Author: John Corry

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-24

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780282010461

Excerpt from Biographical Memoirs of the Illustrious General George Washington: Late President of the United States of America, and Commander in Chief of Their Armies, During the Revolutionary War Among thofe patriots who have a claim to our veneration, George Waihington appears in a confpicuous place m thefirfirank The ancefi ors of this extraordinary man, in the year 1657, emigrated from Englandto America, and fettled in the colony of Virginia here, by unremiting indufiry they became opulent and refpeetable, and gave their name to the parilh of Walhing ton, in Wefimoreland coun ty.-george Wall) ington, the hero of the following biliary, was the fruit of a fecond marriage, and was born in the fettlemerit of Chotank, in the above-mention ed county, on the llth of 1782. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.