Excerpt from Correspondence and Remarks in Regard to Bishop Doane's Signature of the Name of Horace Binney
Bishop Doane, on the 3oth A pm], 1845, (the time is a necessary inference from his own statement,) took the liberty of signing my name as a subscriber for one thousand dollars, to a subscription paper for building a new church in Burlington, he and myself never having been in habits of intercourse which had the least cast of intimacy or confidence. The subscription was in these words Horace Binney (by G. W. One thousand dollars.