Note 1 — Chapter I · The Youth of George Washington.
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“There is no doubt that the politics of the family determined the two brothers, John and Lawrence, to emigrate to Virginia; that colony being the favorite resort of the Cavaliers, during the government of Cromwell, as New England was the retreat of the Puritans, in the period which preceded the Commonwealth.”—Life of Washington, by Edward Everett, p. 24.