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" Item. I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia,... "
Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ... - Page 264
1888
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The Writings of George Washington: Life of Washington

George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...Potomac company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these...
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The Life of George Washington

Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 632 pages
...Potomac company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it; and, until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these...
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The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence ..., Volume 11

George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 596 pages
...Potomac Company (under the aforesaid acts of the legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a university to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these...
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The Life of George Washington

Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 666 pages
...Potomac company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these...
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The Life of George Washington

Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1845 - 646 pages
...Potomac company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...auspices of the general government, if that government shonld incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such seminary is established, and...
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Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, President of ...

George Washington - Agriculture - 1847 - 220 pages
...Potomac Company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these...
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Catalogue of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia

Columbian College in the District of Columbia - 1919 - 348 pages
...Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, * * * * *_»> Washington's legacy never became effective. Congress, because of varying opinions as...
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The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 406 pages
...Potomac Company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these...
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Chronicle of the conquest of Granada

Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...Potomac Company (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia), towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these...
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Manual of public libraries, institutions and societies in the ..., Volume 12

William Jones Rhees - 1859 - 728 pages
...following bequest : ' I give the 50 shares which I hold in the Potomac Company, towards the endowment of a university, to be established within the limits of...Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it.' Even Mr. Jefferson, in his message of December 2d, 1806, urges upon Congress...
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