What I’m saying is, look what people said and wrote–you, know–the hard evidence.
That's not hard evidence of what they thought, any more than Trump's claims about the 2020 election and the 2021 coup are hard evidence of what he thought, let alone hard evidence of what actually happened.
Nobody launching a coup or a revolution admits that they're doing it because they want to seize power. They always use some kind of justification. That's all these people were doing. Washington's illegal purchases of land in the Indian territory are pretty clear evidence that he had an economic incentive to overthrow the British so he could claim that land.
When the Egyptian military overthrew the democratically elected president in 2013, they justified it by saying that he failed to meet the demands of the people. Does that make that true? Or could it be that they were grabbing power for a different reason? If you're only going to trust what people write to justify coups or revolutions, you'll discover that every single coup or revolution is fully justified and done for the most noble of reasons. But, actual historians who study these things look at the receipts, often literally. They follow the money and use that to understand why people were acting the way they were.