Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . iiitm and was finally chosen to bethe first President of the United States of America, are stories which have been toldwith delight in every household and by every fireside of the civilized world. THE STUKV Of TiiK YOUJSG SUKVEVORS. 1,; How different the after career of George William his whilom friend and com-panion. He had no military as])irations but was honored by many civic positionsof trust in his province, and in all of them h
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . iiitm and was finally chosen to bethe first President of the United States of America, are stories which have been toldwith delight in every household and by every fireside of the civilized world. THE STUKV Of TiiK YOUJSG SUKVEVORS. 1,; How different the after career of George William his whilom friend and com-panion. He had no military as])irations but was honored by many civic positionsof trust in his province, and in all of them he fully sustained the integrity andnobility of his early manhood. Many times he was elected to thehouse of Burgessesand for some years he was one of his majestys Council at Williamsburg. On ihcdeath of his father in 1757 he succeeded him to his estate and became the proprietorof the Belvior home. He had married a daughter of Col Wilson Carey of Hampton. Like his friend Washington he had deplored the oppressions of the mother coun-try against the Colonists but unlike him he did not consider them sufficient causefor rebellion and resistance by force of ON THE HOME STRETCH. In 1772 he was called to England by private business, and on his voynge outpassed the ships which brought the obnoxious cargoes of tea to Boston aj^d otherprovincial harbors. He never returned to Virginia but died in Bath in 1787 agtd(>3 years. He lived to know of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to h_is friendWashington. His wife survived him until 1811 dying then at the age of 81. Overthe dust of George Wm. Fairfax in an obscure English Churchyard is a plain ;{ covered stone which rarely a wayfarer ever comes to look upon. The Jast resting) place of George Washington ever guarded and preserved in its beauty and sacred-I ness by pious care is a shrine to which come multitudes of reverential pilgrims fromevery nation and clime, and a grateful people remembering his virtues and theworks he did f
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