After the Dissolution the village became an estate of the Lawrence family, an ancestor of whom married the heiress of a branch of the Washington family, from another branch of which descended George Washington.
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One of Reinagle's admirers was American President George Washington.
Another prominent farming family, that of Ball, is erroneously said to be that of George Washington's mother, Mary Ball Washington.
Binfield House, similar in appearance to Horace Warpole's Strawberry Hill House near Twickenham (Grade II listed) was built in 1776 and for nearly 150 years was rented out to a number of tenants including the well known historian Catharina Macaulay Graham whose work was greatly admired by the 1st American President George Washington, and in 1788 she travelled to America to visit him.
George Washington was a sort of high priest, and the documents of the Founding Fathers have been treated as almost sacred texts.
The entire length of Route 99 is also known as the George Washington Memorial Highway.
As a surveyor, George Washington had mapped out several potential routes, and in 1785, he been an early investor in a canal venture.
Lawrence was an ancestor of the first American President, George Washington, and the joint arms of the two families - the famous stars and stripes of Washington's signet ring and the American flag - appear in memorials at Steeple and Affpuddle.
By the middle of his second term, much criticism of Roosevelt centered on fears that he was heading toward a dictatorship, by attempting to seize control of the Supreme Court in the Court-packing incident of 1937, attempting to eliminate dissent within the Democratic party in the South during the 1938 elections, and by breaking the tradition established by George Washington of not seeking a third term when he again ran for re-election in 1940.
The neighborhood was busy and wealthy, and she remembered seeing famous neighbors including George Washington stroll along the street.
It was often sung at union rallies and state fairs and over the years acquired verses not written by Blakeslee, such as a Lincoln verse (the original song included only four verses: Adam, Jesus, Washington, and Roosevelt).
Dobson also appealed strongly to the patriotic pride of the newly independent Americans; he used only American materials and craftspeople and his announcement of the first "American" encyclopedia was timed to agree with George Washington's selection as the first President under the new Constitution.
Young George Washington, already a Virginia vestryman, was guided by Gist when he came west to warn the French to withdraw from this region claimed by the British.
Widely respected for his integrity and intelligence, L'Hommedieu represented the New York City Chamber of Commerce on discussions related to a lighthouse at Montauk Point, a federal project on which he advised President George Washington.
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Although George Washington had promised Continental aid to the refugees, L'Hommedieu spent his own money to help support them.
Being on general Rochambeau's staff for the duration of the war, Chastellux acted as the principal liaison officer between the French commander in chief and George Washington.
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Thereafter, Chastellux remained a personal friend of George Washington for life.
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Chastellux described George Washington as an effective yet profoundly human leader in wartime.
Items in the collection include a rifle reputedly once owned by George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt's "Big Stick" hunting rifle, and items once owned by "Buffalo Bill" Cody and the outlaw Jesse James.
In 1751, leader of the American Revolution and first president of the United States, George Washington, stayed at the district's Bush Hill section for six weeks with his sick brother.
At the beginning of the French and Indian War, young George Washington is said to have let Indian chief Tanaghrisson seal their fresh alliance by smashing the skull of Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, a wounded French officer they just took as prisoner, then washing his hands in the man's brain.
On 12 February 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized funding for three ballistic missile submarines.
The episode makes one minor historical error: footage of the Hessians' Christmas celebration depicts soldiers dancing to "Silent Night", at least forty years before the carol was written.
George Washington's Socks is a children's story by Elvira Woodruff that tells the story of five children who find a "mysterious wooden rowboat" that takes them "backward in time, to the time of George Washington," giving them the opportunity to learn about the American Revolution.
In 1797, a station authorized by George Washington was established at this point on the Cape, with a wood lighthouse to warn ships about the dangerous coastline between Cape Ann and Nantucket.
Signed project which Scott created a silk jacquard with a motif of money scattered around with his own likeness replacing that of George Washington.
On the night of December 25–26, 1776 General George Washington crossed the Delaware River with his troops on the way to Trenton, New Jersey.
As Governor, Yates sat for a portrait by John Vanderlyn, famed for his rendition of such eminent historical figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, James Monroe, George Clinton, Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor.
The king Charles III of Spain Juan de Miralles had sent to watch the new American administration of George Washington in the then capital of Philadelphia.
Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns) (1810, Arlington, VT — 1885, Brooklyn, NY ) was an American painter best known for his five part Washington Series (1847–1856).
George Washington was sent by British to Fort Le Boeuf to deliver a message to the French that demanded that they leave the Ohio Country.
The success of the legion is owed mostly to Major General Anthony Wayne, but also to George Washington and Henry Knox.
The highway helped General George Washington's troops during the American Revolutionary War and was also the main supply route to the hamlets of Payne's Corners (now Amenia), Washiac (now Wassaic) and Dover Plains.
