George Washington, Yankee?

From Thomas Jefferson's "Notes of a Conversation with Edmund Randolph" (after 1795):

"the P. [President--i.e., Washington] speaking with R. [Randolph] on the hypothesis of a separation of the Union into Northern and Southern said he had made up his mind to remove and be of the Northern."
http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-28-02-0441

Challenge: this actually happens--there is a North-South separation in the 1790's, and Washington moves to the North...
 
Easy. He almost married a northern woman from the Livingston or De Lancey clan (his old friend from Virginia Beverly Robinson, later of the Tories, married her sister, I think) from New York who was an heiress, probably richer than Martha. He might have been one of the patroons of the Valley.

I forgot her name but she ended up marrying a British officer in after the 7 Years War.
 
What is the North South line in the conversation? Maybe Washington goes North and takes Virginia with him.
 
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