Sketch of the Life of the Illustrious Washington, First President of the United States of America (Classic Reprint)

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The Honourable george washington, commander-in-chief of the American forces, and first President of the United States of America, Was born at Bridges Creek, in Virginia, on the 22d of February, in 'the year 1732. He was the son of Augustine Washington, and grandson of John Washington, of respectable connections in the north of England, who settled in America in 1657.

Augustine, the fatherof our hero, died in 1743, leaving two daughters, and one son, Lawrence, by his first w1fe Jane Butler George was the eldest son, by his second marriage, with Mary Ball. In boyhood he displayed a great inclination for mathematical pursuits, every thing he did was executed with method, exactness, and neatness: when only thirteen, he had filled thirty folio pages with copies of bills, receipts, and business transactions, which he headed 'forms of Writing? In his manuscripts, which were found at Mount Vernon after hls decease, was the following code of maxims, which, as it formed a foundation of the correct principles from which this great man never deviated in after life, and as they were penned at the same early period of his career, cannot fail to be read with admiration by the friends of this noble character.

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