Show richt love affair george fairfax was the companion of washington on his surveying tour for lord fairfax washington first met mra fairfax at belvoir near mount veroon when she waa brought home as the bride of george william fairfax miss mary cary accompanied her sister sarah to belvoir and there met george washington she was then but fourteen years of age washington was only sixteen he bad never visited the low country near williamsburg prior to this and therefore coald not have met sarah gary until her marriage it is said that he fell in love at sight with mary cary and went so far on his ficht visit to as to ask colonel cary for the baad of hia daughter the big rawboned lad found scant favor in the eyes of the patrician planter he was dismissed in terms so curt that we must bear in mind paternal pride and other extenuating circumstances if we would kep intact our idea of a fino i old virginia gentleman if that is business here air I 1 wish you to leave the house my daughter the swelling emphasis rumbles down the corridor of years has been accustomed to ride in her own coach tradition asserts that the chagrined suitor took the choleric parent at his word and that the next time he looked upon the face of his early love was when he passed through williamsburg on his return from yorktown after the surrender of cornwallis marion Ilir pers weekly |