1. Tobias Lear (1762–1816), of Portsmouth, N.H., Harvard 1783, was George Washington’s private secretary from 1786 to 1793. Explaining to Lear that he had been repeatedly delayed by the “most infamous roads that ever were seen,” the president reached Philadelphia at eleven o’clock on the morning of 27 Nov. 1790. Jefferson and other members of Washington’s cabinet postponed their plans to escort him from Gray’s Ferry into the city (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963–. description ends , 8:380; Washington, Papers, Presidential Series description begins The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Jack D. Warren, Mark A. Mastromarino, Robert F. Haggard, Christine S. Patrick, John C. Pinheiro, David R. Hoth, and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1987–. description ends , 6:689, 690; same, Confederation Series description begins The Papers of George Washington: Confederation Series, ed. W. W. Abbot and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1992–1997; 6 vols. description ends , 3:600; Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950–. description ends , 18:78; New York Daily Advertiser, 1 Dec.; Boston Independent Chronicle, 9 Dec.).