Monte Vernon e le sue associazioni, storico, biografico e pittorico. Thither, è stato organizzato nella primavera del 1754. Colonnello Joshua Fry è stato nominato suo comandante, e MajorWashington suo luogotenente. Per un po 'di tempo Mount Vernon è apparso come un recruitingstation. A lungo tutti i preparativi sono stati completati, e sul 2d di aprile, Maggiore Wasliington, con il corpo avanzato, marciato da Alessandria verso l'Ohio. Dopo un viaggio faticoso di diciotto giorni, sul Blue Ridge, si reachedthe foce di Wills Creek (ora Cumberland), dove Wash-ington, per la prima volta, occupava una casa per le sue hea

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Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . thither, was organized in the spring of 1754.Colonel Joshua Fry was appointed its commander, and MajorWashington his lieutenant. For a while Mount Vernon appeared like a recruitingstation. At length all preparations were completed, and onthe 2d of April, Major Wasliington, with the advanced corps, marched from Alexandria toward the Ohio. After a toilsomejourney of eighteen days, over the Blue Ridge, they reachedthe mouth of Wills Creek (now Cumberland), where Wash-ington, for the first time, occupied a house for his head-quarters as a military commander. It was the dwelling of apioneer. It has long since passed away, but the pencil haspreserved its features, and now, at the distance of time ofmore than a hundred years, we may look upon the portrait ofWashingtons first IIead-Quaeters. It is not our purpose to trace the events of Washingtonslife in their consecutive order. We propose to give delinea-tions of only such as held intimate relations with his beautiful AXD ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 41. WASUINGION S FIRST IIEAD-QUAUTERS. ]:omG on the Potomac, wliicli, for more than forty years, wasto him the clearest spot on the earth. During tlie war between the French and Englisli, that com-menced in earnest in 1755, wlien Eraddock came to Americaas commander-in-chief of the British forces, until the close ofthe campaign of 1758, when the Frencli and their duskyallies were driven from the forks of the Ohio, Washingtonwas almost continually in the public service, and spent butlittle time at Mount Yernon. He had been promoted toColonel in 1751, but, on account of new military arrange-ments by the blundeiing, wrong-headed, narrow-minded Gov-ernor Dinwiddie, lie had left tlie service with disgust, andretired to the cpiiet of ])rivate life at Mount Vernon, with adetermination to spend his life tliere in the pursuits of agricul-ture— jiursuits which he always passionately loved, andlonged for nu)st earnestly wh

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