. Westmoreland County, Virginia : parts I and II : a short chapter and bright day in its history. of this por-trait of Judge Bushrod Washington, the task of preparing a briefsketch of his life to be used on this occasion has been assigned me,and I have consented to it, from a sense of filial duty and not fromany conceit of my special fitness to perform it. The difficulty that confronts a layman in an attempt to portraythe life of one whose reputation rests on professional achievementis so generally understood that I undertake it with much diffi-dence, trusting to your very indulgent judgment o
. Westmoreland County, Virginia : parts I and II : a short chapter and bright day in its history. of this por-trait of Judge Bushrod Washington, the task of preparing a briefsketch of his life to be used on this occasion has been assigned me,and I have consented to it, from a sense of filial duty and not fromany conceit of my special fitness to perform it. The difficulty that confronts a layman in an attempt to portraythe life of one whose reputation rests on professional achievementis so generally understood that I undertake it with much diffi-dence, trusting to your very indulgent judgment of my effort, andpromise to confine myself to a plain statement of unornamentedfact, much of which I have taken from the writings of Judge Bin-ney, Judge Hopkinson and Judge Story, who knew Judge Wash-ington intimately, having been closely associated with him duringthe thirty-one years he sat on the bench, and esteemed his characterfit subject for their literary efforts. Born at Bushfield. near the mouth of Nomini, in this county,on the 5th of June. 1762, Bushrod Washington was the oldest son.
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