The old negro was his servant, Billy Lee, who suffered an accident to his knee, which made him a cripple for the rest of his life.

This he spent at Mount Vernon well cared for.

Washington continued to the end the old custom of supplying a hogshead of rum for the negroes to drink at harvest time, always premising that they must partake of it sparingly.
Washington's religious beliefs and practices have also occasioned much controversy.

If we accept his own statements at their plain value, we must regard him as a Church of England man.

I do not discover that he was in any sense an ardent believer.