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master general, must have familiarized him with this 

 dial, and I am convinced it furnished to him the 

 notion for the design, on the first bank-note and 

 coins of the new 

 nation. 



An interesting 

 bit of history 

 allied to America 

 is given to us in 

 the finding of a 

 sun-dial which 

 gives to Ameri- 

 can students of 

 heraldic antiqui- 

 ties another 

 dated shield of 

 the Washing- 

 ton " stars and 

 stripes." 



In Little Bring- 

 ton, Northamp- 

 tonshire, stands a 

 house known as 

 "The Washington 

 House," which 

 gave shelter to the Washingtons of Sulgrave after 

 the fall of their fortunes. Within a stone's throw 

 of the house has recently been found a sun-dial hav- 

 ing the Washington arms (argent) two bars, and in 

 chief three mullets (gules) carved upon it, with the 

 date 1 617. The existence of this stone has been 

 known for forty years ; but it has never been closely 



Sun-dial at "Washington House," Little 

 Brington, England. 



