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Louis M Goldsborough, 2008 92.5% 245,800 6.5% 17,367, In 1839 Washington biographer Jared Sparks maintained that Washington's "...Farewell Address was printed and published with the laws by order of the legislatures as an evidence of the value they attached to its political precepts and of their affection for its author." in 1972 Washington scholar James Flexner referred to the Farewell Address as receiving as much acclaim as Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 2010 historian Ron Chernow reported the Farewell Address proved to be one of the most influential statements on Republicanism. 5 Other Washington properties In a 1778 letter to Lund Washington he made clear his desire "to get quit of Negroes" when discussing the exchange of slaves for land he wanted to buy the next year he stated his intention not to separate families as a result of "a change of masters." During the 1780s Washington privately expressed his support for gradual emancipation of slaves. Between 1783 and 1786 he gave moral support to a plan proposed by Lafayette to purchase land and free slaves to work on it but declined to participate in the experiment. Washington privately expressed support for emancipation to prominent Methodists Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury in 1785 but declined to sign their petition in personal correspondence the next year he made clear his desire to see the institution of slavery ended by a gradual legislative process a view that correlated with the mainstream antislavery literature published in the 1780s that Washington possessed, Patrick Henry Virginia 1 Yes Washington D.C. Business Directory For various reasons the census did not always include all of the slaves especially in the West California was admitted as a free state and reported no slaves However there were many slaves that were brought to work in the mines during the California Gold Rush. Some Californian communities openly tolerated slavery such as San Bernardino which was mostly made up of transplants from the neighboring slave territory of Utah. New Mexico Territory never reported any slaves on the census yet sued the government for compensation for 600 slaves that were freed when congress outlawed slavery in the territory. Utah was actively trying to hide its slave population from Congress and did not report slaves in several communities. Additionally the census did not traditionally include Native Americans and hence did not include Native American slaves or black slaves owned by Native Americans There were hundreds of Native American slaves in California, Utah and New Mexico that were never recorded in the census.

. A new federal city was then constructed on the north bank of the Potomac to the east of Georgetown On September 9 1791 the three commissioners overseeing the capital's construction named the city in honor of President Washington the federal district was named Columbia (a feminine form of "Columbus") which was a poetic name for the United States commonly in use at that time. Congress held its first session in Washington on November 17 1800, Benjamin Franklin an early advocate of colonial unity was a foundational figure in defining the U.S ethos and exemplified the emerging nation's ideals. The Protestant Scottish highlanders who settled what is now Darien Georgia added a moral anti-slavery argument which became increasingly rare in the South in their 1739 "Petition of the Inhabitants of New Inverness" by 1750 Georgia authorized slavery in the colony because it had been unable to secure enough indentured servants as laborers as economic conditions in England began to improve in the first half of the 18th century workers had no reason to leave especially to face the risks in the colonies. Africans first came to the New World with Christopher Columbus in 1492 Juan Las Canaries was a crewman on Columbus' flagship the Santa Maria Not much longer after the first enslavement occurred in what would later be the United States in 1508 Ponce de Leon established the first settlement near present-day San Juan and began enslaving the indigenous Tainos in 1513 to supplement the dwindling Tainos population the first African slaves were imported to Puerto Rico, John Hancock Massachusetts 2 Yes Yes Main article: United States Capitol Police. Lt Col Washington holding night council at Fort Necessity Specializations 1830 30,261 29.7% Peyton Randolph as president of the Continental Congress presided over creation of the Continental Association! Main article: Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln. 16 Bibliography George Washington We reached Burrita about 5 pm many of the Louisiana volunteers were there a lawless drunken rabble They had driven away the inhabitants taken possession of their houses and were emulating each other in making beasts of themselves!