LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN FORCES, DURING THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THE INDEPENDENCE AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COMPILED UNDER THE INSPECTION OF THE HONOURABLE BUSHROD WASHINGTON, FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS BEQUEATHED TO HIM BY HIS DECEASED RELATIVE, AND NOW IN POSSESSION TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE COLONIES PLANTED BY THE ENGLISH ON THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, FROM THEIR SETTLEMENT TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THAT WAR WHICH TERMINATED IN THEIR DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT. SEAL. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the third day of January, in the twenty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, CALEB P. WAYNE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:.... "The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the "American Forces, during the War which established the Indepen"dence of his country, and First President of the United States.... "Compiled under the inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Wash"ington, from original papers bequeathed to him by his deceased "Relative, and now in possession of the author. To which is "fixed, an Introduction, containing a compendious View of the "Colonies planted by the English on the Continent of North Ame"rica, from their settlement to the commencement of that war which "terminated in their Independence. By JOHN MARSHALL." pre In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States entituled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned....And also to the Act intituled "An act Supplementary to an Act intituled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the CONTENTS. Birth of Mr. Washington....His mission to the French on the Ohio....Appointed lieutenant colonel of a regiment of regular troops....Surprises monsieur Jumonville....Capitu- lation of fort Necessity.... Is appointed aid-du-camp to ge- neral Braddock....Defeat and death of that general....Is appointed to the command of a regiment....Extreme dis- tress of the frontiers, and exertions of colonel Washington to augment the regular force of the colony....General Forbes undertakes the expedition against fort du Quesne.... Defeat of major Grant....Fort du Quesne evacuated by the Opinions on the supremacy of parliament, and its right to tax the colonies....The stamp act....Congress assemble at New York....Violence in the great towns....Change of the administration....Stamp act repealed....Opposition to the mutiny act....Act imposing duties on tea, &c. resisted in America....The assembly of Massachussetts address letters to several members of the administration in England.... Petition to the king....Circular letters to the colonial assem- blies....Letter from the earl of Hillsborough....Assembly of Massachussetts dissolved....Seizure of the sloop Liberty ....A convention assembles at Faneuil Hall....Moderation of its proceedings.... Two British regiments arrive at Boston ....Resolutions of the house of burgesses of Virginia....The governor dissolves the assembly....The members form and sign a non-importation association....Measures generally taken against the importation of British manufactures.... General court again convened in Massachussetts....Its pro- ceedings....Is prorogued....Administration resolve on a re- peal of all the duties except that on tea....Circular letter of |