Show aul wul n rix I 1 THE STORY TO or OY THE E FUIS FUIST T P BY THE 1 installment 2 I 1 one roan man indeed gave at least a touch of another anether quality to the life washington saw this was lord fairfax who ho had been almost two to ears in virginia when the boy quit school and who was now determined is to eoon soon as night might be to take up his hi residence at bis big forest lodge within the blue ridge george greatly truck bis his lordship lorde hip a fancy tancy as be he did that of all capable men as a daring lad in the hunt and a sober lad in counsel and arn drifon into such corn com he learned a great deal that no one else in virginia could hare have taught him eu so well the lous deportment of a highbred high bred and honorable bono rable man of the world the use if of books by those who preferred at airs lairs thi way in which strength may mity de be rendered ren Jered gracious and ludepen lenco madu generous A touch of old world address as to be learned at belvoir ills 1113 association with lord fairfax moreover put him in the way of mak ing ng his first calnin cannings gs as R surveyor fairfax had not riot come to america merely to get away imay from the world of fashion in london and bury himself in the wilderness ills chief motive A 4 14 fa A e I 1 r 11 W I 1 at k 11 t S 4 lord fairfax was As one which did dij him much more mo credit and bespoke him a roan man and a true colonist it ars ra his purpose he declared to open up settle and auld ate late the task vast tracts of beautiful and fertile land he had inherited in vir ginta and he firoved i roved its tl by immediately setting the bual bust ness ll 11 was necessary as a first step that he should have surreys made in or der that ho he might know tow his land lay how bounded Y nd disposed through the glades 31 i upon the streams of the Is lei forests surveys fairfax esmati in washington he fairfax bad a surveyor ready to bis his hand the lad was sas but sixteen indeed was largely self taught in surveying and bad had had no business yet made tet test of hia hill quality hut but surveyors were ere scarce and boy boys were not tender ai at sixteen in that robust out of door col ony fairfax bad had an eye for capacity he ile knew the athletic boy to be b a fear leis less woodsman with that odd calra judgment looking forth at his big steady gray eyes perceived how seriously he took himself in all that he did and how thorough he as at succeeding arl ard had oo 00 doubt he could rue run his lines lives through gl the thicketed forests as well as a any man at any rate be he him to undertake the task and was not disappointed la in the way vay he be performed it IL ithan a very few weeks waihing washing ton too conclusively bowed showed bis his capacity with george fairfax i in march HO 1148 william FaIr fairfax fals s son BOD for company be he rode forth sith ath his little band of I 1 through the mountains to the wild country where here his work lay and the month almost he was 43 back again with maps map and figure figures I 1 which aih bowed bis big lordship very clear what lands ho bad upon the spark ay iy y the swollen up ling shelia shenandoah doah and water waters of the potomac per before making bis his home all he be v anted where bis bla rotate lay in I 1 the wilder before the ear was out he be bad had ness liess himself at Oreen areen wry established A bitched and bun timen and tenant bourt tour bad franj their way say thita th pr guests bests and stud 9 life ws ira tty fairly begu a upon pa the rural barony likes his work I 1 bad been wild ila and even perilous it but jut just surveyor the young tor for work volk chool to go 90 la in the wet act tpring out ol 01 when hen the that tine time into swollen and ugly with the rivers r ver w were now from off ff the th melting ng and rain ins ra bre where there was scarcely mountains to bo be ba bad d except in it the a lodding of the cat cabin comfort comfortes less Ks 7 baat jt or c en n the terea ettl crt d abere A woo in the cpru 11 woodman roans e wits were needed to come com 0 even ven tolerably ott aft hut but there as a trong strong relish in euch such an experience for or washington which did not wear of oc with alth the novelty of it there Is an unmistakable note of boyish satis sails action in the tone tons in which he peaks speaks of 0 it since you received my letter in october last he writes to a young comrade 1 I have nave not sleep d above three nights or four in a bed but after walking biking a good deal all the day I 1 lay down before the fire ere upon a lit llo hay straw fodder or bearskin boar bear skin whichever bl chever la Is to be had with ith ma ins wife and children like a parcel of dogs and cat cats and happy Is be he who get gets the berth nearest the fire are a 0 0 1 I have never bad had roy my clothe clothes oc off but lay and bleep in them except the few night nights I 1 have lay layn in in fred erick town for three year years he kept steadily etea dlly at the trying business without wit houft loel 1056 either of health or courage now deep la in the forests laboriously laying off the rich bottom lands and swelling hill sides of that wild but goodly coun try between the mountain mountains now at greenan Ore Gre enway enay court with his lordship intent upon the busy ufa life there fol lowing the hound