The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . Burgessesof Virginia, and served inthat position until the con-vention at Williamsburg in1773. In 1774 he was sentas a delegate to the Conti-nental Congress at Phila-delphia, and in 1775 waschosen Commander-in-Chief of the ContinentalArmy. He commanded thearmies throughout the warfor independence. On December 23, 1783,he resigned and retired toMount Vernon, his home.In 1787 he was sent as adelegate to the national convention which framed the Constitu-tion, and was chosen president of that body. He was unani-mously elected President o
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The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . Burgessesof Virginia, and served inthat position until the con-vention at Williamsburg in1773. In 1774 he was sentas a delegate to the Conti-nental Congress at Phila-delphia, and in 1775 waschosen Commander-in-Chief of the ContinentalArmy. He commanded thearmies throughout the warfor independence. On December 23, 1783, he resigned and retired toMount Vernon, his home.In 1787 he was sent as adelegate to the national convention which framed the Constitu-tion, and was chosen president of that body. He was unani-mously elected President of the United States, and inauguratedApril 30, 1789. He was unanimously re-elected in 1793 andretired March 4, 1797. In July, 1798, he was appointed Lieu-tenant General, but had no occasion to serve as such. He wasa Free Mason of high rank. On December 11, 1799, he contracted a severe illness fromexposure. His physician resorted to bleeding to relieve him, and on December 14 he died at his home at Mount Vernon, Va.His name is on every State map in the Union.. CHAPTER IV. THE PIONEERS OF TEXAS. The following list of county names by no means representsthis large class of early Texans, as will be shown from thevarious sketches preceding and following. The list will showthe character of their struggle with the Indians from 1823 to1881, when the savages finally left the State. There is no more comprehensive characterization than thefollowing in Theodore Roosevelts Winning of the West: The warlike borderers who thronged across the Alleghanies, the restless and reckless hunters, the hard, dogged, frontierfarmers, by dint of grim tenacity, overcame and displaced In-dians, French, and Spaniards alike, exactly as fourteen hun-dred years before Saxon and Angle overcame and displacedthe Cyrmic and Gaelic Celts. They warred and settled from the high hill-valleys of theFrench Broad and the Upper Cumberland to the half tropicalbasin of the Rio Grande, and to where the Golden Gate letsthrough the