George Washington's Moral Leadership
Excerpts from Marvin Olasky's The American Leadership Tradition: Moral Vision from Washington to Clinton (Simon 7 Schuster Inc.: New York, 1999): "[Washington's] talk and reports were full of...
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From LayHistorian Washington was cetainly a christian but I don't think he would have approved of the political right using religeon as justification for thier social theories. Yes i know it's...
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Here is what Washington included concerning religion in his farewell adress: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports....
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"There is something touching in the way [George] Washington always lamented his want of qualifications and called on God to help, whether it was a nomination as Commander in Chief of the Army, as...
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George Washington lived in what was Old Frederick Co. VA. An area that was settled by Quakers. ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY VA. Was also a Quaker area on the other side of the state where we have George...
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JoJoVern My folks, the Everitt family, were in Isle of Wight County from about 1690 forward; Simon Everitt married Ann Turner about 1696. Ann Turner's father, John Turner, was born in Charles City, Va...
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Mary Tomkins was publicly wipped for being a Quaker. This was as close as these Quaker records show to the names listed. Will keep on looking. Wanted to Attach Quaker history of area, to show their...
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Jack, One test I use is if they move from one nonconformist area to another, it is a fair bet they were nonconformists. It would be somewhat like a Catholic living in Salt Lake City in the late...
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We can gain insight into a person by looking at their ancestors and the conditions they lived in. George Washington /President/ Birth: 11 Feb 1731/32 in Pope's Creek, Westmoreland Co, VA. Death: 14...
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Reference to Rev. John Coode's son William Coode is found in Westmoreland County. --p. 170a-171. Will of Joseph HARDWICK of Nomony in the parish of Cople in the County of Westmoreland. 31 Aug 1698....
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and was variously referred to in the old provincial records before the erection of Somerset as "the Eastern Shore below the Choptank ", "the Eastern Shore newly seated and adjacent to Virginia ",...
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Honorable Sir William Berkeley in most obscene and filthy language, saying he was a loggerhead and a puppy to call him a fool and that he had f**ked him out of twenty pounds sterling and that he would...
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Francis Wright, Marriage 1 Ann Washington, daughter of John, b: 1660 in Westmoreland VA . Mrs. Henry (Jane)Boatman's grandmother was Jane Gerrard, b: ABT. 1649 in Hadleigh, Suffolk Co. ,England. 1699...
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During the early part of the French and Indian War, from the defeat of Braddock near the site of Pittsburgh in 1755 till the capture by the English of Fort Duquesne in 1758 and of Quebec in 1759,...
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