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Identifier: mountvernonitsas01loss Title: Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial Year: 1859 (1850s) Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Subjects: Publisher: New York, W. A. Townsend and company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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Text Appearing After Image: GUOUXU PLAN ANI> ELEVATION OF POHICK CHURCH. drawn copy on a small scale, but shows every line as seen inWashingtons drawing. Of the ministers who ofiiciated at Pohick, there were none AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 75 more beloved than the Reverend Lee Massey. He was thecompanion of Washington from liis youth, and at his solicita-tion, and that of Mason, Fairfax, MCarty, Chichester, andothers of that parish, he was induced to relinquish the profes-sion of the law, study divinity, and become their pastor. Hisspeech becoming impaired by the loss of his front teeth, he leftthe pulpit, and studied medicine as a means of affording reliefto the poor. Another clergyman, Mho officiated occasionally at Poliickchnrch, after the regular stated services of the Church of Eng-land had ceased there, was the eccentric Mason L. Weems, theearliest biographer of Washington. The style of that biogra-phy was so attractive to the uncultivated readers of his day,that it passed through some forty editions, and ev
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