George Washington
He was born 1732 and he died in 1799.
George Washington seems today a figure larger than life itself.....almost as he was when he was a familiar person in the halls, homes, shops, and bars of 18th-century city Williamsburg.
On Duke of Gloucester Street, in the Raleigh Tavern's Apollo Room, or the Governor's Palace Gardens, his powerful frame and his nice attitude..his presence....drew to him the notice that wrote his place in the history of the city, the state, and the nation.
'His bones and joints are large, as are his hands and feet,' friend of Washington George Merce…
