OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

COMMANDER IN CHIEF

OF THE

ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

THROUGHOUT THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED
THEIR INDEPENDENCE,

AND

FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

BY DAVID RAMSAY, M. D.
Author of the History of the American Revolution.

REVISED AND ENLARGED,

BY WM. GRIMSHAW,

Author of a History of the United States, &c, &c.

BALTIMORE:

PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH JEWETT, AND CUSHING & SONS.

Stereotyped by L. Johnson, Philad.

For the convenience of schools, in which only a small por tion of a class-book is read by each scholar in succession, the paragraphs in this biography, when long, have been divided into sections of about ten lines, by a dash (—); a mode considered preferable to the usual ungrammatical practice of making several distinct paragraphs out of one.

ENTERED, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by JOSEPH JEWETT, JOSEPH CUSHING, JOSEPH CUSHING, jun., and JoHx CUSHING, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Maryland.

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