lore Mississippi river, by Frontenac, governor of New France, 1672;
explored Fox, Wisconsin, Mississippi and Illinois rivers, 1673; died
May, 1700.

MARQUETTE, JACQUES. Born at Laon, France, 1637; accompanied Joliet in
1673; died near Lake Michigan, May 18, 1675.

BRADFORD, WILLIAM. Born at Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, 1590;
governor of Plymouth colony, 1621-1657 (except in 1633-1634, 1636, 1638,
1644); died at Plymouth, Massachusetts, May 9, 1657.

WILLIAMS, ROGER. Born in Wales about 1600; reached Massachusetts, 1631;
pastor at Plymouth and Salem, 1631-1635; ordered to leave colony and
fled from Salem, January, 1636; founded Providence, June, 1636; went to
England and obtained charter for Rhode Island colony, 1644; president of
colony until death, April, 1684.

STUYVESANT, PETER. Born in Holland, 1602; served in West Indies, for a
time governor of Curacao, and returned to Holland in 1644; appointed
director-general of New Netherlands, 1646; reached New Amsterdam, 1647;
surrendered colony to the English, September, 1664; died at New York,
August, 1682.

PENN, WILLIAM. Born at London, October 14, 1644; became preacher of
Friends, 1668; part proprietor of West Jersey, 1675; received grant of
Pennsylvania, 1681; founded Philadelphia, 1682; returned to England,
1684; deprived of government of colony on charge of treason, 1692, but
restored to it in 1694; visited Pennsylvania, 1699-1701; died at
Ruscombe, Berks, England, July 30, 1718.

OGLETHORPE, JAMES EDWARD. Born at London, December 21, 1696; projected
colony of Georgia for insolvent debtors and persecuted Protestants, and
conducted expedition for its settlement, 1733; returned to England,
1743; died at Cranham Hall, Essex, England, 1785.

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CHAPTER III

WASHINGTON TO LINCOLN

Near the left bank of the Potomac river, in the northwestern
part of Westmoreland county, Virginia, there stood, in the year 1732, a
little cabin, where lived a planter by the name of Augustine Washington.
It was a lonely spot, for the nearest neighbor was miles away, but the
little family, consisting of father, mother, and two boys, Lawrence and
Augustine, were kept busy enough wresting a living from the soil. Here,
on the twenty-second day of February, a third son was born, and in due
time christened George.

Just a century had elapsed since John Smith had died in London, but in
that time the colony which he had founded and whic