[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] | |
| 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] |
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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.
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Life and Letters of George Mason. By Kate Mason Rowland.
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.