hounds contorting with huntsmen and indian and traders adera tr waiting ailing upon the ladles ladies who now and again visited tha the lodge chyn other occupation occupations failed re reeling aing up and down doan in hia his lordships copy of the i spectator or in the hist historian who ho told the great english etory story made official surveyor I 1 hii ills first 81 success la in surveying brought him frequent employment in the valley settler settlers were steadily etca dlly making their way say thither 0 bo o mut must needa needs have their holding holdings clearly bounded and defined denned upon his hi lord hips ships recommendation and bis his own orin bowing showing of what hat lie knew and could do ho he obtained appointment at the hands of the president and master of willlam NIl ll llara llam and mary the colony careful agent in the matter as official surveyor urve for culpepper county took the usual oath oaths to his majesty a per son and government and eo go 0 got tor for bis his work the privilege of ut hotta live tive public record competent surveyors urve were ere much in demand and aud hen once he had been i officially offic tally accredited in his protte ston sion ashington had as nuch to do both upon new lands and old as even a young mans energy and liking for an i independent income could reasonably demand lives at mount vernon aili home nome lie mate maeo with ith his brother at mount vernon where ne no was al at way woys so welcome and he was as often of ten as possible with ith bis his mother at her place upon the Rappa rappahannock hannock to lend the effle fent laly such assistance assli tance as the she deeded in the bus business of the estate tb held for herself and her children at odd inte vals he studied tactics practiced ahr th manual of arm arms or tool a turn at the broad broadsword sord with the old soldiers who so easily found excuses for visiting major Vahl Wash loSton at mount vernon nut put except when winfer weather forbade him the fields he ins as abroad ab roal 1 far and near busy with his survey ing and incidentally making trial of his neighbors op up and down all the country countryside side round about as an bis his er rands threw thres their epen door doors in bis his way va ay ills pleasant ata leg tug and his quiet at being busy his manly efficient ways says his evident self respect and his frank enjoyment of life the engaging mixture in him of man and by boy must have become fa millar to everybody wora knowing throughout all the Nort hert neck goes to the bahamas ii bit it three year years put a term to his surveying in lal he was called im tm operatively ively off and bad th taj wol course of hie his ftfe its changed by he be lit ness of bis his lawrence wash agton bad had never been robust tote those long months spent at rit the heart of the fery south with ith vernone vernons fever ever bricken tr icken fleet bad had touched bis his senst sens live constitution to the quick aad at last a fa J 1 I bonsu as ened upon him hirn neither a trip to england nor the waters at of the warm spring ngit at home brought him recuperation and in the autumn of 1761 his clan ordered him to the bahamas for or the inter george whom he be so loved and trusted went eat with hm him to nurse ind cheer him out but even the gentle sea nir of the islands wrought no cere cure of the anub tuo boril malady 1 sterling gifted lovable gentleman who ho hart harl mide bis his quiet seat at mount verwin ver win homo hom 1 lot of so much that was as honor bonor alile atile and 0 iii 11 good fit report port came back he be next ft pw lt met mer to die in n his prime at thirty four irge found himself named executor la in his brothers will and antl looked to of a sudden to au guard ard all the interests ct of the widow and br her little daugh te ter r in the management of a large ci estate that trip to the dalamas had been bis his last outing 38 a boy lie bad enjoyed the novel journey with a very teen and natural re ra kb h while it promised his big brother health the ra diant biant air of those summer lies islas had antl bcd him with a new now Ilea te asare and the cordial hospitality of the home ick colonists bad had added the lion tion of a he its hail boived the smallpox la in COO behold with true virginian punctilio puno rather than refuse an invitation I 1 ta dinner had taken the th infection ad bad had some home at last bearing a boine ins permanent marks of a three week weeks sharp illness upon him but put be had had entertainment enough to strike the balance handsomely against such inconvenience inconveniences had bad borne what eter came in hia his way say very cheerily with that wholesome strength of mind ilitch made older men like him and would hare bays come ot oft remembering nothing bat but the pleasure of the trip bad hie his nook noble brother only found his hi health again As it wae was lawrence a death put a final term lo 10 hie his youth five other executor executors were named in the will but bit george as it turned out was to be looked to to carry the burden of and gave full proof of the qualities that bad had made his hi broth er trust him with so generous a con dicomes a major of militia I 1 ilia ills brothers othere br death in t troth ru th changed everything tor for him lie seemed of a cudden sudden to eland