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Monuments of Washington's patriotism containing a fac-simile of his public accounts, kept during the revolutionary war. and some of the most interesting documents connected with his military command and civil administration
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- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
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- English
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- 3rd ed. / with additions and embellishments
- Washington [D.C.] : Trustees of Washington's Manual Labour School and Male Orphan Asylum, 1841 (New-York : M. Ludwig)
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- 1 online resource ([19], [1], 52, 65-66, [3], [65]-104 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., 3 ports., plans, facsims.)
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 101724.
- Fac-simile of letters [addressed to Franklin Knight] commending the plan of publishing a third edition -- Introduction : Ancestry of Washington. Chronological statement of the principal events of his life -- Lives by the Rev. William Jay -- Monumental inscription -- Certificate from the office of the register of the Treasury department -- Fac-simile of Washington's account of expenses from 1775 to 1783 -- Plan of a line of march to Fort Duquesne --
- Resolutions of Congress : Washington appointed commander-in-chief. His acceptance. Commission -- Circular letter of Washington to the governors of the several states -- Resolution of Congress to erect an equestrian statue of Washington -- Washington visits Princeton by request of Congress : Address to him by the president of Congress. His reply -- Farewell address of Washington to the army of the United States. Reply of the officers --
- Washington takes leave of the officers of the army in New-York -- Speech of Washington on resigning his commission. Answer by the president of Congress -- Washington inaugurated president of the United States -- Proclamation for a day of thanksgiving -- Washington's legacy, or, Farewell address to the people of the United States -- Letter of Washington accepting the command of the army in 1798 -- Funeral oration on the death of Washington, by General Henry Lee -- Constitution of the United States