Mount Vernon

    "The family vault at Mount Vernon requiring repairs, and being
     improperly situated besides, I desire that a new one of Brick, and
     upon a larger Scale, may be built at the foot of what is commonly
     called the Vineyard Inclosure,-- on the ground which is
     marked out -- In which my remains, with those of my
     deceased relatives (now in the old Vault) and such others of
     my family as may choose to be entombed there, be
     deposited."
 
The tomb which Washington specified in his will; however, was not completed until 1831, after which the bodies of General and Mrs. Washington, along with other family members, were moved there. The marble sarcophagus in which the body of
General Washington now rests was a gift from a Philadelphia stonemason in 1837.

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