The journal of Major George Washington; an account of his first official mission, made as emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the commandant of the French forces on the Ohio, October 1753-January 1754
Colonial Williamsburg; distributed by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
Date of Publication
[1959]
Physical Description
xi p., facsim: (28 p.),[31]-41 p. maps. 20 cm.
Notes
"Introduction and notes are by James R. Short and Thaddeus W. Tate, Jr."
"This facsimile...has been printed from the copy owned by Colonial Williamsburg."
Summary
In the early winter of 1752, George Washington marched into the Ohio River Valley to deliver a message to the French who had begun to build forts down the valley in direct violation of the peace between France and England. On this journey, Washington met a cadre of interesting characters including the Half-King and Christopher Gist. What happened was a tale of survival and hardship that served as the first early steps towards war that would erupt in 1754.
Pennsylvania furniture : including important works by Philadelphia cabinetmakers : American portraits, still-lifes and landscape paintings : Philadelphia & other American silver : Pennsylvania Dutch fraktur work : sgraffito and slipware ... part one, from the estate of the late Arthur J. Sussel : public auction sale, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 23, 24 and 25 ... [at] Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York
The private instructor, or, Mathematics simplified : comprising every thing necessary in arithmetic, book-keeping, conveyancing, mensuration, and guaging, to form and complete the man of business : the whole upon an improved plan not only adapted to private instruction, but also the use of schools
On flyleaf: Emma F. Musser, Silver Spring, Lanc. Co. Pa.
Summary
An 1836 effort to provide a complete course or reference in mathematics. The author proposes this book to educate a person for the world of business. The author was a resident of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Published also under title: A compendium of natural philosophy.
First ed. in 2 vols. was published in 1763.
The second volume contains an abridgment of The contemplation of nature by M. Bonnet and extracts from Duten's Enquiry into the origin of the discoveries attributed to the moderns.
