n Hood_, numbered 139, in the town of Edinburgh, in the County
of Prince George, State of Virginia.

_Item._--To my nephew, _Bushrod Washington_,[136] I give and bequeath
all the papers in my possession, which relate to my civil and military
administration of the affairs of this country. I leave to him also such
of my private papers as are worth preserving; and at the decease of my
wife, and before, if she is not inclined to retain them, I give and
bequeath my library of books and pamphlets of every kind.

_Item._--Having sold lands which I possessed in the State of
Pennsylvania, and part of a tract held in equal right with _George
Clinton_, late governor of New York, in the State of New York, my share
of land and interest in the Great Dismal Swamp, and a tract of land
which I owned in the County of Gloucester,--withholding the legal titles
thereto, until the consideration money should be paid,--and having
moreover leased and conditionally sold (as will appear by the tenor of
the said leases) all my lands upon the Great Kenhawa, and a tract upon
Difficult Run, in the County of Loudoun, it is my will and direction,
that whensoever the contracts are fully and respectively complied with,
according to the spirit, true intent, and meaning thereof, on the part
of the purchasers, their heirs or assigns, that then, and in that case,
conveyances are to be made, agreeably to the terms of the said
contracts, and the money arising therefrom, when paid, to be vested in
bank stock; the dividends whereof, as of that also which is already
vested therein, are to inure to my said wife during her life; but the
stock itself is to remain and be subject to the general distribution
hereafter directed.

_Item._--To the _Earl of Buchan_ I recommit the "Box made of the Oak
that sheltered the great Sir _William Wallace_, after the battle of
Falkirk," presented to me by his Lordship, in terms too flattering for
me to repeat, with a request "to pass it, on the event of my decease, to
the man in my country, who should appear to merit it best, upon the same
conditions that have induced him to send it to me." Whether easy or not
to select the man, who might comport with his Lordship's opinion in this
respect, is not for me to say; but, conceiving that no disposition of
this valuable curiosity can be more eligible than the recommitment of it
to his own cabinet, agreeably to the original design of the Goldsmiths'
Company of Edinburgh, who presented it