The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving

CHAPTER I.

BIRTH OF WASHINGTON.--HIS BOYHOOD.

The Washington family is of an ancient English stock, the genealogy of which has been traced up to the century immediately succeeding the Conquest. Among the knights and barons who served under the Count Palatine, Bishop of Durham, to whom William the Conqueror had granted that important See, was WILLIAM DE HERTBURN. At that period...