12 A facsimile appears in Charles Moore, ed., George Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation (Boston, 1926), 2-21. Washington’s rules were largely taken from Francis Hawkins, Youths’ Behaviour, or Decency in Conversation Amongst Men (London, 2ded., 1646).

13 Here I follow a neglected classic of Virginia’s historiography, Samuel Eliot Morison, “The Young Man Washington,” By Land and By Sea (New York, 1953), 161-80.