John Slocum, An Authentic Narrative of the Life of Joshua Slocum: Containing a Succinct Account of His Revolutionary Services (Hartford: Printed for the Author, 1844), 67-8.

As military operations had commenced, it became necessary to designate a proper person as Commander in Chief of our forces. The second Continental Congress being in session at Philadelphia, and this important duty devolving upon it, George Washington, a member of that body from Virginia, was unanimously selected as the man most eminently qualified to fill that high station, and to lead on our army to glory and victory. When this heart-cheering intelligence reached Cambridge, my father informed me that one long, loud and joyful acclamation rent the skies -- each successive post catching the sound, till it was wafted through the entire line of the arm, operating upon it like a shock of electricity upon a morbid system. If, continues he, the mere announcement of his appointment could create so much enthusiasm and awaken such joyous sensations through our ranks, what must have been the feelings inspired when, on the 2d of July, fifteen days from the date of his commission, Washington, in company with Gen. Lee, arrived at Head Quarters in Cambridge -- when, for the first time, we were permitted to see, face to face, the great man who, under God, was destined to achieve the Independence of his country, and to lay broad and deep the foundation of this stupendous republic? For myself I shall not attempt to describe it -- language would fail in the attempt.