 Benson Lossing attended a Methodist service at Pohick Church on December 10, 1848, and recorded the event in his widely-read "Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution"; he stated in his account that during the service he sat in the Washington family pew.He also noted the presence of a number of broken windows in the building.Furthermore, he recorded that the pulpit appeared to have been the target of vandals, and that birds had built nests around it and otherwise used it as a perch.