HUDSON EDITION

LIFE

OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON

BY

WASHINGTON IRVING

IN FIVE VOLS.

VOL. II

NEW YORK

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

27 AND 29 WEST 23D STREET

1882

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by

G. P. PUTNAM AND Co.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.