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Excerpt from Biographical Memoirs of the Illustrious Gen. George Washington, Late President of the United States of America, &C. &C: Containing a History of the Principal Events of His Life, With Extracts From His Journals, Speeches to Congress, and Public Addresses; Also a Sketch of His Private Life
My 22d, 1732, in the Parish of Washington, in Westmoreland County, 1n the itate of Virginia. I - Iis ancestors were possessed of property in Eng. Land, near Cave, in the east riding of Yorkshire, which they sold, and came over year 1657, and purchased lands County, Virginia. His father, mr. Was the second 1n descent after t nd had a numerous offspring: He Was o reperty, and of distinguished red putation was his third son, and the first fruit of hls second marriage. He received his cd neation under the eye of his father, from a private tutor, under whom he acquired a knowledge of the thatin language, sufficient for the ordinary purp08 ' es of life, his mother-tongue. Grammatically and the clements of mathematics, which he, 111 lhis rising. 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.
