George Washington at Ticonderoga, July 1783
A Fort Ticonderoga Bibliography, © Fort Ticonderoga
Current: April 6, 2000
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Primary Accounts 
Account of Mrs. Markham, in Philip Battell, "Minute Book of
Conversations," Swift Collection, Sheldon Museum Research Center. [Copy in
FTA research files.] "Washington was up after the war at her brother’s:
pitched his tent near them and sat with them in the evening. . . . He came by
way of Lake George and returned by the same route."
Elizabeth Cometti, trans. and ed., Seeing America and Its
Great Men: The Journal and Letters of Count Francesco dal Verme, 1783-1784,
Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, pp. 13-14. [Copy in FTA research
files.] Accompanied George Washington on his visit to Ticonderoga, 23 July 1783.
Notes French Lines, rattlesnake, sheep brought along for food killed by a bear.
George Washington, "Expenses (in which those of Governor
Clinton and other Gentlemen who accompanied me are included) . . . ," New
York History, vol. XIII no. 2 (April 1932), pp. 180-181. [FTA #4829]. Ms was
in the collection of Karl A. Ohman, Van Schaick Mansion, Cohoes, NY, in 1932.
Washington to President of Congress, 16 July 1783, in The
Writings of George Washington, John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., Washington, D.C.,
1931-1944, vol. XXVII, p. 84.
Washington to Philip Schuyler, from Headquarters, Newburgh,
15 July 1783. Photocopy of ms letter in FTA research files. Location of original
unknown.
Washington to Philip Schuyler, 16 July 1783, in The
Writings of George Washington, John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., Washington, D.C.,
1931-1944, vol. XXVII, pp. 66-67.
Secondary Accounts
William S. Baker, Itinerary of General Washington,
Philadelphia, 1892, pp. 293-302.
Allan Boudreau and Alexander Bleimann, George Washington in
New York, David Deutsch, ed., New York, American Lodge of Research, Free &
Accepted Masons, 1967, pp. 66-67. [FTA]
John Kaminski, George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New
Republic, Madison, Wisconsin, Madison House, 1993. [FTA.] Examines the joint
land investments of Clinton and Washington in the Mohawk Valley in 1783.
John H.G. Pell, "General George Washington’s Visit to
Fort Ticonderoga in July 1783," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga
Museum, vol. XIV no. 4 (Fall 1983), pp. 260-262.
For bi-centennial observations on 30-31 July 1983 of
Washington’s visit to the Fort, see Jane M. Lape, "Museum Notes,"
The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XIV no. 5 (Summer 1984), pp.
329-332. James Thomas Flexner and Drew Middleton were the guests of honor and
speakers at the dedication of a commemorative plaque located in the Place d’Armes.
Stephen H.P. Pell, "George Washington," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. II no. 6 (July 1932), pp. 208-209.
William J. Showalter, "The Travels of George
Washington," National Geographic Magazine, January 1932, pp. . [FTA
#P-3030].
Related Collections at Fort Ticonderoga
Hubert R. Hudson, "George Washington: The Custis and Lee
Connections," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XIV no. 3
(Summer 1982), pp. 184-185.
Hubert R. Hudson, "The George Washington Collection in
the Fort Ticonderoga Museum," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum,
vol. IX no. 3 (Summer 1953), pp. 202-209. Largely focuses on the George
Lyttleton Upshur Collection.
Stephen H.P. Pell, "Museum Notes," The Bulletin of
the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VI no. 6 (July 1943), p. 179. Concerns the
conversion of the George Lyttleton Upshur (great-grandson of Martha Washington)
loan of Washington relics to a gift by his widow.
Charles Peale Polk, "George Washington at
Princeton," oil on canvas. Purchased by Stephen H.P. Pell in January 1915.
See Fort Ticonderoga Museum Scrapbook, vol. II, p. 31.
The Frances Henley Collection of Washington memorabilia
donated by Margery Withers and R. Keith Kane, 1955. The Bulletin of the Fort
Ticonderoga Museum, vol. IX no. 6 (1956), p. 174.
The Arnold Wood Collection of 400+ engraved portraits of
Washington. The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. IX no. 3 (Summer
1953), pp. 208-209.
