The Writings of George Washington, Vol. 2 of 12

Download or read book The Writings of George Washington, Vol. 2 of 12 written by Jared Sparks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Writings of George Washington, Vol. 2 of 12: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private; Selected and Published From the Original Manuscripts; With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations After he resigned his commission in the army, and retired to his plantation at Mount Vernon, he devoted himself for fifteen years almost exclusively to his private affairs. He was usually a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, but few traces remain of his public acts in that body. A list of the voters at his several elections, denoting the persons for whom they voted, has been preserved, from which it appears, that he was uniformly chosen by a large majority over all his competitors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.