he and thatcher and wadsworth reside in a boarding house. seventh congress meets and thatcher is gone. wadsworth finds other housing and meets roommate now who is a guy named reverend manasseh cutler. he's from northern massachusetts. he's kind of an every man. he's a lawyer, he's a merchant, he's a subject of many of you might know him as a subject of development of the ohio country because he's one of the main lobbyist for the ohio company that promotes settlement to the ohio river valley. so, from now on, most of the letters, most of the voices the primary voices you are going to be hearing our nathan reid and manasseh cutler. fortunately for us, they both left illuminate records of their letters and other writings. mostly up in salem, massachusetts. and they, besides being colleagues in terms of the documentary records are left behind, they inhabit the same boarding house room. i don't know if you can see my cursor, but it is right here and it is where the library of congress jefferson building sits now. for those of you, you know it's c

i am going to use the words of these three men, wadsworth, reed, and cutler. reed and cutler are roommates. at some point i will be throwing in words by william plumber a senator from new hampshire. he came in a year later to fill a vacated seat. he shows up in december of 1802. again, all of these things are spin-offs of my book on thatcher. i was curious, once thatcher leaves congress what happened everwards? what happened to the federalist congressman from massachusetts, new hampshire, the other new england states primarily would were left behind to carry on the federalist fight. i call all of this talk experiencing defeat, it is a ripoff of christopher hill's famous book the experience of defeat which looks at how levellers, quakers, parliamentarians dealt with the restoration after the english civil car in the 18 60s. i wanted to see how they dealt with defeat. from that chronological episode, full, i tease otd four themes. they all cover -- kind of like micro history. he teased them out of their record of the first three or four days of 1802 during the f

he and thatcher and wadsworth reside in a boardinghouse. so he only serves one term, and so now they have a roommate manassas cutler who leads a congregation from northern massachusetts. he is an everyman, a lawyer, merchant, and many may know him of the subject of the book of the development of the ohio country, because he is one of the lobbyists of the ohio country who promotes the settlement of the ohio river valley. so from now on most of the letters and the primary voices that you will be hearing are nathan read and mannasa cutler and lucky for us they left voluminous records of their writings. and that is up in massachusetts and besides them being colleagues, and the writings they left behind, but they are colleagues and roommates in the boardingroom here, and if you can see the curser, but it is right here, and it is where the library of congress jefferson building sits now. for those who are antequaria snshgs know this is the home of josius king. so this is the first congress calling washington, d.c., home. so josius king writes abo

and washington is lafayette hamilton and henry knox and others at the hartford conference at jeremiah wadsworth's house in downtown hartford conferring with the french general and his -- this is september of 1780. it's the same stretch of time, those three days. it's around like 21st, 22nd, 23rd. the same 22nd is when alexander hamilton, benedict arnold rather is meeting with john andre, aka john anderson, and they are meeting south of west point. it's on the same day. so uncanny timing. after that conference in hartford washington is returning with hamilton and lafayette and others back to west point to meet with hamilton, i mean arnold rather to go over the fortifications at west point. arnold is absent. he's gone. washington is trying to figure out why isn't he here? something's amiss. now it's very clear that arnold has already decided he's going to escape on the aptly named h.m.s. vulture. a great one for a traitor, and hamilton decides immediately the quick thinking officer that he is that he must prepare the army for a possible counterattack. first he attempts to capture arnold himself. he