1 do. Marble, 1 Bust of General Washington in Plaster, from the Life, 1 Profile in Plaster, 100.00 50.00 25.00 1 Small Case containing three Straw Rings, one Farmer's Luncheon box 1.71 1 Silk Sash (Military,) 20.00 1 Velvet Housing for a Saddle and Holsters, trimmed with Silver Lace, 5.00 1 Piece of oil cloth, containing Orders of Masonry, $50.00 25 Shares Stock of the Bank of Alexandria, 24 do. do. Potomac Company, (at £100 st❜g.) Cash, } 2500 } 6,246.00 5,000.00 10.666.00 254.70 1 Sett of Shoe and Knee Buckles, Paste, in Gold, 250.00 1 Pair of Shoe and Knee Buckles, Silver, 5.00 2 Gold Cincinnati Eagles, 1 Diamond do. 30.00 387.00 1 Gold Watch, Chain, two Seals, and a Key, 175.00 1 Compass in Brass Case, .50 1 Gold Box, Presented by the Corporation of New New York, 100.00 5 Shares of James River Stock at $100, 500.00 170 Shares of Columbia Stock at $40, 1 Large Gold Medal of General Washington, 1 Gold Medal of St. Patrick's Society, 1 Ancient Medal (another Metal,) $6,800.00 150.00 11 Medals in a Case, 1 Large Medal of Paul Jones, 3 Other Metal Medals, 1 Brass Engraving of the Arms of the United States, 1 Pocket Compass, 1 Case of Instruments, Parallel Rule, &c. 1 Pocket Book, 44 Lbs. 15 oz.. Plate belonging to Mount Vernon. 8.00 2.00 50.00 4 00 1.00 10.00 5.00 17.50 5.00 900.00 On page 288 is printed part of a letter from Washington to Henry Lee, written in Philadelphia in October, 1793, concerning a new threshing machine, in which lie complained of the difficulties he had experienced in trying to teach overseers and servants new ways of farm management and labor. "As a proof in point," he said, "of the almost impossibility of putting the overseers of this country out of the track they have been accustomed to walk in, I have one of the most convenient barns in this, or perhaps any other country, where thirty hands may with great ease be employed in thrashing. Half of the wheat of the farm was actually stowed in this barn, in the straw, by my order, for thrashing; notwithstanding, when I came home about the middle of September, I found a treading-yard not thirty feet from the barn door, the wheat again brought out of the barn, and horses treading it out in a open exposure, liable to the vicissitudes of weather.” The great barn here mentioned was circular in form, and the lower half of the wall was built of bricks. It was three or four miles from the Mount Vernon Mansion. It was yet |