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Early Occurrence of the name of Washington.

--A writer in the Historical Magazine for the current month gives an early — perhaps the earliest — authentic notice of the land in England from which the name of Washington is derived. In the first volume of the "Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon," published in illustration of mediÆval British History, under the direction of the Master of the Rolls, by the British Government, at page 337, we find a grant of land from King Edgar, the Anglo-Saxon King, to "Athelunold Washingatune." The document bears date A. D. 963, about nine centuries ago.

The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 23, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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