stand as law reucia representative defore before they set out for or the bahamas Ilaha maa lewrena had transferred to him his place in the militia obtaining for him though he was but nineteen a commission as a major and district adjutant la in big hi stead and after his hi return in 1762 1752 lieutenant governor dinwiddle the crown crowns e new representative in vir ginta added still further to his responsibilities as a soldier by reducing the military district of the colony to four and assigning him one of the four under a renewed commission as major and adjutant general ills III brothers will not only named him an exe ex ector CLor but also made hl him m residuary legatee of the estate of mount ver non in case his big child shot die lie ile had to look to the discipline ind nc ac cout rement of he tr militia illitia of eleven counties aid ald till his mother in her bus bust nee geee administer ills his brother a estate ind assume on all banda hands the duties and ani responsibilities of a nan trian of at fairs ben hen he vias as but just lurked of twenty the action of tho the colonial govern ment ao 10 compacting the organization and discipline of tho the militia by reducing the number of military districts was significant of a ter change irr the posture of affairs beyond the borders the movements ot of the french in the west bad of late become more ominous than ever possible the virginia aultia multia might any day see an end of that I 1 everlasting peace pence which goad mr air beverley Oe verley had smiled to see them complacently enjoy and that the young major wito was now adjutant general of the northern division might find duties abroad even more serious and responsible tarn his du ties at home wr was inevitable whoever should bo be commissioned to meet and deal with the frenca upon the western rivers would bavo have to handle truly critical affairs decisive of the fate of the continent and it looked as it virginia must undertake the fateful business the northern borders indeed were sadly sady harried by the savage allies of the friench french the brunt of the alighting hitherto hit lift herti hert bad fallen upon the aandy militiamen of massachusetts and connecticut to a the slow contest for english master up 01 OD the continent hut but there atas was real ly nothing to be decided in that quarter the french were not likely to attempt the mad tank of driving out the thickly set met english population tl ready established hundreds of thou sands strong upon the eastern coasts I 1 the french move movie their true lines of conquest ran with in their strength lay in their corn com matil roan 1 of the giat watercourses which banked flanked the english colonies both north and west a long frontier to held that mazy line of lake and river that ran all the from the gulf of st Law lawrencce to the wide doutha ou of the sluggish well armed and ready throughout all the posts posta and set met that lay upon it from end pad lo 10 end thorsa were scarcely car cely el aly thousand frenchmen while the english teemed upon the coasts more than a million stronie dut but tho the forces of new franca could cowd b handled ilka like ar at anny while tha english i arrold lowly slowly westward we atward without discipline or direction the headstrong subject subjects of a distant the would not obey ober the wayward constituent constituents of a score of petty and jealous assem bilea bites tardy at planning clumsy at ex editing plane plans they ere still far ar away too from hi mid waters of the lakes take and ad from the royal stream of ma the mississippi itself where lonely boats wats floated slowly down with their cargoes of eai tallow tobacco oil hides and lead oat out ot of the country of the illinois past the long thin lint of tin isolated posta posts to the growing village at new now orleana orleans ind and the southern gulf but they were to be feared none the less if it their tide once flowed in the french well knew it could not be turned back agaba it was not far away from the ohio now and if it once settlers out of pennsylvania Pennsyl rania and virginia gained a foothold in auy any numbers on tha river 1 they would control one of the great highways that led to the main basins of the conti cond nent it was imperative they should be effectually forestalled and that at once duquesne daddes to fight the marquis duquesne Ou quesne with bis his quick soldier blood at last took the decisive step stop for prance france he ile bad hardly come to his coony colony to serve his royal roaster mister as governor gorer nor upon the BL st lawrence when he determined to occupy the upper waters of the ohio and block the western passes against the tb english with ith a line of military posts tho the matter did not seem urgent to the doubting ministers at versailles he be on your guard against new undertakings eald said official letters out of france private interests are generally at the vie bottom of them but du quesne krew that it was no mere vata vats interest nf of fur trader or lator that was at stake now tho the rl ri valry between the two nations had bad gone too far to make it pos possible sibie to draw back military posts bad had al 0 S authored te to act ready been established by the bold energy of the french 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