dered with the name of
Washington; some in gold and silver letters, and some in pearls.

"About ten o'clock I accompanied the admiral to the wharf of
embarkation for his ship. As we passed the house where the
president lodged, De Pondevez and his party expressed great
surprise at the absence of all sort of parade or noise. 'What!'
said he, 'not even a sentinel? In Europe,' he added, 'a
brigadier-general would have a guard; and here this great man, the
chief of a nation, does not permit it!'

"The next day was Sunday, and immediately after morning service,
Mr. Joseph Russell, an intimate friend of the governor, called at
our house, and told my father that his excellency had swallowed the
bitter pill, and was then on his way to visit the president--to
which step he had been urged by a report that the people generally
condemned his false pride."

[22] The address from the town was accompanied by a request, in behalf
of the ladies of Boston, that he would sit for his portrait, to be
placed in Faneuil hall, that others might be copied from it for their
respective families. On account of a want of time he was compelled to
decline, but promised to have it painted for them after his return to
New York.

[23] "At half-after seven," he says in his diary, "I went to the
assembly, where there were about seventy-five well-dressed, and many of
them very handsome ladies, among whom (as was also the case at the Salem
and Boston assemblies) were a greater proportion with much blacker hair
than are usually seen in the southern states."

[24] Between Uxbridge and Pomfret, the president lodged at an inn kept
by Mr. Taft, where he was so much pleased with the family, that on his
arrival at Hartford he wrote the following letter to Mr. Taft:--

"HARTFORD, _8th November, 1789._

"SIR: Being informed that you have given my name to one of your
sons, and called another after Mrs. Washington's family, and being
moreover very much pleased with the modest and innocent looks of
your two daughters, Patty and Polly, I do for these reasons send
each of these girls a piece of chintz; and to Patty, who bears the
name of Mrs. Washington, and who waited more upon us than Polly
did, I send five guineas, with which she may buy herself any little
ornament she may want, or she may dispose of them in any other
manner more agreeable to