Excerpt from The Heart of Washington: An Intimate Study of the Father of His Country From the Personal Human Side They named the baby George. Lawrence and Augustine, or Austin, Captain Washington's sons by his first wife, were fourteen and twelve years older. They were soon sent back home, as the colonists called England, to school, to finish, as their father be fore them had done, in a boarding school at Appleby, near Whitehaven, England. This left Mary Washington to bring up her own little brood by themselves. Next after little George came Betty, then Samuel, John Augustine, and Charles followed in quick succession; and last of all, Baby Mildred, who died in fourteen months This was George Washington's first great sorrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.