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.

HARTFORD, CONN.:

A. S. HALE & COMPANY.

GEO. W. ROGERS, Chicago, Ill.

E. HANNAFORD & CO., Cincinnati, O.
1870.

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

The Home and Tomb of Washington

HAVE BEEN RESCUED

FROM DECAY,

This Volume is Dedicated

BY

THE AUTHOR