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q8 American Revolution.

counsellor their enemy : then they exhorted one another to be of good courage.

12. And the great Sanhedrim of the peo- ple, consulted together where they should iind a man that would be able to go out be- fore the host of Columbia, and order the battle for them.

13. And they chose George^ whos sur- name was Washington^ he was from the south country, and had a goodly inheritance on Mount Vernon, and flocks and herds in. a- bundance.

14. He was a manor war from his youth, was beloved of the people, and his bowels yearned towards them in the day of their ca- lamity 1 he was also one of the princes of the provinces, and sat in the Sanhedrim of the people, who bore the burthen in the heat of the day.

15. And there were other captains appoint- ed under him; and the names of the captains were these, JrUmas, Cbarlcsy Phil