The Chronicles of Georgetown, D. C

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Excerpt from The Chronicles of Georgetown, D. C: From 1751 to 1878What little knowledge I possess I have gleaned from the citizens of Georgetown, among whom I was born and reared, and what little property I enjoy I owe to their patronage. The older citizens of the town were well acquainted with the father of the Chronicler. - He was no general, he never com manded an army and slew thousands of men and gained a victory, neither was he the governor of a province, and starved the peasantry to feed an idle court, but a peaceable, quiet citizen, a store-keeper by occupation, and when he died. He left the Chronicler, then thirteen years of age, an heir to his good repu tatien.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.