Life of Washington: A Biography, Personal, Military, and Political, Volume 1Virtue, 1860 - Presidents |
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Page 17
... river , on the twenty - second day of February , in the year of our Lord 1732 , which was the fifth year of the reign of George the Second , sovereign of these dominions . In the same year was planted Georgia , the last of the old ...
... river , on the twenty - second day of February , in the year of our Lord 1732 , which was the fifth year of the reign of George the Second , sovereign of these dominions . In the same year was planted Georgia , the last of the old ...
Page 24
... river , and was surrounded with trees and a finely cultivated garden . Augustine Washington was a large man , with fine health , and addicted to the sports of country gentlemen , but thrifty and pros- perous in his commerce with the ...
... river , and was surrounded with trees and a finely cultivated garden . Augustine Washington was a large man , with fine health , and addicted to the sports of country gentlemen , but thrifty and pros- perous in his commerce with the ...
Page 44
... river , when his mother relented . On the eighteenth of October a friend of the family , Mr. Robert Jackson , wrote to Lawrence Washington from Fredericksburg : " I am afraid Mrs. Washington will not keep up to her first resolution ...
... river , when his mother relented . On the eighteenth of October a friend of the family , Mr. Robert Jackson , wrote to Lawrence Washington from Fredericksburg : " I am afraid Mrs. Washington will not keep up to her first resolution ...
Page 49
... river , whom , with her sister , he had brought home to Belvoir . George Washington received and accepted an invitation from the old lord to accompany the bridal party to Greenway Court , and while there wrote a letter to one of his ...
... river , whom , with her sister , he had brought home to Belvoir . George Washington received and accepted an invitation from the old lord to accompany the bridal party to Greenway Court , and while there wrote a letter to one of his ...
Page 53
... have slept much that night . I made a promise to sleep so no more , choosing rather to sleep in the open air before a fire . " Two days after , finding the river , in consequence of rains that had fallen among the Alleghanies , so.
... have slept much that night . I made a promise to sleep so no more , choosing rather to sleep in the open air before a fire . " Two days after , finding the river , in consequence of rains that had fallen among the Alleghanies , so.
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