Excerpt from Catalogue of the Library of Trials and Legal Literature Belonging to John H. V. Arnold, Esq., The Largest and Most Valuable Collection of the Kind Ever Offered in This City: Comprising Both Civil and Criminal Trials in the Courts of England and America, Carefully Selected to Illustrate Points of Law and to Exhibit the Various Forms of Criminal Conduct The work contains some curious scandal about Washington and Mary Gibbons, a girl from New Jersey, of whom Gen. Washing ton was very fond, and whom he maintained genteelly at a house near Mr. Skinner's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.