Excerpt from An Account of the Manuscript Papers of George Washington, Which Were Left by Him at Mount Vernon: With a Plan for Their Publication This period will occupy a comparatively small portion of the work yet it will by no means he the least valuable. When it is recollected, that Washington was then a mere youth, engaged in hazardous enterprises, to which he was led by his native ardor and spirit; that, from the age of twentytwo to twentyseven, he held a very responsible command over the united forces of the largest colony on the continent, and was required to defend a dangerous frontier, where he was exposed to the perpetual incur sions of the French and Indians; that he acquitted himself hon orably on all occasions, and received the public thanks of his government, and the unanimous applause of his fellow cit izens, for his good conduct; when these circumstances are brought to mind, the conviction cannot be resisted, that an ac count of such a train of occurrences, written by his own hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.