However, John Newton's heroics are said to be a product of Parson Weems, who also fictionalized the story of George Washington and the cherry tree.
A best known story is George Washington throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River.
1974, during which time historically important documents were found in building such as two volumes of early 19th-century registrations of free blacks, as well as the wills of George and Martha Washington.
In September 1853, Dickson platted the village as Mount Vernon, after Mount Vernon, Virginia, the home of the first U.S. President, George Washington.
George Washington, the first U.S. president was against the establishment of political parties in most circumstances and therefore belonged to no party.
Adelheid and Augustus had two daughters; Amalia, who was born in 1818 an later married Prince Otto of Bavaria, the elected King of Greece, and thus became Queen consort of Greece; and Frederica, who was born in 1820 and later married Maximilian Emanuel von Washington, the son of Jakob von Washington, a distant relative of the first President of the United States George Washington.
In 1986, he was asked by The White House to paint the official portrait of George Washington to commemorate the Bicentennial Celebration of the U.S. Constitution.
They create a false bust of George Washington made of gold that fools Fat Henry and are able to claim the $20,000, which Sam gratefully splits with his partners.
Only one episode is known to exist, from February 19, 1954 (one commercial mentions the upcoming weekend and celebrating George Washington's birthday with Coke in-a-bottle, showing a boy and girl doing so in Colonial attire and powdered wigs).
Directed by Stu Segall, Spirit of Seventy Sex is a tongue-in-cheek look at the sex lives of the Founding Fathers, including George Washington (and his wife Martha, who is played by Haven), Benjamin Franklin and Captain John Smith (Holmes).
Rygier made busts of his wife and sister; of George Washington (1875); of the poet Teofil Lenartowicz (exhibited at Rome in 1883); of the doctor Levitoni, philosopher of Warsaw; of Leopold Kronenberg (1878, once placed on a pedestal in the rail station to Warsaw); and the writer Kraszetcski.
At the beginning of each chapter Lusane provides a narrative of an African-American's "White House Story" ranging from an escaped slave once belonging to George Washington to the First Lady Michelle Obama.
The elections resulted in two candidates in support of Washington's administration and three candidates opposed to his policies.
George Washington Winsterhammerman, a descendant of George Washington, is a Level-3 "tunt" employee at the Jeffers Corporation, and is suffering from overeating and impotence as a result of alienation common in this society.
In the early years of the Warren Tavern it was frequented by many national heroes such as Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.
Warton is the birthplace of the medieval ancestors of George Washington, the first popularly elected President of the United States.
Born in Austin, Texas, he was a distant cousin of George Washington, and his grandfather had been a very successful cattle rancher.
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The season however ended on a very sad note after George Washington was put down after breaking down in the Breeders Cup Classic.
In 1785 he went to Pennsylvania and met and debated with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Jump produced a cartoon of his "Funeral" with Norton as the Pope performing the ceremony and Freddy Coombs, another San Francisco eccentric who claimed to be the reincarnation of George Washington, digging the grave.
Commanded by Major Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and handpicked by George Washington for the mission, Champe "defected" to the British side and came very close to succeeding, but at the last moment, Arnold changed plans and the whole endeavor had to be called off.
Charles Cecil Wall (born c. 1903 – May 1, 1995) was an American self-taught historian and preservationist, who spent nearly 40 years as resident director of George Washington's estate at Mount Vernon on the banks of the Potomac River, where he endeavored to keep the home and its surroundings in much the same state that it existed when the First President resided there.
His current editorial interest with regard to Wikipedia centers on overseeing his students contributions to Wikipedia, George Washington's bow to civil authority in 1783, Maryland place names (such as Accident, Maryland), Maryland related themes such as the articles on Civil War era including Cipriano Ferrandini, and major national law cases that had their origins in Maryland such as Barron v. Baltimore.
The first recorded celebration of the Gaspee Affair was in 1774 near Williamsburg, Virginia where George Washington himself related in his diary that he spent 3s.9d.
Despite his stated desire to retire from public service, Washington would later accept a commission from President John Adams, although Adams was largely forced into providing the commission by members of the Federalist Party, as the Senior Officer of a Provisional Army formed to defend the nation against a possible invasion by French forces during the Quasi-War.
In the United States, his creations can be found in Richmond, Virginia (monument of George Washington), and in Washington DC (figure of "America" at the Capitol building).
Mistake: In the episode "Washington Story", Stan Francis played a young George Washington but in the end credits, he is named as Benjamin Franklin (this might be a mistake limited to the home video edit taking the end credits from a different episode).
On March 21, 1791 Henry Bogart was appointed by George Washington to the post of Inspector of the revenue of the Port of Albany.
