoned and the hall left entirely to profane usages. (Bryan, i, 606-07.)
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Gallatin to his wife, Jan. 15, 1801, Adams:
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Wharton:
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Hunt, 12.
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See Merry to Hammond, Dec. 7, 1803, as quoted in Adams:
Public men seldom brought their wives to Washington because of the absence of decent accommodations. (Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Dec. 6, 1805, Hunt, 48.)
"I do not perceive how the members of Congress can possibly secure lodgings, unless they will consent to live like scholars in a college or monks in a monastery, crowded ten or twenty in a house; and utterly excluded from society." (Wolcott to his wife, July 4, 1800, Gibbs, ii, 377.)
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Plumer to Thompson, March 19,1804, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong. And see
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Hildreth:
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Plumer to Lowndes, Dec. 30, 1805, Plumer, 337.
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Channing:
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Bryan, i, 438.
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Wolcott to his wife, July 4, 1800, Gibbs, ii, 377.
"The workmen are the refuse of that class and, nevertheless very high in their demands." (La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt:
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"To Thomas Hume, Esq., M.D.," Moore:
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See Jefferson to Short, Sept. 6, 1790,
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See Singleton:
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Plumer to his wife, Dec. 25, 1802, Plumer, 246.
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"Mr. Granger [Jefferson's Postmaster-General] … after a few bottles of champagne were emptied, on the observation of Mr. Madison that it was the most delightful wine when drank in moderation, but that more than a few glasses always produced a headache the next day, remarked with point that this was the very time to try the experiment, as the next day being Sunday would allow time for a recovery from its effects. The point was not lost upon the host and bottle after bottle came in." (S. H. Smith to his wife, April 26, 1803. Hunt, 36.)
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At that time