List of Illustrations

[MARTHA WASHINGTON]

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 from letter written from Valley Forge, March 7, 1778, now in the possession of Hon. Winslow Warren.

[VIGNETTE of MOUNT VERNON.]

From a photograph.

[WASHINGTON RESIGNING HIS COMMISSION AT ANNAPOLIS]

From the original painting by Trumbull in the Art Gallery of Yale University.

[LAFAYETTE]

From a contemporary French folio engraving in the Emmet collection, New York Public Library, Lenox Building.

[HENRY KNOX]

From the original portrait by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Autograph from Winsor's "America."

[NATHANAEL GREENE]

From the original painting by C.W. Peale, by kind permission of its present owner, Mrs. Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr., Princeton, N.J.

Autograph from Winsor's "America."