| Journal of Research: Jan. 1 - Jan. 7, 2001. [35.75]
2001/01/07 0900-1200, 1300-1730 Continued with Washington's Papers, Vol. 2, until I couldn't stand it any more (too much there to transcribe on the Potomac River Company!), then went back to Jefferson, Vol. 6, and added in a number of transcriptions of material dealing with the location of Congress's permanent seat. Re-posted WordPerfect and HTML versions of all recently altered files: WashingtonVol2Confed.wpd/html; jeffersonvolume6.wpd/html; jeffersonvolume7.wpd/html; and jeffersonvolume8.wpd/html.
2001/01/06 0930-1345, 1615-1900 Went back to Jefferson's Papers (Vols. 7 & 8) and transcribed passages dealing with the push to make Georgetown the permanent seat of Congress. Then more of Washington papers, Vol. 2. Ended with a successful search in Maryland's votes and procedings for the October Session, 1777: found the appointment of commissioners for the first (abortive) Potomac conference. The MD commissioners had the same instructions they seemed to have had in 1785.
2001/01/05 1400-1530, 1630-1900, 2300-0100 Transcribed relevant letters from Vol. 2 of Washington's Papers (most of the letters deal with the "opening and extending the navigation of the Potomack"), discussed the project with Mary Jeske.
2001/01/04 0900-1130, 1600-1630 Mary and I FAXed Ron's notes to Ron and to Adam; discussed the background of the 1785 Compact (specifically our need to know more about why commissioners were named in 1778 and in 1784, and how much effect the search for a permanent seat for Congress had on the second appointment); and talked with Adam by phone about our next moves. In the afternoon, Mary and I nailed down our weekend strategy.
2001/01/03 0845-1145, 1245-1815 First typed up some notes written by Ron Hoffman. Then Added the full text of the Compact of 1785 to my notes from the Mason Papers, and re-posted that document to this site. Included are some of my comments in preparation for analyzing the meaning of certain words in the compact ("navigation," "ship," "vessel," "port," etc.) which refer to primarily to sea-going navigation, and not to inland navigation.
2001/01/02 1000-1230, 1615-1730 Mary Jeske and I met with Adam Snyder, Andy Bada, Ed Papenfuse, Ron Hoffman, and Doug Richardson (the last two by conference call) to discuss research strategies. Talked more with Mary and Ron in the afternoon, and picked up some books on the founding of Washington, D.C., at the UMBC library. |
