to trace between the two.

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* Weems speaks of six children only, naming all the sons
and one of the daughters. Of her, he frankly says, "I have never heard
what became; but for his four brothers, I am happy to state,
that though not formidable as soldiers, they were very amiable as citizens."
James tells us of two daughters, not naming either,
but describing them as "grandmothers of the families of the Mitchells,
of Georgetown, and of the Dwights, formerly of the same place,
but now of St. Stephen's parish." Such particularity might be presumed
to settle the question.
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The infancy of Marion was unpromising. At birth he was puny and diminutive
in a remarkable degree. Weems, in his peculiar fashion, writes,
"I have it from good authority, that this great soldier, at his birth,
was not larger than a New England lobster, and might easily enough
have been put into a quart pot." It was certainly as little supposed
that he should ever live to manhood, as that he should then become a hero.
But, by the time that he had reached his twelfth year,
his constitution underwent a change. His health became good.
The bracing exercises and hardy employments of country life
invigorated his frame, and with this improvement brought with it
a rare increase of energy. He grew restless and impatient.
The tendency of his mind, which was so largely developed
in the partisan exercises of after years, now began to exhibit itself.
Under this impulse he conceived a dislike to the staid and monotonous
habits of rural life, and resolved upon seafaring as a vocation.
Such, it may be remarked, was also the early passion of Washington;