. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . the nextfour years; for the flame of war 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, 1Y5Y, until March, 1T58, when he was 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 Yirginia. Little did he then thinkthat twenty years l
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . the nextfour years; for the flame of war 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, 1Y5Y, until March, 1T58, when he was 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 Yirginia. Little did he then thinkthat twenty years later he would again be there directing asiege against the New England capital, in command of rebelsagainst the crown lie was then serving! We find him lingering in New York, on his return. The AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 69 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, Tlie 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,Roger Morris, bore away the prize. Mary Phillipse did notbecome the mistress of Mount Yernon, but reigned, as beau-teous queen, in a more stately mansion on the bank of the 60 MOUNT VERNON Harlem River, where, twenty years later, Washington, asleader of a host of Americans, in arms against the king, heldhis head-quarters, the master and mistress of the mansionbeing proscribed as enemies to their country !
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