1From George Washington to John Bullen, 21 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am obliged by the polite and affectionate address of the Citizens of Annapolis. Nothing can be more flattering to me than to know that my general conduct has met the approbation of my Countrymen—it is the most grateful reward for those services which I have ever in the course of my command endeavoured to render them, but which their too great partiality has oftentimes over rated. That the...