WASHINGTON, George. Partly printed document signed ("Go:Washington") as President, COUNTERSIGNED BY SECRETARY OF STATE THOMAS JEFFERSON, by William Lindsay, Collector of the Port of Norfolk, and John Murson, Notary; issued in Norfolk, Virginia, 13 June 1
WASHINGTON, George. Letter signed ("Go:Washington") as Commander-in-Chief, Continental Army, To Nicholas Cooke, Governor of Rhode Island, the text in the hand of his aide, George Johnston, Morris Town, [New Jersey], 2 February 1777.1 page, folio (13 x 8 3/16 in.), ...
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George Washington - Plantation, Marriage, Revolutionary: Immediately on resigning his commission, Washington was married (January 6, 1759) to Martha Dandridge, the widow of Daniel Parke Custis. She was a few months older than he, was the mother of two ch
In 1795, Washington signed the “Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty; and The United States of America,” orJay’s Treaty, so-named forJohn Jay, who had negotiated it with the government of KingGeorge III. It helped the U.S. avoid war with Great Britain...
He observed that it was a “dismal irony” when this homebody died in a plane crash en route to a speaking engagement in Washington, D.C. But let us remember the joys she brought to so many through her work. Merkin wrote that Hokinson was “a beloved aunt among the family of New ...
We were still living at 330 Wadsworth Avenue on Washington Heights. But then my father’s older brother came over to help out with the business in New York; another brother settled in Brussels and that was the office representing the company for Europe. And the other brother stayed in ...
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Washington had no children of his own, but he later adopted two of his wife's grandchildren: George Washington Parke Custis and Eleanor Custis, who married Washington's nephew Lawrence. The marriage was a comfortably happy one. It made him rich, for the Custis plantation covered some 17,000...
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