. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . 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
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . 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 !. MORRIS S HOUSE. But, three years later, tliere was a presiding angel over themansion on Mount Vernon. Meanwhile the tramp of steeds,the clangor of arms, and every sound betokening warlike prep-arations, were heard tliere, and the decisive campaign ot 1758was opened. Washington went to the camp as soon as his health wouldpermit; and toward Fort du Quesne, at the confluence of theforks of the Ohio, quite a large army made its way. Wastingdelays and weary marches consumed the summer time; andlate in autumn, having traversed deep forests and ruggedmountains, the invading army found rest, beyond the Alle-ghanies. Colonel Washington, with an advanced guard, tookpossession of all that was left of Fort du Quesne, where Pitts-burg now stands. It had been the prize for which Braddockcontended — the nest from which came the vultures that AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 61 preyed upon the frontier settlements. Over its smoking ruinsthe red cross of St. George was nnfurled, where for four yearshad waved t
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