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not be avoided, was, that the negro women 

 whom they had for cooks had generally 

 many children, who, besides being costly 

 to bring up, were troublesome in the 

 kitchen, by frequently taking things 

 they ought not, and making dirt: but 

 what was much worse than all this, from 

 her own children playing with the young 

 negroes, who by nature appeared to be 

 given to vice, her children unavoidably 

 contracted the habits of the negroes, and 

 had their morals much corrupted. I think 

 a large number of negroes to require as 

 severe discipline as a company of soldiers : 

 and that may be one and the great cause 

 why General Washington managed his 

 negroes better than any other man, he 

 being brought up to the army, and by 

 nature industrious beyond any description, 

 and in regularity the same. There are 

 several anecdotes related of him, for being 

 methodical. I was told by General Stone 

 that he was travelling with his family in 

 his carriage across the country, and ar- 



