Note 12 — Chapter XX · EARLY FREETHOUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES
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Compare the testimony given by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, of Albany, in 1831, as cited by R. D. Owen in his Discussion on the Authenticity of the Bible with O. Bacheler (London, ed. 1840, p. 231), with the replies on the other side (pp. 233–34). Washington’s death-bed attitude was that of a deist. See all the available data for his supposed orthodoxy in Sparks’s Life of Washington, 1852, app. iv. ↑