Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . the nextfour years; for the flame of Mar lighted up the land fromAcadia, and along the St. Lawrence, away down to the beau-tiful Cherokee country, in Western Georgia and Carolina, andWashington was most of the time in camp, except fromDecember, 1757, until March, 1758, when he Mas an invalidat home. In February, 1756, we find him, accompanied by two aides,journeying to Boston, to confer with General Shirley con-cerning military rank in Virginia. Little did he then thinkthat twenty years later he would again be there di
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . the nextfour years; for the flame of Mar lighted up the land fromAcadia, and along the St. Lawrence, away down to the beau-tiful Cherokee country, in Western Georgia and Carolina, andWashington was most of the time in camp, except fromDecember, 1757, until March, 1758, when he Mas an invalidat home. In February, 1756, we find him, accompanied by two aides,journeying to Boston, to confer with General Shirley con-cerning military rank in Virginia. Little did he then thinkthat twenty years later he would again be there directing asiege against the ]Sew England capital, in command of rebelsagainst the crown he was then serving! We find him lingering in Kew York, on his return. The AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 45 young soldier, apparently invincible to the mortal weaponsof war, was sorely smitten there by the sly archer concealedin the bright eyes, blooming cheeks, and winning ways ofMary Phillipse, the heiress of a broad domain, stretchingmany a mile along the Hudson. The young soldier lingered. MART PHILLIPSE. in her presence as long as duty would permit, and he wouldfain have carried her with him to Virginia as a bride, but hisnatural diffidence kept the momentous question unspoken inhis heart, and his fellow aide-de-camp in Braddocks family,Koger Morris, bore away the prize. Mary Phillipse did notbecome the mistress of Mount Vernon, but reigned, as beau-teous queen, in a more stately mansion on the bank of the 46 M 0 U N T V E R N O-N Harlem Eiver, where, twenty years later, Washington, asleader of a host of Americans, in arms against tlie king, lieklhis head-qnarters, the master and mistress of the mansionbeing proscribed as enemies to their comitry ! MORRIS S HOnSE. Bnt, three years later, there was a presiding angel over themansion on Mount Yernon, Meanwhile the tramp of steeds,the clangor of arms, and every sound betokening warlike prep-arations, were heard there, and the decisive campaign ot 17
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