. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . wing record, in the handwritingof the father of that Patriot: George Washington, son to Augustine and Mary his wife,was born y* 11th day of February, 1731-2, about ten in themorning, and was baptized the 3d of April following; Whiting and Captain Christopher Brooks, godfathers,and Mrs. Mildred Gregory godmother. Almost three hundred years ago Pope Gregory the Thir- 34 MOUNT VERNON teenth ordained tliat ten days should be added to the tally ofall past time since the birth of Jes
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . wing record, in the handwritingof the father of that Patriot: George Washington, son to Augustine and Mary his wife,was born y* 11th day of February, 1731-2, about ten in themorning, and was baptized the 3d of April following; Whiting and Captain Christopher Brooks, godfathers,and Mrs. Mildred Gregory godmother. Almost three hundred years ago Pope Gregory the Thir- 34 MOUNT VERNON teenth ordained tliat ten days should be added to the tally ofall past time since the birth of Jesus, to make up some frac-tional deficiencies in the calendar; and twenty years after theabove record was made, the British government ordered theGregorian calendar, or new style, as it was called, to beadopted. Tlie deficiency was then eleven days, and thesewere added. So we date the birth of Washington, and cele-brate its anniversary, on the twenty-second instead of theeleventh of February. Washingtons birth-place was a four-roomed house, with achimney at each end, perfectly plain outside and in. The. DUTCH TILE.—HALF THE SIZE OF THE ORIGINAL. only approach to ornament w^as a Dutch-tiled the best room, covered with rude pictures of Scripturalscenes; but around the mansion there were thrift and abun-dance. George was the eldest of his mothers six children. AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 35 and only his infant years were passed under the roof where hefirst saw the light; for fire destroyed the house, and his fatherremoved to an estate in Stafford county, near Tredericksburg,and dwelt in an equally plain mansion, pleasantly seated nearthe north bank of the Eappahannock Kiver.
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