Life of Washington: A Biography, Personal, Military, and Political, Volume 1Virtue, 1860 - Presidents |
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Page 20
... party of the Stuarts than would have been done by fifty defeats in battle . Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave , as has been mentioned , had fifteen children . His eldest son , Robert , had sixteen , and the second eldest son in the direct ...
... party of the Stuarts than would have been done by fifty defeats in battle . Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave , as has been mentioned , had fifteen children . His eldest son , Robert , had sixteen , and the second eldest son in the direct ...
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... party of her son's friends , spending the day with him , proposed after dinner to mount the colt and make the circuit of the field . No one could accomplish the feat , and several ET . 15. ] THE FAIRFAX FAMILY . 47 were 46 [ 1747 ...
... party of her son's friends , spending the day with him , proposed after dinner to mount the colt and make the circuit of the field . No one could accomplish the feat , and several ET . 15. ] THE FAIRFAX FAMILY . 47 were 46 [ 1747 ...
Page 49
... party to Greenway Court , and while there wrote a letter to one of his youthful confidants from which it appears that he still suffered from the melancholy depres sion induced by unrequited or hopeless love . " As it is the greatest ...
... party to Greenway Court , and while there wrote a letter to one of his youthful confidants from which it appears that he still suffered from the melancholy depres sion induced by unrequited or hopeless love . " As it is the greatest ...
Page 54
... party proceeded to the mouth of Patterson's creek , where they recrossed the Potomac in a canoe , swimming their horses as before ; and the next day , after travelling a consider- able distance , supped at the house of Solomon Hedges ...
... party proceeded to the mouth of Patterson's creek , where they recrossed the Potomac in a canoe , swimming their horses as before ; and the next day , after travelling a consider- able distance , supped at the house of Solomon Hedges ...
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... party ad- mitted the right of the other to the valley of the Penobscot or to that of the Ohio . In regard to the English colonies here the treaty embraced only the humiliating stipulation that Louisburg , conquered by their own treasure ...
... party ad- mitted the right of the other to the valley of the Penobscot or to that of the Ohio . In regard to the English colonies here the treaty embraced only the humiliating stipulation that Louisburg , conquered by their own treasure ...
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