of the mouth
from an orifice made by a Doctr. Dick, who some days before attempted
in vain to extract a broken tooth, and coming about 11 o'clock stayed
to Dinner and returned afterwards.[142]

So far as Washington's diaries show, Dr. Dick never crossed the
threshold of Mount Vernon again until fourteen years later on a raw,
cold day in December when the snow lay thick on the ground, he was sent
for by Dr. Craik to attend Washington in his last illness. It was Dr.
Dick who advised against additional bleeding and it was he, who, when
Washington's last breath escaped, walked to the mantel and stopped the
hands of the clock. This clock, with arrested hands, stands today in the
George Washington National Masonic Memorial in Alexandria.

On March 28, 1788, Dr. Dick was offering a reward of eight dollars for a
runaway servant:

I will give the above to any person who will secure in Alexandria
Gaol a Negro fellow named Ned, who ran away from me about three weeks
ago. He is between thirty and forty years of age, about 5 feet 7 or 8
inches high and was formerly the property of Mrs. Clifford of whom I
bought him. Having a wife in Maryland, belonging to Mr. Samuel H.
Bean, I imagine Ned will be inclined to make a nightly resort to her
quarters. His winter clothes were made of a mixed cloth of a gray
color and it is probable he will be found with a soldier's old
napsack upon his back in which he carries his provisions.

Dr. Dick was one of the founders of the Alexandria Masonic lodge, to
which Washington belonged. In 1791 he was Worshipful Master when the
cornerstone of the District of Columbia was laid. Arm in arm with the
President of the United States, who acted as Master, Dr. Dick led the
procession with George Washington in 1793 at the laying of the
cornerstone of the Capitol. This same year, as Master of the lodge, he
solicited the President to "set" for the portrait by William Williams,
which still graces the lodge room. In 1794 he commanded a company of
cavalry raised in Alexandria and under "Light Horse Harry" Lee marched
into Pennsylvania to help quell the famous Whiskey Rebellion. In 1795 he
was superintendent of quarantine, an office he held for many years. In
1798 he was appointed coroner; in 1802, justice of the peace.

Dr. Dick amassed a great deal of property and was constantly buying and
selling land, houses, ships, and so on. In April 1797 he disposed of the
brig _Julia_ t