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| Title: | Excerpt from George Washington's Will |
| Author: | Washington, George |
| Date: | 07/09/1799 |
Page 6 of George Washington's Will
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Bibliographic Metadata
| Author: | Washington, George |
| Title: | Excerpt from George Washington's Will |
| Date: | 07/09/1799 |
| Archive: | Special Collections, University of Virginia |
| Collection name: | The Papers of George Washington: Retirement series |
| Document location: | http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/index.html |
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| Description: | This excerpt is from the oft-cited portion of George Washington's will where he expresses his desires for the creation of a national university and bequeaths "the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company... towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia." |
| Subjects: | George Washington;; will;; Potomac Company;; District of Columbia;; bequeath;; national;; university |
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| Date converted: | 03/15/2006 |
| Person converting: | Meagan Hess |
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