Many even of the Episcopal clergymen played cards for money and still kept fast hold upon their belief that they would go to Heaven.
The same may also be said of lotteries, in which Washington now and then took a flier.

Many of the churches of that day, even in New England, were built partly or wholly with money raised in that way.

January 5, 1773, Washington states that he has received sixty tickets in the Delaware lottery from his friend Lord Stirling and that he has "put 12 of the above Sixty into the Hands of the Revd.

Mr.Magowan to sell." And "the Revd." sold them too! In his journal of the trip to Barbadoes taken with his brother Lawrence we find that on his way home he attended "a Great Main of cks [cocks] fought in Yorktown between Gloucester & York for 5 pistoles each battle & 10 ye.

odd." Occasionally he seems to have witnessed other mains, but I have found no evidence that he made the practice in any sense a habit.
As a counterweight to his interest in so brutal a sport I must state that he was exceedingly fond of afternoon teas and of the social enjoyments connected with tea drinking.