Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . WASHINGTON S BIRTH-PLACE. On the spot where Washington was born, the late GeorgeWashington Parke Custis, a grandson of Mrs. Washington,placed a piece of freestone in 1S15, with the simple inscrip-tion : IIeee, ON TUE llxn OF Feeeuakt, 17o2,Geoege Wasuington was boen We gathered together, says Mr. Custis, in a publishedaccount, the bricks of the ancient chimney that once formedthe hearth around Mhich Washington, in his infancy, hadplayed, and constructed a rude kind of pedestal, on which we AXD ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 23 reve
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . WASHINGTON S BIRTH-PLACE. On the spot where Washington was born, the late GeorgeWashington Parke Custis, a grandson of Mrs. Washington,placed a piece of freestone in 1S15, with the simple inscrip-tion : IIeee, ON TUE llxn OF Feeeuakt, 17o2,Geoege Wasuington was boen We gathered together, says Mr. Custis, in a publishedaccount, the bricks of the ancient chimney that once formedthe hearth around Mhich Washington, in his infancy, hadplayed, and constructed a rude kind of pedestal, on which we AXD ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 23 reverently placed the fikst stone, commending it to the re-spect and protection of the American people in general, andthe citizens of Westmoreland in particular. But such re-spect and protection have been withheld, and that stone isnow in fragments and overgrown with brambles. In this vicinity lived some of the Lees, always a distin-guished family in Virginia; and one of the most intimate ofWashingtons friends, in his earliest childliood, was EichardHenry Lee, afterward the
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