Famous Presidents

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Excerpt from Famous Presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Grant Nearly three hundred years ago, in the year 1607, a ship sailed from England laden with people who were to form a settlement upon the lands of the London Land Company. This ship was to anchor in Roanoke Sound, but was driven by a terrible storm northward into Chesapeake Bay. Sailing along, the southern shores of this magnificent body of water, they at length reached the mouth of a broad, beautiful river which in honor of their king they named the James. After sailing about fifty miles up this river, they came to a peninsula, whose green meadows and forest lay fair and peaceful in the spring sunshine. Weary with their long sea voyage, the emigrants gladly landed, and here, upon the banks of the James River, was established the first English settlement in North America. From England to this settlement, fifty years later, came John Washington, and purchased a large tract of land about seventy-five miles north of Jamestown, on the Potomac River, in the County of Westmoreland. This land remained in the Washington family, and on February 22nd, 1732, in the old house built by John Washington, his great-grandson, George Washington, was born. 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.