Synopses & Reviews
Volume 2 documents Washington's emergence as the extraordinarilyactive leader of the move to open the upper reaches of the Potomac to navigation andto use it to tie the fast-settling West to the seaboard states. Besides documentsrelating to Washington's presidency of the Potomac River Company and to the routinemanagement of his private affairs, there are letters dealing with such things as thefamous Spanish jacks, the plight of both Patrick Henry and Nathanael Greene, histories by Jeremy Belknap and William Gordon, Lafayette's visit, William Byrd'sletters, and David Humphreys's poetry.