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The True George Washington
by Paul Leicester Ford
Author of “The Honorable Peter Stirling”
Editor of “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson” and
“The Sayings of Poor Richard”
“That I have foibles, and perhaps many of them, I shall not deny. Ishould esteem myself, as the world would, vain and empty, were I to arrogateperfection.”
—Washington
“Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught inmalice.”
—Shakespeare
1896
BY
J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
Tenth Edition
Electrotyped and Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO
WILLIAM F. HAVEMEYER,
IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE INDEBTEDNESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS COLLECTION
OF
WASHINGTONIANA.
Contents
List of Illustrations with Notes
MINIATURE OF WASHINGTON. By JAMES SHARPLESS
Painted for Washington in 1795, and presented by him to Nelly (Calvert) Stuart,widow of John Parke Custis, Washington’s adopted son. Her son GeorgeWashington Parke Custis, in whose presence the sittings were made, often spokeof the likeness as “almost perfect.”
MEMORIAL TABLET OF LAURENCE AND AMEE WASHINGTON, IN SULGRAVECHURCH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
The injury of the effigy of Laurence Washington and the entire disappearance ofthe effigy of Amee antedate the early part of the present century, and probablywere done in the Puritan period. Since the above tracing was made the brassesof the eleven children have been stolen, leaving nothing but the lettering andthe shield of the Washington arms.
BETTY WASHINGTON, WIFE OF FIELDING LEWIS
Painted about 1750, and erroneously alleged to be by Copley. Original in thepossession of Mr. R. Byrd Lewis, of Marmion, Virginia.