Last Will and Testament of George Washington, of Mount Vernon: The Only Authenticated Copy, Full and Complete, Embracing a Schedule of His Real Estate, and Explanatory Notes Thereto by the Testator; to which is Added Important Historical Notes, Biographical Sketches, and Anecdotes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - 66 strani |
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Academy aforesaid Alexandria Alfred Moss Association Bank Bartholomew Dandridge Bushrod Washington Charles CITY OF WASHINGTON Clerk Congress conveyance County Court Court of Fairfax Craik daughter death deceased brother Dogue Creek Dogue Run Executors Fairfax County father Fayette folio fund George Steptoe Washington George Washington George Washington Parke give and bequeath governor heirs held hereby hundred acres improvement ington inter Irving Irving's Washington ITEM-To James River James River Company John Augustine Washington John Parke Custis Kanhawa land late Lawrence Lewis Legislature little hunting Creek lots Loudoun Loudoun County lyes Martha Wash Mount Vernon Ladies name and style navigation paid possession Potomac Company Potomac River R. E. Lee remains Revolutionary Samuel Washington Schedule slaves sold TESTAMENT OF GEORGE thereof Thornton tion tract Trustees twenty Union valuable vault Virginia Assembly Wash Washington Parke Custis Westmoreland county wife William Winchester young
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Stran 53 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Stran 2 - ... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Stran 8 - ... to which the youths of fortune and talents from all parts thereof may be sent for the completion of their education, in all the branches of polite literature, in arts and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and, as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment, by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have...
Stran 64 - ... idleness ; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed.
Stran 21 - ... as on account of the affection I had for, and the obligation I was under to, their father when living, who from his youth had attached himself to my person, and followed my fortunes through the vicissitudes of the late Revolution, afterwards devoting his time to the superintendence of my private concerns for many years, whilst my public employments rendered it impracticable for me to do it myself, thereby affording me essential services, and always performing them in a manner the most filial...
Stran 20 - Beginning at the ford of Dogue Run, near my Mill, and extending along the road, and bounded thereby, as it now goes, and ever has gone, since my recollection of it, to the ford of Little Hunting Creek, at the Gum Spring, until it comes to a...
Stran 8 - For these reasons, it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and state prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit from our national councils.
Stran 18 - To each of my nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of the swords or couteaux, of which I may die possessed ; and they are to choose in the order they are named. These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for...
Stran 7 - ... but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome; for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency...