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The Writings of George Washington, Vol. I (1748-1757) [1889] The Online Library of Liberty A Project Of Liberty Fund, Inc. George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757) [1889] The Online Library Of Liberty This E-Book (PDF format) is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, non-profit, educational foundation established in 1960 to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. 2010 was the 50th anniversary year of the founding of Liberty Fund. It is part of the Online Library of Liberty web site http://oll.libertyfund.org, which was established in 2004 in order to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. To find out more about the author or title, to use the site's powerful search engine, to see other titles in other formats (HTML, facsimile PDF), or to make use of the hundreds of essays, educational aids, and study guides, please visit the OLL web site. 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Author: George Washington Editor: Worthington Chauncey Ford About This Title: Vol. 1 covers the years 1748 to 1757 and includes some of his early journals and many letters. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2349 Online Library of Liberty: The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757) About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Copyright Information: The text is in the public domain. Fair Use Statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2349 Online Library of Liberty: The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757) Table Of Contents Preface. The Writings of George Washington. 1748. Journal of a Survey, 1748. 1 To Richard To Robin 1752. To Wm. Fauntleroy, Sr. 1753. Journal to the Ohio, 1753. 1754. To Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-governor of Virginia. To Richard Corbin. 1 To Governor Dinwiddie. Journal, March-april, 1754. To Horatio Sharpe, Governor of Maryland. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To the Half-king, &c. To Colonel Joshua Fry. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To His Brother. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. 1 To Governor Dinwiddie. To William Fairfax. 2 To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Colonel William Fitzhugh. 1755. To Robert Orme. To Robert Orme. To John Robinson. 1 To William Byrd. To William Fairfax. To William Fairfax. To John A. Washington. 1 To Major John Carlyle. To Mrs. Fairfax. To John A. Washington. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2349 Online Library of Liberty: The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757) To John A. Washington. To William Fairfax. To John A. Washington. To Robert Orme. To Governor Innes, At Fort Cumberland. 1 To Governor Dinwiddie. To John A. Washington. To Robert Jackson. To Augustine Washington. 1 To Mrs. Mary Washington. To Warner Lewis. To John Robinson. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Andrew Montour. To Governor Dinwiddie. Advertisement. 1 To Governor Dinwiddie. To Lieutenant-colonel Adam Stephen. To Lieutenant-colonel Adam Stephen. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Lieutenant-colonel Adam Stephen. 1756. To Robert Hunter Morris, Governor of Pennsylvania. Address to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment. 1 To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Lieutenant-colonel Stephen. To Governor Dinwiddie. Notes On His Journey to Boston. Extracts From the Pennsylvania Gazette. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Morris. To John Robinson. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To John Robinson. To John Robinson. To Governor Dinwiddie. Memms. Respect’g the Militia, April and May, 1756. 1 To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Captain Waggener. Instructions For Captain Peter Hog. To Captain Stewart. To Governor Dinwiddie. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2349 Online Library of Liberty: The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757) To John Robinson. To Captain Waggener. To Colonel Stephen. To Governor Dinwiddie. Address to His Command. To Lord Fairfax. 2 To Colonel Stephen. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Major David Lewis. 1 To Lieutenant-colonel Stephen. Council of War On Fort Cumberland. Remarks On the Council of War. Location of the Forts. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To John Robinson. To the Speaker of the House of Burgesses. To the Worshipful the Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses. the Address of the Officers of the Virginia Regiment. 1757. To Governor Dinwiddie. To the Earl of Loudoun. To Richard Washington, Merchant, London. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To John Robinson, Speaker of the House of Burgesses. To John Robinson. To Colonel Stanwix. 1 To Governor Dinwiddie. To Colonel Stanwix. To Colonel Stanwix. To Colonel Stanwix. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Colonel Stanwix. To Governor Sharpe. General Instructions to All the Captains of Companies. To Colonel Stanwix. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Captain William Peachy. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2349 Online Library of Liberty: The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757) To Governor Dinwiddie. To Mrs. Mary Washington. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Colonel Stanwix. To Governor Dinwiddie. To Governor Dinwiddie. To John Robinson, Speaker of the House of Burgesses. To Governor Dinwiddie. Of this Letter-press Edition 750 Copies have been Printed for Sale No. February, 1889 Press of G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 7 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2349 Online Library of Liberty: The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757) [Back to Table of Contents] PREFACE. It would be impossible to approach a collection of the Writings of Washington without taking some notice of the labors of Mr. Jared Sparks, the earnest, conscientious, and, it must be added, often injudicious pioneer in that great task. It is just to pay first a high tribute to his indefatigable industry in gathering the material, his wide acquaintance with the sources of history of the time, and his extensive and generally accurate knowledge of the men engaged in and the affairs connected with the troublous period of the nation’s birth, with the crucial contest for a nation’s existence. He worked with imperfect instruments, much of almost vital importance to the truth escaped his attention, while family pride and individual selfishness shut him off from manuscript records that would in his hands have added greatly to the value and rounded out more completely the interest of his work. It is fitting that due acknowledgment should be made of the great debt that Americans owe to his efforts, and no one is in a better position to recognize the debt thus due than the writer, who has passed over much of the same territory, encountered the same difficulties, and through experience been brought to a full realization of the greatness of the task accomplished by Mr. Sparks. No small part of the results of his labors has been embodied in these volumes. In spite, however, of all that can be said in praise of Mr. Sparks’ work, it must be admitted that his zeal led him into a serious error of judgment, so common to hero- worshippers, not only doing his own reputation, as an editor, an injury, but, what is of greater moment, conveying a distorted idea of Washington’s personal character and abilities—an idea that was rapidly developed into a cult, from which it is still difficult to break away, and in which it is dangerous to express unbelief. Finding that Washington had, at a late period of his life, carefully corrected some of his earlier letters, erasing and pruning liberally, and altering the arrangement of sentences and choice of words, wherever his more mature experience pointed out the need, Mr. Sparks took the same liberty with the rest of the letters and messages, and produced what is perhaps a more uniform work than could otherwise be obtained, but one that is singularly colorless when examined to discover the individuality of the writer. Not only did the editor omit sentences, words, proper names, and even paragraphs without notice to the reader, but he materially altered the sense and application of important portions of the letters.
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