The Mother of Washington and Her Times

CHAPTER XIV

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Tributes of her Countrymen 353

ILLUSTRATIONS

Supposed Portrait of Mary Washington _Frontispiece_ PAGE

An Old Doll 39

Horn-book 41

Ducking-stool 44

The Old Stone House 45

William and Mary College _Facing_ 59

Old Yeocomico Church " 63

Monument at Wakefield marking the Birthplace of George Washington 75

George Washington's Apron 82

Bewdley _Facing_ 83

Pohick Church, Mount Vernon, Virginia 86

Mrs. Washington persuades George not to go to Sea 100

Kenmore House 103

The Hall at Kenmore, showing the Clock which belonged to Mary Washington 111

Nellie Custis _Facing_ 112

George Washington as Major 115

General Braddock 118

Mount Vernon _Facing_ 120

St. Peter's Church, in which George Washington was married 123

Martha Custis _Facing_ 124

Williamsburg 124

"Light-horse Harry" Lee 133

Governor Spotswood 134

Prince Murat 140

Colonel Byrd 147

Westover _Facing_ 150

The Kitchen of Mount Vernon 156

James Monroe 165

Mrs. Charles Carter 177

Mary Washington's House in Fredericksburg _Facing_ 183

Monticello. The Home of Thomas Jefferson 188

The Garden at Mount Vernon _Facing_ 189

Elsing Green 192

Mount Airy _Facing_ 192

Bushrod Washington 206

Mary Ambler 210

Chief Justice John Marshall 211

Lord Dunmore 237

Robert Carter of Nomini Hall 241

Abigail Adams 248

Oratory Rock 260

Sir William Howe 265

Major André 270

Arthur Lee 274

Vergennes 289

Beaumarchais 290

Silas Deane 291

Benjamin Franklin 292

General Burgoyne 295

General Gates 296

Rochambeau 297

De Grasse 298

Lord Cornwallis 300

Greenway Court _Facing_ 302

George Washington Parke Custis 306

The Chair used by George Washington when Master of Fredericksburg Lodge 307

General Lafayette _Facing_ 313

John Adams 328

Washington's Reception at Trenton 343

Mary Washington's Monument 357

The Avenue of Poplars at Nomini Hall 363

AUTHORITIES

Virginia Historical Magazine.

William and Mary Quarterly.

Virginia Historical Register.

Meade's Old Churches and Families of Virginia.

Campbell's History of Virginia.

Irving's Life of Washington.

Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington. By George Washington Parke Custis.

Cooke's Virginia.

The Bland Papers. By Campbell.

Howe's Virginia.

Journal of Philip Vickars Fithian.

Towers's Lafayette.

Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles.

Morse's Franklin.

Lecky's England in the Eighteenth Century.

Fiske's American Revolution.

Sparks's Diplomatic Correspondence.

Washington's Works.

Bancroft's History of the United States.

Life and Letters of George Mason. By Kate Mason Rowland.

Beaumarchais and his Times.

Edwardes's Translations of Lemonie.

Lives of the Chief Justices of England.

Twining's Travels in America.

Burnaby's Travels.

The Story of Mary Washington. By Marion Harland.

Randall's Life of Jefferson.

Worthies of England. By Thomas Fuller.

Foote's Sketches of Virginia.

Parton's Franklin.

A Study in the Warwickshire Dialect. By Appleton Morgan, A.M., LL.B.

Maternal Ancestry of Washington. By G. W. Ball.