Does this qualify as a quotation from the mouth of GW?

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Back in April I queried the list about an elusive quotation from GW on
his intention to move to the North if the Union broke apart.  I am happy
to report that the source has been found by Mary Thompson at Mount
Vernon, who writes:

On page 568 of Volume 28 of The Papers of Thomas Jeffersona, John
Catanzariti, editor (Princeton, New Jersey, and Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2000) is "Notes of a Conversation with Edmund
Randolph," which is dated by the editors to "[after 1795]". The last
note reads: "the P. speaking with R. on the hypothesis of a separation
of the Union into Northern and Southern said he had made up his mind to
remove and be of the Northern." The footnote (on page 569) for this note
reads: "This paragraph written on verso in different ink."

Thanks to everyone who helped with this.

Henry Wiencek

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