account to be authentic. Washington biographer and uncle of Howard Hughes, Rupert Hughes, researched the matter and determined that Rev. Gano served with George Clinton's army, not with Washington's, that the location is sometimes given as Valley Forge and sometimes as the Potomac, that there is no documentation of Gano ever being at Valley Forge, that there is nothing in Gano's own correspondence or his biography to suggest that the event took place, and that none of the 42 reputed witnesses ever documented the event. Gano Chapel at William Jewell College in Missouri is named after John Gano, and displays a painting of Gano baptizing Washington. The school takes no stance on whether the baptism of Washington actually took place. The chapel also contains a sword owned by the Marquis de Lafayette that Washington purportedly gave to Gano. Washington's church, Anglican, believed in infant baptism and his christening is recorded as taking place on April 5, 1732, about six weeks after he was born. References External links John Gano's Grave Revolutionary War Chaplaincy Painting of John Gano Baptizing George Washington (At bottom of page.) Brown University Charter The Society of the Cincinnati The American Revolution Institute Bibliography Gano, John. "A Chaplain of the Revolution: Memoirs of the Rev. John Gano." Historical Magazine, 5 (November 1861), pp. 330–335. Wolever, Terry. "The Life & Ministry of John Gano - Volume I." Springfield, MO: Particular Baptist Press, 1998. John Gano, Biographical memoirs of the late Rev. John Gano, of Frankfort (Kentucky): formerly of the city of New York (Printed by Southwick and Hardcastle for J. Tiebout, 1806). 1727 births 1804 deaths Brown University people Princeton University alumni University and college founders People from Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey Baptist ministers from the United States Clergy in the American Revolution People of the Province of New York Religious leaders from New York City American military chaplains American Revolution chaplains Huguenot participants in the American Revolution Baptists from New York (state)