Quotation record · reviewed 2026-08-09
Circulates under George Washington
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The cherry-tree confession comes from the nineteenth-century biography by Mason Locke Weems, not from a Washington document. It is a biographical legend presented as dialogue.
Source-backed author: Mason Locke Weems
Earliest traceable appearance in this record: 1800s editions of Parson Weems's biography of Washington.
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