Imprint Record

George Washington's Farewell Address.

• Imprint Number: 1809.078
• Title: The valedictory address of General George Washington, to the people of the United States, on his retiring from the presidency to enjoy the sweets of domestic life
• Sequence Number: 78
• Year: 1809
• Place Issued: Winchester
• Issuing Press: William Heiskell
• Author: Washington, George (1732-99).
• Notes: An apparently politically-inspired reprinting of Washington's address that counselled against "entangling alliances" in the context of Federalist charges that Jefferson and Madison were forging an alliance with France against Great Britain; Heiskell then conducted the Federalist press in Winchester that had been founded in 1788 by Richard Bowen.
  
  
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  • William Heiskell

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