Creating the United States
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The Toast to George Washington
Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791) was an essayist, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the best-known American composers in the eighteenth century. He wrote this celebratory song to honor General George Washington. “The Toast” was originally published in the Pennsylvania Packet, April 8, 1778.