Pope Francis of New Rome... Washington, DC (Sweetser & King, King's handbook of the United States, 1891)
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The Federal Capital [...] Its site was bought of the Indians by an Englishman named Francis Pope, who settled here in 1663, and named the place Rome, calling the creek which flows into the Potomac the Tiber, and the elevation on which the U.-S. Capitol now stands the Capitoline Hill. This eccentric and unconscious prophet used to sign himself "Pope of Rome."
Sweetser, Moses Foster; King, Moses, King's handbook of the United States, Buffalo, NY: Moses King Corporation, Publishers, 1891, p. 149.
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