ก

THE

WRITINGS

OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON;

BEING HIS

CORRESPONDENCE, ADDRESSES, MESSAGES, AND OTHER

PAPERS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE,

SELECTED AND PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS:

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

NOTES, AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BY JARED SPARKS

VOLUME XII.

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

82 CLIFF STREET, NEW YORK.

1848.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight

hundred and thirty-seven, by JARED SPARKS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts