Washington didn't cut down a cherry tree. This is a folk tale that has been taken as history and was written by a Parson Weems as truth in his book a 100 years after the death of Washington.
Actually, George Washington did not chop down a cherry tree, it is just a myth.
Cherries, from the legend of him cutting down a cherry tree.
No..Although George's handbook listed his early education; there is no mentioning at all that he chopped down a cherry tree, nor any mentioning of his father ever owning a cherry tree..He may had chopped down some small branches from an oak or pine when he was a small boy ; but it would't had been a cherry tree.
No- the cherry tree was a fabrication, but perhaps it did capture a true aspect of Washington's character.
chop down cherry trees of course!
No George Washington is not chopping down tress to this day. He died December 14, 1799.
George Washington did not chop down a cherry tree or say "I can't tell a lie, Pa". This apocryphal story was created by Mason Locke Weems better known as Parson Weems in A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington.
George Wahington cut his father's cherry tree down. When he was asked about it, he told the truth.
He cut down a cherry tree.
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