...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 General Government, if that Government should incliue to extend a fostering hand towards it; and, until such seminary is established, and the funds...

...Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of...under the auspices of the General Government...." In congressional messages, including his very last, Washington had repeatedly made his wishes known....

...bequeath, in perpetuity, the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company toward the endowment of a university, to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, nnder the auspices of the general government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering...