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and fu furnaces frnaces maryland and virginia yielded a ter profit than any others in the t 16 colonies i I 1 I 1 his father once a pallor I 1 I 1 A lie ho bad commanded a ship in time as so many many of his had bild in that mail maritime time province car I 1 irig iron from the mines to engla I 1 wa k 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 it 1 I 1 our i Y TM airl 1 11 t 14 1 ii e 11 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 4 4 I 1 I 1 V 1 I 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 it 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 r N 4 1 92 I 1 all ct I 1 p jAnc k he himself raised the ore from tho the mines that lay upon tits his own land clase 6 to the potomac and had it car easy six miles to the abe river matters were very very well managed manag ad there colonel byrd said and no pains were here spared to ta make the business profitable prout able 4 captain washington had represented his homo home parish of truro too in tho the house of at burgesses where his hia athletic figure hta his ruddy skin akin an d frank gray eyes must havo have made him is as conspicuous as aa his constituents zouk could stays ayo wished lie he was a roan man of aae le world every inch generous hardy independent ile he lived long enough 00 0 oo o to see how stalwart and capable and of how noble noblee a spirit ills his young ion was to be with how manly a hearing bearing ar ho was to darry carry himself in the ft orl orld d alq anc had loved him and made I 1 1 him tits his companion accordingly ho he inherits a farm ai I 1 t tha end c cania ale for I 1 him before he uld see the lad out of boyhood he fie died april 12 1743 1744 when he was but furty nicie years of age aud and before 1 georg 0 java was s twelve and in his w ul there waa as of cau course ai for george only I 1 I 1 y youn lounger ger ions porton portion the active I 1 ai ent botleman leman had been celce married apol and there vore I 1 seven children to bo be tor for two sons bons of the first lied the bulk of the mat on at custom dle die bated to 14 rence the eldest son to aab I 1 I 1 N X gustine augustine the second son fell most atthe atie rich lands in westmoreland roland I 1 llO 10 orge tho the eldest born ot of the sect left to the guardianship I 1 ahls 1 is young mother shared with the coett I 1 younger n children tho the residue of it te aes estate tate he was to inherit his at au ers farm upon the 1 ai 15 assess os eess and to cultivate if lie he foot 0 id when lie he should come of ago age put kl for tho the rest his fortunes were to 0 a ila ho must get such serviceable r ing as he be could for a life of inde ant endeavor tho the a older hers had been sent to england to jjr their schooling and preparation life as their father before them ad been to get lils his lawrence to eabe e ready to take tits his fathers place sn n the time should come augus insl lp to fit himself for the law could n id now look for or nothing athe ithe kind ile he must continue as he be 4 to get such elementary and I 1 r tacal instruction as was to ta be had C hool masters iti in virginia and the ag wye mothers care must stand himan him in fig tead of a fathers and sight ight wise and provident mother tuna tely mary washington was so a and provident mother a worn boni it f too firm a character and too ifil a courage to be dismayed risibility she had seemed 4 air and beautiful girl when ailin atille 1 e washington married her there was a romantic mantic story told of how that gallant virginian sailor and gentleman had literally been thrown at her feet out of a carriage I 1 ilithe nithe london streets by way of intro abere she too was a visiting stranger out of virginia but she had shown a singular capacity for business when the romantic days of courtship were over lawrence washington too though but five and twenty when his father died and left him head of the family proved himself such an elder brother as it could but better and elevate a boy to have for all he war so young he bad seen something ing of the world and had already made notable friends ile he had not returned home out of england until lie he was turned of twenty one and lie ho had been back scarcely a twelvemonth twelve month before ho he was oft again to seek in the war against spain tile hla brother a captain the colonies had bad responded with a an n unwonted willingness and spirit in 1740 to the homo home governments call for troops to go against the spaniard in the west indies and ald lawrence washington had sought and obtained a commission as captain in the virginian regiment which had volunteered for the duty ile he had seen those terrible days at cartagena with ver vcr fleet and Went