It may be of interest that ca. 1790 Richard Henry Lee admired the
northern states and felt that he would be more comfortable living there.
Jon Kukla

Henry Wiencek wrote:
> 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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