Washington's early life and aging events in Mont Vernon era
A historical sketch recounts George Washington's birth in a Potomac area home later burned, family move to a Happa annock farm, and early schooling at an old field school. It notes his 1752 Barbadoes trip, Virginia commission as an officer, and birthday observances through the Revolutionary War era, including stays at Cambridge, Morris Town, and New Windsor amid epidemic fears. The piece also discusses foot and mouth disease in cattle and a diversion into tapeworm research by Von Siebold, linking diet to parasite transmission and noting cysticerci in mice and beef.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Westmoreland County
Potomac
Happaannock
Fredericksburg
Safford County
T Borough
Bémed Hobby
Massachusetts
Boston
Heth
London
Mount Vernoi
Cambridge
Washington in His Youth and Early Military Life
A narrative tracing George Washington from boyhood military games on the Rappahannock to his first field experiences. It covers his surveys in Western Virginia for Lord Fairfax, service in the Kanawha and Mount Vernon celebrations, and his role gathering supplies as the French and Indian War loomed. The account culminates with his 1788 birthday after Britain’s peace treaty was signed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thilyoung Washington
William Bustle
Virginia
Lord Fairfax
Kanawha
George Washington
Alexandria
Shirley
Great Britain
General Washington
Fragmented reminiscences of a nurse and a doll
In a London district nurse vignette from a British author, a poor child with a soiled pinafore holds her father's boot as a doll is gifted and broken. The scene contrasts pathos with scarce care, witnessed by a narrator familiar with the girl as the child and granddaughter of skilled tradespeople. A later note mentions a production milestone of 43,000 pins and three men making 7,500,000 pins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa. M. Loane
London
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Lawrence
Anne Carey
George
Barbadoas
Mount Vernon
Dinwiddle
von Siebold
Wiliam Hanna
Thomson
Orsick Hous
West Nutle
Hampson
Gaton
Newark
Nutley
New
Franklin Aves
Newton Woodruff
Church
S. Davis
Lucas
Garrabrant & Williams
Chestnut St
William R. ‘Stirratt
Chestnut Street
Frankin. Avenue
Barr Bros
Walnut Street
Cor
Avondale
Conte
Lou
Peep
Pace
Phon
Meas
Walnoe
Bri
Martha Washington
Edward Salvage
Doi
Franklin Av., and
Jerolenson St
Belleville
Eink Basa Oe
Ted Ofe
Scheuer Bldg
Newark, N. J
Franklen- Avenue
Bighfield. Lane
Lehigh
Mitriscanal
Argeur
Horace
Osborne
PBB
Newark, N.S
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