lis army when tho the deadly heat and blighting damps of the tropics wrought a work of death which drove the Enill english sh forth as no fire from the spanish cannon could lie he had been one of that devoted force throw itself twelve hundred strong upon fort san lazaro and came away beaten with six elx hundred only ile he had seen the raw provincials out or of the colonies carry themselves as gallantly as any veterans through all ail tho the flery fiery trial had bad seen the storm and the valor the vacillation and the blundering and tha shame cfall of all the rash affair and had come away the friend and admirer of tho the gallant vernon despite his head strong folly and sad and miscarriage tie he had bad reached rear lied home again late in the year 1742 only to see BOO his father presently Anat snatched ched away by a sudden illness and to find himself become head of the family in his stead 1 all thought of further service away I 1 from home was dismissed ile he accept ed ad a commission as n major in the colonial militia and an appointment as adjutant general of the hrict in which ills lands lay but ho he meant that for the future hla his duties i should be civil ra rather ther than military in the life he set himself to live and turned very quietly to the business and the social duty of a proprietor among his neighbors in fairfax county upon tho broad estates to which he gave tile the name mount vernon in compliment to the bravo brave sailor whose friend lie had become in fix tho the far unhappy south t lawr lawrence F nce marries and S settles ettles marriage was of course his bla first step towards domestication and the woman he chose brought him into new connections which suited both his bis tastes and nd his training three months after hla his fathers death he married anne fairfax daughter of at william fairfax his neighbor william granduncle thomas third lord fairfax who had in that revolutionary year 1646 1046 summon summoned ed colonel henry washington to give into his hands the city of worcester and who had got so sharp an answer frow from the ahe kings stout soldier but tho the Fair faxes had soon enough turned royalists again when they saw whither tile the parliament men would carry them A hundred healing years had gone by since those unhappy days when the nation was arrayed against tho the king icing anne F fairfax aira a x brought no alien traditions to tho the household of her young husband her father had served the king as her lover had bad with more hardship than reward ard as belic behooved avoid a soldier in spain and in the bahamas and was now when turned of fifty agent hero here in virginia to tits his cousin thomas sixth baron fairfax in the management of at hla his great estates lying upon the northern neck and in the fruitful valleys beyond william fairfax had been but nine years in the colony but he was already a virginian like his neighbors and as collector of his Maje customs tor for the 4 south potomac and president of the kings council no small email figure iq li their affairs aman who had seen the world apo knew how to bear himself in this part of it lord fairfax arrives in 1740 thomas lord fairfax himself camo came to virginia a man strayed out of the world of fashion at fifty five into the forests of a wild frontier the better part of his ancestral estates in yorkshire had been sold to satisfy the creditors of his spead I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i 1 0 O I 1 X 1111 r W 0 X 11 v L 14 I 1 I 1 f 1 I 1 6 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 x I 1 I 1 I 1 14 1 1 N 5 4 X k IN i 41 k 6 I 1 e I 1 I 1 mw V ilk I 1 11 I 1 1 A I 1 aj 1 I 1 N W 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 1 if I 1 I 1 1 1 11 I 1 i I 1 va 1 c x N 1 1 01 10 IO 1 4 zt 11 1 K I 1 I 1 I 1 1111 V Q A X 1 at m 3 3 X W I 1 S 1 P K 1 1 I 1 1 ak aws az z V aj i A X 4 X ik t att k L A ill aek 1 r I 1 1 0 I 1 1 I 1 Q I 1 f N lawrence washington thrift father these untitled stretches of land in the old dominion were now become the chief pirt of his patrimony T was said bald too that it he a had suffered a cruel misadventure in lovo love at tho the hands of a fair jilt in london and so had become the austere eccentric bachelor ho be showed himself to be in the free and quiet colony A man of taste and culture he had w written ritten with addison and steele for the spectator a man of the world arid ho he had acquired for all hla his reserve ahat that easy touch and intimate anaste mastery y in dealing with men which come with the long practice of such men of fashion as are also men of sense lie he brought with him to virginia though past fifty the frosh fresh vigor of a young man eager for the free pioneer life of such a province lord