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1776,
AFC
2:134–36.
    62.
JCC
5:723–35, for the conference with Howe. See also the editorial note in
AFC
2:124–25.
    63. John’s latter-day recollection of the episode with Franklin is in
DA
3:414–30.
    64.
PA
4:260–302, for the Plan of Treaties.
    65. Ira D. Gruber,
The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution
(New York, 1972), 127–57, and Kevin Phillips,
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America
(New York, 1999), 291–99, provide different but compatible interpretations of Howe’s fateful decision.
    66. JA to AA, 7 October 1776,
AFC
2:139; JA to AA, 11 October 1776,
AFC
2:141.
    67. JA to AA, 10 February 1777,
AFC
2:159; JA to AA, 3 February 1777,
AFC
2:152–53.
    68. AA to Mercy Otis Warren, [January?] 1777,
AFC
2:150–51; all previous accounts are superceded by David Hackett Fischer’s
Washington’s Crossing
(New York, 2004).
    69. AA to JA, 8 February 1777,
AFC
2:157; JA to AA, 3 April 1777,
AFC
2:199–200.
    70. AA to JA, March 1777,
AFC
2:173.
    71. JA to AA, 22 May 1777,
AFC
2:245; JA to AA, 21 February 1777,
AFC
2:166.
    72. JA to JQA, 16 March 1777,
AFC
2:177–78; JA to TBA, 16 March 1777,
AFC
2:178; JA to AA, 17 March 1777,
AFC
2:178–79; JA to CA, 17 March 1777,
AFC
2:179–80.
    73. JA to AA, 13 April 1777,
AFC
2:209.
    74. JA to AA, 16 March 1777,
AFC
2:175–77.
    75. JA to AA, 15 May 1777,
AFC
2:238–39.
    76. AA to JA, 1 June 1777,
AFC
2:250–51.
    77. AA to JA, 30 July 1777,
AFC
2:295.
    78. JA to AA, 6 April 1777,
AFC
2:201; JA to AA, 10 July 1777,
AFC
2:278.
    79. AA to JA, 9 July 1777,
AFC
2:278.
    80. JA to AA, 18 July 1777,
AFC
2:284–85; JA to AA, 30 July 1777,
AFC
2:296–97.
    81. AA to JA, 10–11 July 1777,
AFC
2:278–80; AA to JA, 16 July 1777,
AFC
2:282–83; AA to JA, 23 July 1777,
AFC
2:287.
    82. JA to AA, 28 July 1777,
AFC
2:292.
    83. AA to JA, 5 August 1777,
AFC
2:301; JA to AA, 25 October 1777,
AFC
2:360.
    84. JA to AA, 30 September 1777,
AFC
2:349–50.
    85. JA to AA, 14 November 1777,
AFC
2:366.
CHAPTER THREE . 1778–84
    1. Mercy Otis Warren to AA, 8 January 1778,
AFC
2:379.
    2. AA to James Lovell, 15 December 1777,
AFC
2:370–77.
    3. AA to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778,
AFC
2:390; see also the editorial note on the question of Abigail’s thinking prior to John’s departure.
    4.
DA
4:6–35, for John’s diary account of the voyage.
    5. AA to Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer, 7 March 1778,
AFC
2:397–98; AA to JA, 8 March 1778,
AFC
2:402; AA to JA, 18 May 1778,
AFC
2:22–24; AA to JA, 18 June 1778,
AFC
3:46–47.
    6. AA to JA, 30 June 1778,
AFC
3:51–53.
    7. This is a very rough guess. More letters were lost during the early stage of their separation than during the latter.
    8. JA to AA, 2 December 1778,
AFC
3:124–26; AA to JA, 30 June 1778,
AFC
3:51–53; AA to JA, 12–23 November,
AFC
3:118–20.
    9. AA to JA, 15 July 1778,
AFC
3:59–62; AA to John Thaxter, 19 August 1778,
AFC
3:76–77; AA to JA, 29 September 1778,
AFC
3:94–96; AA to JA, 21 October 1778,
AFC
3:108–9; AA to JA, 27 December 1778,
AFC
3:139–40.
    10. AA to JA, 25 October 1778,
AFC
3:110–11; AA to JA, 2 January 1779,
AFC
3:146–47.
    11.
DA
1:288, for a sketch of Lovell. There is some evidence that Lovell’s quarters in Philadelphia were located in a brothel.
    12. On the correspondence between Abigail and Lovell, see the editorial note in
AFC
3:xxxiv; James Lovell to AA, 13 June 1778,
AFC
3:43–44.
    13. AA to James Lovell, February-March 1779,
AFC
3:184–86.
    14.
DA
4:36, for the Adam and Eve story.
    15.
DA
4:47.
    16. JA to AA, 25 April 1778,
AFC
3:17.
    17.
DA
4:69–71; for John’s assessment of Arthur Lee and Silas Deane,
DA
4:86–87; see the correspondence John generated while performing all the mundane diplomatic duties in
DA
4:36–172.
    18. JA to AA, 9 February 1779,
DA
2:347.
    19. See Walter Isaacson,
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
(New York,2003), 333–36,
for the most
recent account of the spy nest in Franklin’s household. His documentation