Boyhood of George Washington Shows Pranks and Plans
The article outlines George Washington's boyhood at Mount Vernon and on the Rappahannock, describing his early curiosity, pranks with Peter, and his shift from a maritime dream to surveying. It notes his mother’s influence, his father's will, and his brothers' guidance shaping the future first President.
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Louise
George Washington
Augustine Washington
Mary
Washington
Fredericksburg
Rappahannock
Peter
Massa
George
Adon
Mount Vernon
Lawrence
Augustine
Plantera
Reading
Lord Fairfax
Lordairfax
Washington’s Formative Years Sharpened By Trials
The youth and early life of George Washington featured a close bond with an older mentor, fostering personal strength and endurance. He grew bold, found pleasure in danger, and developed decisiveness and swift judgment while embracing riding as a key pursuit.
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George Washington
Washington
Remarkable Washington Bust Found in London Auction
A newly discovered bust of George Washington in London shows him as a young man at the start of his career. Sold at Sotheby's for 50 dollars, the French bronze work by Fournier may have been made in America. English dealer Rochelle Thomas acquired the piece amid other items in the sale.
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London
George Washington
Washington
Sotheby's
Lord Amherst
Rochelle Thomas
Thomas
Fournier
America
Europe
Portraits and relics of Washington and founders auctioned
The passage notes a vest with an open top button, a calm masterful expression, and Washington wearing a braided wig called a pigtail. It mentions many relics of Washington, Franklin, Penn and other founders appearing in English auction rooms, likely from deceased family estates.
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Washington
Franklin
William Penn
Administrators Notices From Early 1900s Pennsylvania Deeds
A compilation of administrator and executrix notices for estates in Pennsylvania towns like Smicksburg Homer City Blairsville White and Indiana, dated January 1914. The notices request creditors to present claims for settlement and debtors to make payments, naming administrators and newspapers with various misspellings and OCR errors.
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Peeler & Fell
Alexander McCracken
Blacklick Township
John L. Long
Somer City
George Larish
Ate
Homer City
Borrough
Sarah A. Tuesell
Blairsville
Margaret Roussele
Executriz
Biairaville
Hirnest Stewart
Sylvester Rey
White Township
Charles H. Hilchenand
Notice to heirs of Mary A Altimus Indiana land sale
Attorney Trolm A Hil publishes to the heirs of Mary A Altimus that no application will be made to the Orphans Court of Indiana County Pennsylvania on the first day of March at 10:00 a m for approval of a private sale of the surface of a tract of land in Bullittom Township Indiana County Pennsylvania. The tract is about 160 acres and bounded by lands of N D Altimus J B Graham Silas Conrad and others.
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Trolm A. Hil
Mary
Altius
Lufington Township
Iudiana County
Pern
Orphans’ Court of
Indiuna
Bullingtom Township
Indiana County
N. D Altinus
J. B. Graham
Silas Conrad
Altimus
Fairfield Avenue
Johnstown
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David Ellis &Son
Henry H. Steving
Cg, Heber Steving
Henry H. Steving & Son
M. Edith Steving
Ladies & Children
Automobile Service
Philadelphia St
Martha Washington
Benjamin
Dinsmore Bros
Waverly
Waverly Oil Works Co
Pittsburgh
G. W. Irwin
West Mahoning Township
A. B. Irwin
Smicksburg
Mia
Edward Guy Lingenfelter
Guy Lingrenfruter
Ernest
Tan
Amerigan Beauty
Pennsylvania Ciide
Pennsylvania Petroleum
American Independent OF CO
Rooms 4
Marshall Bldg
Penn’a
Geo. D. Leydic
North Sixth St
W. F. Frederick Pianos
N. Sixth Street
Rossmoyne
Missouri
Rossmoyne Flouring Mills
T.H. Frantz Ibert G. Frantz
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