 | William Spohn Baker - 1898 - 428 pages
...University of Lexington ; and the fifty shares of the Potomac Company " towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of...the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the Oeneral Government." MONDAY, OCTOBER 81. At Mount Vernon : " October 31. — A Captain [Richard] Fullerton... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 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... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - United States - 1900 - 470 pages
...to accumulate for some charitable purpose. In his will the object was stated as "the endowment of a university to be established within the limits of...Columbia, under the auspices of the general government." Attempts have been made at various times looking to the fulfillment of Washington's wish. and intelligently.... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - University extension - 1901 - 118 pages
...bequeath, in perpetuity, the 50 shares which I hold in the Potomac Company * * * toward the endowment of a university, to be established within the limits of...Government should incline to extend a favoring hand toward it. The amount of Washington's bequest has been computed at compound interest from his death... | |
 | Eugene Parsons - 1903 - 192 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... | |
 | 1912 - 334 pages
...testament : " I give the fifty 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." President Jefferson having views differing from those of Washington as... | |
 | 1906 - 524 pages
...however, that the fifty shares in the Potomac Company which he bequeathed toward the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, and which was appraised after his death at five thousand pounds sterling, or almost thirty thousand... | |
 | Virgil McClure Harris - Wills - 1911 - 496 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. "ITEM. The hundred Shares which I hold in the James River Company, I have... | |
 | Dana Webster Bartlett - Irrigation - 1911 - 630 pages
...Potomac Company (under the aforesaid acts of the legislature of Virginia ) toward 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. (Signed July 9, 1790. )" Those who did not believe in a centralized government... | |
 | George Washington - 1911 - 84 pages
...Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Vir-ginia) towards the endowment of a University " to be established within the limits of...Government, if that Government should incline to ex-tend a fostering hand towards it, —and until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these... | |
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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,... 
