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J. L. Bell said...

I don’t think we have any other eyewitness description of Washington’s arrival in New York besides Janet Montgomery’s, so it’s possible that historians and biographers decided her account was better than nothing.

At some point some authors dropped her detail of the sulky. That’s allowed other, more recent authors to describe Gen. Washington in his purple sash and feathered hat and also to say he was on horseback so as to enter the town with a more military appearance.

But digging back to the earliest sources raises some dust, and some doubts.

Jun 28, 2011, 1:19:41 AM

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