Martha Washington

Nicholas Cresswell

Kennikat Press

1968-00-00

published primary source

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Cresswell, Nicholas. The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1968.

“News that our Army has surprised Washington and taken him prisoner. Afraid it is too good to be authentic. His great caution will always prevent him being made a prisoner to our inactive General [Howe]….Before the expiration of the War [French & Indian] he [Washington] married a Mrs. Custis, a widow lady, with whom he had a very good fortune. By her entreaties he left the Army, in which he never gained any great esteem by his own country Officers or men….His House is at a place called Mount Vernon…where he has a very fine Plantation and Farm…He keeps an excellent table and a stranger, let him be of what Country or nation, he will always meet with a most hospitable reception at it. His entertainments were always conducted with the most regularity and in the genteelest manner of any I ever was at on the Continent (and I have been at several of them, that is, before he was made

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