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 INDEPENDENCE. BY JOHN MARSHALL. VOL. V. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY C. P. WAYNE. 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:.... 66 "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 Washington, from original papers bequeathed to him by his deceased "Relative, and now in possession of the Author. To which is prefixed, 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.” 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 entituled "An act Supplementary to an Act 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 extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the CONTENTS. After retiring to private life, general Washington devotes. his time to rural pursuits, to the duties of friendship, and to institutions of public utility... Resolves of congress and of the legislature of Virginia for erecting statues in honour of him... Recommends the opening and improving the inland navigation of the great rivers in Virginia...He declines accepting a donation made to him by his native state.. Establishment of the society of the Cincinnati, of which he is elected president...The causes which led to a Misunderstandings between Great Britain and the United States...Mr. Adams appointed to negotiate with the Bri- tish cabinet...Discontents of the Americans against the commercial regulations of Britain.. Rise of parties in the United States...The convention at Annapolis... Virginia appoints deputies to meet those of the other states at Phil- adelphia for the purpose of revising the federal system... G. Washington chosen one of them...Insurrection in Mas- sachussetts...Convention at Philadelphia...A form of gov. ernment for the United States is submitted to the respective states, which is ratified by eleven of them...Letters from Gen. Washington respecting the chief magistracy of the |