fairfax guilds builds a lodge he tarried earled but two years with his cousin where the colony had settled to an ordered way of living then he built himself a roomy lodge shadowed by spreading piazzas and jd fitted with such simple appointments n as sufficed for comfort at the depths of tho the forest close upon seventy miles away within the valley vf ot the shen andrau where a hardy front frontier ler people had but begun to gather tho gr great a at rn manor a nor hou house B a h ho 0 ha had d meant to build was never begun the plain comforts of ore gre away i way court sata fled him more and more easily as the years passed and the habits of a simple life grew increasingly pleasant and familiar till thirty years and more had slipped away and he ana as dead at ninety one bral brokenhearted broken en hearted men said because the kings government had fallen upon final defeat and was done with in america bred in good company it wr was in fit the company of these men and 0 of those who naturally gathered about them in that hospitable country that george washington was bred A stranger hail had no more to do says bays i de beverley rf everley verley but to inquire upon tho cho road where any gentleman rent leman or good glod i h housekeeper lived and thera there he might depend up upon on being received with hospitality pita lity and certain many besides strangers would seek out tho the young major at mount vernon whom tits his neighbor had hastened to make their representative in the house of 0 burgesses and the old soldier of at the soldierly house housa of at fairfax who was president of the kings council and so next to tho jhb governor himself A boy who was much at mount vernon and at mr air seat scat might expect to see not a little that was worth seeing of the lite life of the colony colon Y george was kept at school until he be was close upon sixteen but there was amplo vacation time for visiting A airs irs washington did not keep him at her apron strings ho even lived when it was necessary with hla his brother augustine at the old home on bridges creek in order to be near the best school that was accessible while the mother was far away on the farm that lay upon the nock lock mra airs washington saw to it nevertheless that she should not lose 1000 sight of him altogether I 1 apprenticeship ir p the woods when he was fourteen it was proposed that he should be sent to sea as so many lads lade were no doubt f from rain that maritime province provin co but the pr prudent U mother preferred he should not leave virginia and the scholl schooling ng went on as before tho the schooling of books and manly sports every lad learned to ride to ride colt or horse regardless of training gait or temper in that country where no one went afoot except to catch its his mount in the pasture every lad black or white bond or free knew where to find and how to take the roving game in the forests and young washington robust boy that he ha was not to be daunted while that strong spirit sat eat in him which he got from his father and mother alike took his apprenticeship on horseback and in the tangled woods with characteristic zest and ardor k acquires the art of mastery he was abaye all things else a capable executive be boy y ila he loved mastery and ho relished acquiring the most effective means of mastery in all ail practical ni abfalt af falis 3 ills his very exer else books used at school gave proof of it IL they were filled not only with the rules formulae diagrams and exercises of surveying which ho he was waa taking special pains to learn at the advice of its his friends but also with careful of legal and mercantile papers bills of exchange bills of sale bonds indentures land warrants leases d deeds beds and wills will as if ho he meant to bo be a lawyers or a merchants clerk it would seem that passionate and full of warm blood as he be was he ha conned these thin things gs as he studley studied thi aho be and structure of his fowling piece the bridle ho he used for his colts hla his saddle girth and the best ways ol al mounting ile he copied these forms 0 f business as ho he might have copied Bever leys account of the way fox or I 1 possum or beaver was to bo be taken or the wild turkey trapped the men lie he most admired hla his eld elder er brothers mr fairfax and the I 1 gentlemen planters who were so BO much at their houses were most of them sound men of business who valued good surveying as aa much as they admired good horsemanship and sk skill ull to la sport they were their own men chants and looked upon forms ol al business paper as quite as useful a aa a plows and hogsheads hog careful exercise in such matters might well enough accompany 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