f George's
Correct Life--What Custis says about it--What Lawrence
Washington said--Obedience commanded--How she commanded her
Servants--Her One Book, next to the Bible, consulted--What
Everett said of it--Quotations from it--They teach Honesty,
Industry, Fidelity, Religion, etc.--Her
Ancestry--Courage--Afraid of Lightning--Her Singular
Dream--Weems' Explanation--Care of her Family--Mr. Sparks'
Tribute--Irving's Tribute--Her Son visits her before going to
War--Her Patriotism--Taking Charge of her Own Business--Her Joy
over Cornwallis' Surrender--Her Son's Visit to her--The Ball,
and his Staff introduced to her--Compared with Napoleon's
Mother--Lafayette's Visit to her--Her Son's Visit to her before
becoming President--Custis' description of the Scene--Her Death,
Burial, and Monument--Jackson's Eulogy--John Adams' Words--The
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VII.

YOUNG SURVEYOR.

His Mother's Views about his Future--The Plea of Lawrence--Goes
to Live at Mount Vernon--Lawrence's Eye on a Military Life for
him--Lessons in "The Manual Exercise"--Lessons in
"Fencing"--Reading Military Treatises--In the Family of William
Fairfax--What the Latter thought of him--Meets Lord
Fairfax--What Everett says of him--What Irving says--Reading
Books and Fox Hunting--An Unexpected Proposition--Becomes a
Surveyor--His Appearance now--Keeping a Journal--Extracts from
Letter and Journal--Mode of Life described--Hardships--What
Abbott and Everett say of his Hardships--Camping Out--In Indian
Wigwam--His Journal describes a Scene--Other Entries--What he
recorded--Sparks' Tribute to his Thoroughness as a
Surveyor--Everett's Tribute--The Stevenson Family--Sports with
the Seven Sons--Among his Officers, Later--Greenaway
Court--Appointed Public Surveyor--In Training for the War of
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VIII.

MILITARY HONORS.

The Proposition of Lawrence, and Discussion of it--Appointed
Adjutant-general--Ill Health of Lawrence--Decides to spend the
Winter in Barbadoes--George goes with him--Lawrence no
Better--George has the Small-pox--Returns to Virginia in
April--Lawrence returns in June and dies in Six Weeks--George
one of his Executors--What Everett says of it--Enters Masonic
Lodge-