The Story of the Expedition of the Young Surveyors, George Washington And George William Fairfax, to Survey the Virginia Lands of Thomas, Sixth Lord Fairfax, 1747-1748
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CABIN OF LORD FAIRFAX. The surveys were commenced in the lower part of the valley, some distance above the junction of the Shenandoah with the Potomac, and extended for many miles along the former stream. Here and there only partial clearings had been made by adventurous squatters and pioneers, but even their rude tillage of the virgin soil had })roduced good crops of grains, hemp, and tobacco. The extracts arejust as Washington hurriedly noted ihem down from day to day in his field book, and i...f his modes of expression and or- thography at that time are not up to the standard of the present day we feel sure that no sensible student will indulge in unkind criticism of them, as evidently they were not intended for the public eye. They are some what quaint in style, but thev give us fond glimjjses ofrthe great personage in his boyhood and make us for the time companions with him as he roughs it in the Virginia wilds. Tuesday, March 15th. We set out early, with intent to run round ye s\l land, but being taken in a rain, and it increasing very fast obliged us to return.
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