Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . DANIEL PARKE ClISTIS. England, Averc contained in a strong iron l)ox, -\vliicli is care-fully ])rcserved l)y her de-gg^r-f^^^^^S^^^^^^^^^^^—- scendants, at their beau-tiful seat at Arlington,on the Potomac, (^pj)ositeWashington Citv. And niucli, continuesthe writer we have (juoted, hath the biographerheard of tliat marriage of Washington, from the grayhaired domestics mIio Maited at the board where love made the feast and the Virginia colonel was the truest. ^. MRS. CCSTIS S IRON CHEST. AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 51 And so
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . DANIEL PARKE ClISTIS. England, Averc contained in a strong iron l)ox, -\vliicli is care-fully ])rcserved l)y her de-gg^r-f^^^^^S^^^^^^^^^^^—- scendants, at their beau-tiful seat at Arlington,on the Potomac, (^pj)ositeWashington Citv. And niucli, continuesthe writer we have (juoted, hath the biographerheard of tliat marriage of Washington, from the grayhaired domestics mIio Maited at the board where love made the feast and the Virginia colonel was the truest. ^. MRS. CCSTIS S IRON CHEST. AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 51 And so you remember, I said to old CuUj, my grand-mothers servant, when in liis hundredth year—and so youremember when Colonel AVashington came a-courting youryoung unstress ? Ay, master, that I do, said Cully. Great tiuies, sir,great times — shall never see the like again. And Washington looked something like a man — a properman, hey. Cull}? Never seed the like, sir — never the like of him, though 1have seen many in my day — so tall, so straight, and then hesat on a horse and rode with such an air! Ah, sir, he waslike no one else! Many of the grandest gentlemen, in thegold lace, were at the wedding; but none looked like the manhimself. The marriage of Washington occurred on the ITtli ofJanuary, (6th Old Style), 1759, at the White House, theresidence of his bride, in New Kent county, not far fromWilliamsburg. The officiating clergyman was the KeverendDavid Mossom, who, for forty years was rector of the neigh-boring parisli o
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