Excerpt from Mrs. Elizabeth J. Stone: Sketch Mrs. Stone's maternal grandfather was Rob ert King, a surveyor of note in England who came here with his family in 1797, and was made surveyor of Washington when it existed as a city only on maps and charts. He after wards returned to England, where he died, but his daughter, Jane King, who had become the wife of Mr. John Lenthall, remained in Wash ington, as did the two sons, Nicholas and Robert King, Jr., both of whom were surveyors of eminence, the latter holding, after his father the position of surveyor of the city. 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.