Dictionary of American Biography, Including Men of the Time: Containing Nearly Ten Thousand Notices of Persons of Both Sexes, of Native and Foreign Birth, who Have Been Remarkable, Or Prominently Connected with the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Politics, Or History of the American Continent. Giving Also the Pronunciation of Many of the Foreign and Peculiar American Names, a Key to the Assumed Names of Writers, and a Supplement, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 245 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
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Page 172 - Md., so as to authorize him to vote, as he did, for the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers. He served with unwearied industry on many of the important committees of Congress. In 1 783, he was the agent of Md. in Eng., to reclaim a large sum of money intrusted to the Bank of Eng., $650,000 of which was subsequently paid over to the State.
Page 140 - Dartm. Coll. 1777. Ord. at Thetford, Jan. 19, 1779, over a church of 16 members, he continued his pastorate more than half a century. He published several sermons and discourses, and " Essays on Some of the First Principles of Metaphysics, Ethics, and Theology,