the name of several towns in America, such, for instance, as Georgetown in Maryland, about 65 miles S. W. of Philadelphia; Georgetown in the county of Lincoln, and district of Maine, lying on both sides of Kennebec river, 148 miles S. W. of Philadelphia, where the Roman Catholics have a very flourishing college: it is the name of a village in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where a number of boats are annually built; and of a post town in the district of the same name, where the Episcopalians, Baptists, and Methodists, have each a place of worship, although the number of houses in it does not much exceed 300, which are constructed chiefly of wood. It lies 127 miles S. W. of Wilmington, and 681 from Philadelphia.