Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . full well,Henceforth will count him his friend,And hopes many happy days be may spend. Your good friend, George Washington. I am going to get a whip top soon, and you may see itand whip it. Augustine Washington died in the spring of 1743, whenhis son George was eleven years of age, and by his last willand testament bequeathed his estate of Hunting Creek, upona bay and stream of that name, near Alexandria, to LawrenceWashington, a son by his first wife, Jane Butler. It was a * In a letter to me, accompanying the two juv
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . full well,Henceforth will count him his friend,And hopes many happy days be may spend. Your good friend, George Washington. I am going to get a whip top soon, and you may see itand whip it. Augustine Washington died in the spring of 1743, whenhis son George was eleven years of age, and by his last willand testament bequeathed his estate of Hunting Creek, upona bay and stream of that name, near Alexandria, to LawrenceWashington, a son by his first wife, Jane Butler. It was a * In a letter to me, accompanying the two juvenile epistles, Mr. Lee writes:The letter of Richard Henry Lee was written by himself, and, uncorrected, wassent by him to his boy-friend, George Washington. The poetical effusion was, Ihave heard, written by a ilr. Howard, a gentleman who used to visit at the houseof Mr. Washington. » AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 25 noble domain of many liundred acres, stretcliing for milesalong the Potomac, and bordering tlie estates of the Fairfaxes,Masons, and other distingnished LAWRENCE WASHINGTON. Lawrence, who seems to have inherited the military spiritof liis family, had lately been to the wars. Admiral Vernon,commander-in-chief of Englands navy in the West Indies, hadlately chastised the Spaniards for their depredations nponBritish commerce, by capturing Porto Bello, on the isthmusof Darien. Tlie Spaniards prepared to strike an avengingblow, and the French determined to help them. Englandand her colonies were aroused. Four regiments, for servicein the AVest Indies, were to be raised in the American col- 26 M 0 u N T V i<: R X o:; uiiies; and from Massacliiisetts to tlie Carolinas, the fife anddrum of the recruiting sergeant were heard. Lawrence, tliena spirited young man of twenty-two, was among tlie thou-sands who caui!:ht the infection, and obtaining a captains
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