George Washington, Volume I

This edition has been carefully revised, and although very little has been added of late years to our knowledge of the facts of Washington's life, I have tried to examine all that has appeared. The researches of Mr. Waters, which were published just after these volumes in the first edition had passed through the press, enable me to give the Washington pedigree with certainty, and have turned conjecture into fact. The recent publication in full of Lear's memoranda, although they tell nothing new about Washington's last moments, help toward a completion of all the details of the scene.
H.C. LODGE.
WASHINGTON, February 7, 1898.
From the painting by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This painting is owned by the Boston Athenæum and is known as the Athenæum portrait.
Autograph is from Washington's signature to a bill of exchange, from Talks about Autographs by George Birkbeck Hill.
From Homes of American Statesman, published by Alfred W. Putnam, New York.
From an original painting in the possession of Lawrence Washington, Esq., Alexandria, Va., a great-great-great-nephew.
Autograph from MS. in New York Public Library, Lenox Building.
From an original painting owned by Dr. James D. Moncure of Virginia, one of her descendants.
No autograph can be found.
From Irving's Washington, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Autograph from Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography.