THE EASTERN TOUR.

I.

SOON after the adjournment of Congress Washington made arrangements for a journey through New England. He anticipated perhaps some pleasure from revisiting the earlier scenes of his command during the revolution,* but he was most anxious for the restoration of his health, and to observe the condition and disposition of the people of that part of the Union.

He sat out from New York on Thursday morning, the fifteenth of October, in his own chariot, drawn by four Virginia bays, and accompanied by two of his secretaries, Tobias Lear and Major Jackson, on horseback. The Chief Justice, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of War, escorted him as far as Rye, where Mr. Jay had his country residence.

As he approached New Haven, in the forenoon of Saturday, he was met by a deputation of members of the legislature of Connecticut, escorted by the guards of the Governor, who conducted him, amid crowds of people, to his lodgings. Governor Huntington, soon after, presented to him a congratulatory address, and the

* As early as 1785 Washington had written to Mr. James Warren of Massachusetts: "It would afford me great pleasure to go over those grounds in your state, with a mind more at ease than when I travelled them in 1775 and 1776, and to unite in congratulation on the happy change, with those characters who participated the anxious moments we passed in those days, and for whom I entertain a sincere regard."

THE EASTERN TOUR.

I.

SOON after the adjournment of Congress Washington made arrangements for a journey through New England. He anticipated perhaps some pleasure from revisiting the earlier scenes of his command during the revolution,* but he was most anxious for the restoration of his health, and to observe the condition and disposition of the people of that part of the Union.

He sat out from New York on Thursday morning, the fifteenth of October, in his own chariot, drawn by four Virginia bays, and accompanied by two of his secretaries, Tobias Lear and Major Jackson, on horseback. The Chief Justice, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of War, escorted him as far as Rye, where Mr. Jay had his country residence.

As he approached New Haven, in the forenoon of Saturday, he was met by a deputation of members of the legislature of Connecticut, escorted by the guards of the Governor, who conducted him, amid crowds of people, to his lodgings. Governor Huntington, soon after, presented to him a congratulatory address, and the

* As early as 1785 Washington had written to Mr. James Warren of Massachusetts: "It would afford me great pleasure to go over those grounds in your state, with a mind more at ease than when I travelled them in 1775 and 1776, and to unite in congratulation on the happy change, with those characters who participated the anxious moments we passed in those days, and for whom I entertain a sincere regard."