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Title: The Mother of Washington and Her Times
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[Illustration: SUPPOSED PORTRAIT OF MARY WASHINGTON.]
"_That one who breaks the way with tears Many shall follow with a song_"
New York The Macmillan Company London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1903
Copyright, 1903, By the Macmillan Company.
Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1903
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO THE HON. ROGER A. PRYOR, LL.D. IN WHOM LIVES ALL THAT WAS BEST IN OLD VIRGINIA
Young Men and Maidens of the Old Dominion 58
Betty Washington, and Weddings in Old Virginia 102
Social Characteristics, Manners, and Customs 143
"On with the Dance, let Joy be unconfined" 304
The President and his Last Visit to his Mother 340
Mary Washington's Will; her Illness and Death 347
Supposed Portrait of Mary Washington _Frontispiece_ PAGE
Monument at Wakefield marking the Birthplace of George Washington 75
Mrs. Washington persuades George not to go to Sea 100