Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . THE NATIONAL CAPITOL, Aa seen from Pennsjlvania THE VAN NESS MANSION, AND DAVT BURNS COTTAGE. OLD HOMES AND HAUNTS. 551 ington, David Burns only daughter was not more thantwelve or thirteen years of age. With a prescience of her future lot, he proceeded togive her every advantage of education and society atthat period accessible to a gentlewoman of fortune. TheRector of St. Johns Church, who preached her funeralsermon in 1832, said: She was placed by her parentsin the family of Luther Martin, Esq
Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . THE NATIONAL CAPITOL, Aa seen from Pennsjlvania THE VAN NESS MANSION, AND DAVT BURNS COTTAGE. OLD HOMES AND HAUNTS. 551 ington, David Burns only daughter was not more thantwelve or thirteen years of age. With a prescience of her future lot, he proceeded togive her every advantage of education and society atthat period accessible to a gentlewoman of fortune. TheRector of St. Johns Church, who preached her funeralsermon in 1832, said: She was placed by her parentsin the family of Luther Martin, Esq., of Baltimore, whowas then at the height of his fame as the most distin-guished jurist and advocate in the State of Maryland,and with his daughters and family she had the best op-portunity of education and society. At eighteen, Marcia Burns returned to the home ofher parents — the lowly farm-house on the banks of thePotomac. Then, and at a later day, when the flush andenchantment of youth had fled, the vision of MarciaBurns is altogether lovely. Beside the attractions offortune, she seemed to possess in an eminent degree thehighest qual
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