I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.
George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.559
