Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . of Monmouth; and died in Philadelphia in comparativepoverty, in the autumn of 1782, at the age of fifty-one was a brilliant man in many things, but his life exhibitediew commendable traits of character. He was bad in moralsand manners; profane and extravagant in language, and fearedand loved neither God nor man. In his will he bequeathedhis soul to the Almighty and his body to the earth, saying:I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in anychurch or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian orA
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . of Monmouth; and died in Philadelphia in comparativepoverty, in the autumn of 1782, at the age of fifty-one was a brilliant man in many things, but his life exhibitediew commendable traits of character. He was bad in moralsand manners; profane and extravagant in language, and fearedand loved neither God nor man. In his will he bequeathedhis soul to the Almighty and his body to the earth, saying:I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in anychurch or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian orAnabaptist meeting-house; for, since I have resided in this 96 MOUNT Y E R N 0 X country, I have kept so mneli bad C()in])any when livinix, thatI do not choose to continue it Avlien dead. Major Gates Avas three years tlie senior of Washington, andis supposed to have been a natural son of Horace was an officer in the British army during the French andIndian Avar, and was Avith Braddock in the l)attle of theMonongahela, Avhere he was severely Avounded. He acconi-. GfiNERAL HOSATIO GATES. panied General Mocktoii to the West Indies as his aide-de-camp, and expected great preferment after the campaign Avasover, as he Avas the bearer to the king of the tidings of theEnglish victory at Martinico. He was disappointed, and, in1772, he sold his commission of major, came to America, andpurcliased an estate in Berkeley county, Yirginia, beyond theBlue Ridi^e. AND IT8 ASSOCIATIONS. 97 Gates was the opposite of Lee in his social qualities, being aperfect gentleman in his deportment. lie, also, espoused therepublican cause at the kindling of the war, w^as appointed thefirst adjutant-general of the continental army, and arose to therank, of major-general. He was ambitious and vain; and,during the first half of the war, was seeking to take the placeof Washington as supreme commander of the American armies. His last active military command was in South Carolina,in the summer of 1780, w
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