Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-10-31
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OREAI NAIlONAL NGitA.
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LIFE OF WASHINGTON,
By JARED SPARES.
Each number to contain beteceen fortg and fifty
ges, and be em6eltisaed ruth the foilOgoing fine
Steel and Coperplate Engravings, Uaz:
Portrait of Washington at 40, by Peale.
do Mrs Washington at 26, by WolaStoG.
3 View of Mount Vernon.
Battle of Braddock's defeat
Head Quarters at Cambridge.
6 Plan of Boston and environs.
Head Quarters at Morristown.
s Head Quarters at NewOurg.
Plan of Farms at Mount Vernon.
10 Battle of Brand wine.
III Portrait of Washington, by Stewart.
IL Encampmeht at Valley Forge.
13 Battle of Germantown.
Ia Fac Smile of Washington's handwriting.
The Portraits were copied from the original
paintings. The plans, sketches, and other engra-
wings, have been compiled from the best draw
ings, as well English and French as American.
Special aid was derived from series OF Manu-
script drawings in the possession of Gen. La Fay
ette, which are executed with scientific accuracy
and beauty.
The we'll known ability Of the author, the abun-
dant means which he possessed, viz: more than
two hundred Folio volumes of Original manu-
scripts, purchased by Congress. ten years
searches in the public Offices in London, Paris.
Washington, and all the States which formed the
conlederacy during the Revolution, we'll as the
access he has gained to valuable private papers in
different parts of the country-have brought into
his hands mass of materials, original and impor-
tant in their character, which we trust will. be-
found to have contributed essential aid IN enabling
him to execute with more accuracy and complete
ness his main purpose, and thus to have cohlpen-
sated in some degree for the time and labur they
have cost. Its publication has not only involved
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The price affixed TO this work is less, when the
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