Selected for the Columbian Fountain.

COURTSHIP,


AND
MARRIAGE OF WASHINGTON
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II was in 1850 that an officer, attired in
military undress, and attended by body


servant, tall and miitaire as his chief, cros-
sed the ferry called Wiliams's, over the
Pomunky, branch Of the York river. On
the boat touching the Southern or New


Kent side, the soldiers progress was arrest
ed by one of those personages who give the
beau ideal of the Virginia gentleman of the
old regime, the very soul of kindness and
hospitality. il was in vain the soldier urged
his business at Williamsburg, important
communications to the governor, SIC. Mr..
Chumberlayne, on whose domain the mill


taire had just landed, would hear of no ex-
cuse. Colonel Washington was name
and character so dear to all Vuginans, that