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Debating where the permanent Capital should be... Death of the President's mother...
Debating where the permanent Capital should be... Death of the President's mother...
Item # 703751
September 09, 1789
GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES, New York, Sept. 9, 1789
* Debate on Nation's capital location
* Mary Ball Washington death
* 1st president G.W.'s mother
Most of the front page is taken up with a: "Sketch of Proceedings of Congress in the House of Representatives..." with considerable debate on the Judicial Bill.
Half of page 2 (and some of page 3) are taken up with discussion in Congress headed: "Debate on the Subject of Foxing the Permanent Seat of Government" which offers some very insightful reading on how the discussions various on thoughts by region.
Page 3 has a very nice obituary report on the death of the President's mother. Datelined: "Fredericksburg, August 27" it begins: "On Tuesday, the 25th let. died in her house in this town, Mrs. Mary Washington, aged 82, the venerable mother of the illustrious President of the United States, after a long & painful indisposition, which she bore with uncommon patience..." with more.
The back page concludes with: "An Act for Settling the Accounts Between the United States and Individual States", signed in type by the President: George Washington.
Four pages, very nice condition.
AI notes: Mary Ball Washington (c. 1708–1789) was the mother of George Washington and a significant figure in early American colonial society, known for her strong will, frugality, and influence on her son’s character. Born into the prominent Ball family of Virginia, she married Augustine Washington in 1731 and managed the family’s plantations after his death in 1743, raising five children while overseeing land, enslaved labor, and finances in a male-dominated colonial world. Mary instilled in George values of discipline, self-reliance, and restraint, traits he later credited as foundational to his leadership. Though she lived modestly in her later years near Fredericksburg, Virginia, she declined public attention during the Revolutionary War, even as her son became a national symbol. Mary Ball Washington died on August 25, 1789, just months after George Washington’s inauguration as the first President of the United States, and is remembered as a formative influence behind one of the most consequential figures in American history.
Considered by many as the most significant newspaper of the 18th century, particularly during this, the formative year of the new federal government, as the Gazette was the mouthpiece of all matters political. Most pronouncements from Congress & the President were printed first in this newspaper.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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