28   Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 3; WGW, vol. 36, 6-3-1798.

29   Ibid., p. 126.

30   Ibid., p. 146.

31   WGW, vol. 37, 2-28-1799

32   Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 226-227.

33   WGW, vol. 10, 12-20-1777.

34   WGW, vol. 37, 8-29-1799.

35   This letter is not found in the Writings of George Washington, but it is in The Papers of George Washington, ed. Dorothy Twohig (University of Virginia), Retirement Series, July 3, 1799, to Mason Locke Weems, Last Volume, pp. 173-74.

36   Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 193; WGW, vol. 30, 12-23-1789.

37   By Isaac Lewis, D. D. Pastor of a Church in Greenwich. Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin. 1797. ELECTION SERMON “The Political Advantages of Godliness.” By Isaac Lewis, D. D. Pastor of a Church in Greenwich. Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin. 1797. At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford on the second Thursday of May, Anno Domini 1797.

38   See WGW, vol. 36, 8-14-1797. These sermons are not in Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum.

39   Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 119.

40   WGW, vol. 29, 2-22-1788;

41   Ibid., vol. 30, 6-22-1788.

42   WGW, vol. 16, 9-8-1779. Note: The eulogium was “An Eulogium of the brave men who have fallen in the contest with Great Britain,” delivered July 5, 1779, in the German Calvinist Church in Philadelphia. A copy is in the Library of Congress. See Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 192.

43   WGW, vol. 37, 11-6-1781. To Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. See The Works & Life of Laurence Sterne, 2 Volumes (New York: J. F. Taylor and Co., 1904). Sterne’s collection of sermons was also in Washington’s library. See Lane, Catalogue of the Washington Collection, p. 192.

44   Boston: Printed by Samuel Hall, in School-Street., 177., Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum p. 118.

45   By Isaac Lewis, D. D. Pastor of a Church in Greenwich. Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin. 1797. ELECTION SERMON “The Political Advantages of Godliness.” By Isaac Lewis, D. D. Pastor of a Church in Greenwich. Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin. 1797. At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford on the second Thursday of May, Anno Domini 1797.

46   See WGW, vol. 36, 8-14-1797. These sermons are not in Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum

47   Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 71.

48   Abiel Leonard, A prayer, composed for the benefit of the soldiery, in the American army, to assist them in their private devotions; and recommended to their particular use. By Abiel Leonard, A.M. Chaplain to General Putnam’s regiment, in said army.,(Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed and sold by S. & E. Hall., 1775).

49   Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 75.

50   Philadelphia: Printed by James Chattin., 1755

51   Philadelphia. Printed and sold by James Humphreys, Junior, the corner of Black-Horse Alley, Front-Street., M,DCC,LXXV. [1775], Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 70

52   Philadelphia: Printed by Ormrod & Conrad, at the Old Franklin’s Head, no. 41, Chesnut-Street., March, 2d. 1795. Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 226.

53   Philadelphia: Printed by John Ormrod, no. 41, Chesnut-Street,, 1799., Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 226.

54   Chatham, N.J. Printed by Shepard Kollock, at his office in Chatham., [1779]

55   Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street,, M,DCC,LIX. [1759], Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum p. 193.

56   Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, bookseller, no. 52, Second-Street, corner of Chesnut-Street., M,DCC,XCV. [1795]

57   New-York— Printed by Thomas Greenleaf., [1793]

58   See Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 154.

59   Robert Davidson, D.D., A Sermon, on the Freedom and Happiness of the United Sates of America, preached in Carlisle, on the 5th Oct. 1794. And published at the request of the Officers of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Troops of Light Horse. By Robert Davidson, D.D. Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, and One of the Professors in Dickinson College. (Philadelphia: printed by Samuel H. Smith for Robert Campbell. 1794), 29 pp. See Lane, The Washington Collection, pp. 64-65.

60   Twohig, Diaries, October 5, 1794.

61   Twohig, The Diaries of George Washington, volume 5, November, Sunday 8th, 1789. “It being contrary to Law & disagreeable to the People of this State (Connecticut) to travel on the Sabbath day and my horses after passing through such intolerable Roads wanting rest, I stayed at Perkins’s Tavern (which by the bye is not a good one) all day—and a meeting House being with in a few rod of the Door, I attended Morning & evening Service, and heard very lame discourses from a Mr. Pond.”

62   Twohig, Diaries, Sunday July 3, 1791. “Received, and answered an address from the Inhabitants of York town—& there being no Episcopal Minister present in the place, I went to hear morning Service performed in the Dutch reformed Church—which, being in that language not a word of which I understood I was in no danger of becoming a proselyte to its religion by the eloquence of the Preacher.” PGW, vol. 6.

63   The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Papers of George Washington. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. [November 1789]

64   The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Papers of George Washington. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. [ January 1797]

65   Lane, Washington Collection, Boston Athenaeum, p. 502.

66   Ibid., p. 503.

67   Ibid., p. 39.

APPENDIX 6

1     Abiel Leonard, A prayer, composed for the benefit of the soldiery, in the American army, to assist them in their private devotions; and recommended to their particular use. By Abiel Leonard, A.M. Chaplain to General Putnam’s regiment, in said army. (Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed and sold by S. & E. Hall., 1775.)

2     WGW, vol. 4, 12-15-1775. To Governor Jonathan Trumbull

APPENDIX 7

1     Reverend Bryan Fairfax, Sermon by the Reverend Bryan Fairfax. Virginia Historical Society Rare BV 4500 P14, pp. 261-276.

APPENDIX 8

1     Johnson, George Washington The Christian, p. 67.

2     Fields, Worthy Partner, p. 371.

3     Fields, Worthy Partner, p. 339.

APPENDIX 9