Again in retirement at Mt. Vernon, 231 _ff_.; and Nelly Custis, 233; his career reviewed, 234, 254-260; Bernard quoted on, 234-236; his detractors, 236, 237; his religious beliefs, 239, 240; declines all public undertakings, 240; his last illness, 241 _ff_.; the last hours described by T. Lear, 243-249; his death, 249; action of Congress and President Adams, 251; his funeral at Mt. Vernon, 252, 253; project for memorial of, abandoned, 254; his rank as a soldier, 256, 257; as President, 258; the most _actual_ statesman of his time, 258; his example made the world change its mind about republics, 259. _Portraits and statues of_, 148-150. _Letters_ (quoted in whole or in part) to John Adams, 217; Theodorick Bland, 131; Rev. Mr. Boucher, 41; William Byrd, 20; Thomas Conway, 112; Francis Dandridge, 51; Robert Dinwiddie, 17, 22; Bryan Fairfax, 62; John Hancock, 9; Benjamin Harrison, 143; Sir W. Howe, 98; Robert Jackson, 24; John Jay, 142, 157; Thomas Jefferson, 221; Henry Knox, 170; Marquis de Lafayette, 143, 145, 170, 171; Henry Laurens, 101, 117; Henry Lee, 203, 221; Richard H. Lee, 96, 147; Robert Mackenzie, 63; George Mason, 56; Gouverneur Morris, 207; Edmund Randolph, 208; Jonathan Trumbull, 231; John Augustine Washington, 23, 75, 85; Lund Washington, 82; Martha (Custis) Washington, 34; Mary Ball Washington, 24. Washington, John, _W_.'s great-grandfather settles in Virginia, 1. Washington, John Augustine, _W_.'s brother, letters of _W_. to, 75, 85; 1, 11, 23. Washington, Lawrence,_W.'s_ half-brother, inherits Mount Vernon, 5; _W_.'s guardian, 5; marries Lord Fairfax's daughter, 5; visits Barbados with _W_., 9-11; his death, 11, 12; 7, 33. Washington, Lund, letter of _W_. to, 82, 83. Washington, Mrs. Martha (Custis), quoted, 104; and _W_.'s last illness, 243 _ff_.; letter of, to President Adams, 254; buried at Mount Vernon, 254; 9, 38, 41, 43, 45, 252, 253. Washington, Mrs. Mary (Ball), _W_.'s mother, 2, 9, 24. Washington, Mildred, _W_.'s niece, _W_. guardian of, 12; her death, 12. Washington family, the, 1. Wayne, Anthony, 191. Webster, Daniel, quoted, 188; 211. Webster, Peletiah, 156. Weems, Rev. Mason L., his _Life of_ _Washington_, discredited, 2, 3. West Point, surrendered by Arnold, 110. Whigs, in Parliament, favor Colonies, 54, 62. Whiskey Insurrection, the, 218, 219. White House (Custis estate), 34, 35, 36. White Plains, Battle of, 83. Wilson, James, 161. Wister, Owen, 30 _n_. Wolcott, Oliver, Jr., 228, 229. Wolfe, James, 28, 105. Wythe, George, 161. X.Y.Z. mission to France, 215, 216. Yates, Robert, 161. Yorktown, Cornwallis surrenders at, 123 _ff_.; the war really ended at, 126; effect in England, 130. End of Project Gutenberg's George Washington, by William Roscoe Thayer