Warren was a correspondent and adviser to many political leaders of the Revolutionary period, including Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and especially John Adams, who became her literary mentor in the years leading to the Revolution.
He has recorded the Sonatas of Alexander Reinagle (teacher of George Washington's children) for the Musical Heritage Society and the Concerto for Piano and Winds by Igor Stravinsky for Golden Crest Records.
Historical figures such as George Washington and Daniel Boone make an appearance alongside Robert Jewett and his family.
Her first solo exhibition, “Portraits from the Dingle Library”, combined images of her mother, Cram, with portraits of iconic figures like George Washington, Queen Elizabeth II and George Foreman.
Promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Royal Corps of Engineers, Duportail was secretly sent to America in March 1777 to serve in Washington's Continental Army under an agreement between Benjamin Franklin and the government of King Louis XVI of France.
Revolutionary leaders such as George Washington, the Marquis de La Fayette, and Baron von Steuben are said to have been guests in the house.
Her early works included references to national heroes (George Washington, John F. Kennedy), boxers, burlesque dancers, business men, comic book characters, fashion models, and Keane waifs.
General George Washington was impressed with the Maryland regulars (the "Maryland Line") who fought in the Continental Army and, according to one tradition, this led him to bestow the name "Old Line State" on Maryland.
Between September 14 and October 20, 1776, General George Washington used the mansion as his temporary headquarters after he and his army were forced to evacuate Brooklyn Heights following their loss to the British Army under the command of General William Howe in the Battle of Long Island.
The name derives from the Mount Vernon home of George Washington; the original Washington Monument, a massive pillar commenced in 1815 to commemorate the first president of the United States, is the defining feature of the neighborhood.
In 1768, George Washington owned and raced a Narragansett Pacer, while in 1772, Edmund Burke asked an American friend for a pair.
It was the home of Mason Locke Weems (1759 – 1825), the first biographer of George Washington and the creator of the cherry tree story ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet").
When Taft died in 1936, leaving much of the Heald Square Monument – a sculpture group of George Washington, Robert Morris and Haym Salomon – undone, she was one of several sculptors who were commissioned to finish the piece (1941).
John McCurdy (b.1724), whose home was the resting place for George Washington on April 10, 1776 while traveling to New York City to take on the British Army and Navy (source: Papers of George Washington, Connecticut State Library); grandfather of Connecticut Supreme Court judge Charles McCurdy
Banknotes are common media for folding as the subject in the center of the banknote, like George Washington, can make a striking appearance on the finished model.
He knew the history of Western countries and was using Noah, the history of Babylonia, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Napoleon and George Washington as poem themes.
It was Turks and Caicos salt that George Washington needed to preserve the food for his army during the American Revolutionary War and that the Canadian and American fishing fleets used to salt down their catches.
Daffy is ready to call it quits (saying "What I'd give for a can of spinach now", a direct reference to Popeye whose theatrical cartoons are now owned by WB), but is encouraged by the ghosts of his 'ancestors' — ducks who landed on Plymouth Rock, who encamped at Valley Forge with George Washington, who explored with Daniel Boone, who sailed with John Paul Jones, and who stood in for Abraham Lincoln.
He was elected the first member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Frederick County, having held the seat that would later be occupied by first U.S. President George Washington.
On December 11, 1779, General George Washington ordered Colonel Bedel to raise another regiment at Coos to help Colonel Moses Hazen and general Jacob Bayley in the construction of a possible invasion route to Canada and to conduct an investigation of misconduct and fraud against the Continental Army Quartermaster at Coos, New Hampshire.
The Mansion and the surrounding Park were owned by a succession of wealthly families, including ancestors of George Washington.
In an alternative history, the United States lost the American Revolutionary War, George Washington was shot as a traitor, and America is still, in 1973, under the control of the British Empire.
A bronze equestrian statue, sculpted by Clark Mills and depicting George Washington riding his horse during the Battle of Princeton, was installed in the center of the circle on February 22, 1860.
"The items included a story of Ntsikana (the Xhosa prophet), an article on circumcision among the Xhosa, a story of George Washington ...accounts of Christian work in lands beyond Africa, stories of African converts to Christianity and an appeal to Christian parents about the training of their children" (Ngcongco).
In the fourth segment, George Washington gets a letter in the mailbox, opens it and exclaims: "Gadzooks! I've been drafted!"
Camp Sandy Beach campsites are named after famous Americans in history and include the following: Abe Lincoln, Audubon, Backwoods, Davy Crockett, Donald H. Cady, George Washington, Jim Bridger, Jim Bowie, James West, John Glenn, Kit Carson, Lewis & Clark, Neil Armstrong, Norman Rockwell, Richard Byrd, Silver Buffalo, and Teddy Roosevelt.
Through her mother Zoe Akins was related to prominent figures like George Washington and Duff Green.