Note 248 — Chapter XIV · SOCIETY IN THE OLD DOMINION. (continued 2)

See the history of the case, in Washington’s Writings, ed. W. C. Ford, xiv. 255-260. According to Mr. Paul Ford, “there can scarcely be a doubt that the treatment of his last illness by the doctors was little short of murder.” The True George Washington, p. 58. The question is suggested, if Washington had lived a dozen years longer, would there have been a second war with England?