“To George Washington from Benjamin Stoddert, 16 October 1799 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0299. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 347.]