George Washington began what he thought would be his retirement in 1784. Following a visit from the Marquis de Lafayette that year, Washington put aside retirement to return to his lifelong dream of establishing a trade route to the west that used the Potomac River, that flowed past Mount Vernon. He got Maryland and Virginia to pass laws allowing for this, but found the implementation of such a route much more difficult than he anticipated.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West, by Robert Kapsch (borrow on archive.org). 

Online Recommendation of the Week: A New Chapter in the Early Life of Washington, In Connection with the Narrative History of the Potomac Company, by John Pickell.

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The Continental Congress, eager to begin settling western lands, forces native tribes to sign the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785) and Fort Finney (1786) to relinquish claims to large portions of land in what is today the state of Ohio. Congress passes the Land Ordinance of 1785 to define exactly how blocks of this land would be transferred to private parties, either through veterans' grants, or through sales.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Arthur Lee, A Virtuous Revolutionary, by Louis Potts (borrow on archive.org).

Online Recommendation of the Week: The Land Ordinance of 1785: A Bicentennial Review: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27790853

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Frustrated by the ill treatment of the eastern establishment. Three counties in western North Carolina vote for independence and form a new state named after Benjamin Franklin. They establish a new government, naming John Sevier as governor. North Carolina is not happy.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession, by Kevin Barksdale (borrow on archive.org).

Online Recommendation of the Week: History of the Lost State of Franklin, by Samuel Cole Williams: https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-EFE-229

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Congress focuses on western lands to resolve its money problems.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham.

Online Recommendation of the Week: Ohio in the time of the Confederation: https://archive.org/details/ohiointimeofconf03hulb

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At the end of the Revolutionary war, people began to deal with the ideals of freedom and equality while maintaining slavery. Northern states mostly put slavery on a slow path to eventual abolition. Sothern States do not. In Massachusetts, several slaves sue under the argument that the Constitutions claims that all men are born free and equal means that they are born free and equal.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson

Online Recommendation of the Week: Notes on the history of slavery in Massachusetts, by GH Moore: https://archive.org/details/cu31924027056039

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The American Revolution Podcast round table met on Zoom to discuss Lord Dunmore's War on the eve of the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Author Glenn Williams provided us with a great summary of those events.

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In 1783, General Henry Knox proposes the establishment of a private organization for Continental officers called The Society of the Cincinnati. National leaders see the new group as a threat trying to undermine freedom and self-government.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America, by Markus Hünemörder .

Online Recommendation of the Week:  Society of the Cincinnati: https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org

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In November, 1783, Washington takes leave of his officers and the army after the British Depart New York. Washington makes his way to Annapolis to resign. Congress misses the arrival of the Dutch Ambassador and scrambles to get the final peace treaty ratified while accepting Washington's resignation. Finally a civilian, Washington arrives home at Mount Vernon on Christmas Eve, 1783.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783, by Stanley Weintraub.

Online Recommendation of the Week:  Washington’s Resignation Speech December 23, 1783 https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdstatehouse/pdf/webversion.pdf

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Although parties had established a preliminary peace treaty in 1782, the process of moving the British army and loyalist civilians out of New York took well over a year. General Guy Carleton remained concerned about leaving behind any loyalists who might suffer the wrath of their neighbors for loyalty to the crown.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Guy Carleton: A Biography, by Paul R. Reynolds

Online Recommendation of the Week:  A Tory-Eye View of the Evacuation of New York, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23174025

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The Powder Alarm resulted from a British raid in September, 1774 to capture powder from a local storage site. It made clear that the patriots needed better intelligence and a better rapid response system to challenge the British soldiers.

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