THE

HOME OF WASHINGTON;

OR

MOUNT VERNON AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS,

HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, AND PICTORIAL

BY BENSON J. LOSSING.

ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS

CHIEFLY FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR, ENGRAVED BY LOSSING & BARRITT

Published by Subscription only.

NEW YORK:

VIRTUE & YORSTON.

1871.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
JUL 191971

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 by

BENSON J. LOSSING.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York.

TO HIS

PATRIOTIC COUNTRY WOMEN,

BY WHOSE EFFORTS

Che Some and Tomb of Washington

HAVE BEEN RESCUED

FROM DECAY,

This Volume is Dedicated

BY

THE AUTHOR