in boston, washington would petition govan shirley to rank him above captain dagworthy governor granted permission in washington set out in early february accompanied by two servants and two of subordinate us officers on horseback of over 1,000 miles. with a so he determined his fate and left behind what command he did have and with it his responsibility for guarding the frontier. ... susanna phillips, and she was the daughter of the lord of the manor of phillipsburg. so the phillips had been granted sometime earlier, another one of these huge chunks of oil land grants in the hudson valley. so susanna was part of that family and it happened that susanna had a younger sister pauli who was 26 and she was an eligible arras to 51,000 acres. something about george washington is that he always had an eye for land and for the ladies. so george washington in new york riding on his way to boston takes polly and susanna out of the town. of course in this day there's no broadway plays as we know them. there is broadway, however. if the dirt street up the middle of manhattan island. the thing that'

winchester but the remainder were for coming aware of the bible dag were the long dash of his rifle d3 dagworthyso he sent a rally to winchester only 15 men showed up all my ideal hopes to raise a number of men to vanish into nothing. so the inhabitants of this county but their perverseness. washington and would learn much and waiting for opportunities to avoid major battles that would come to fruition in the distant future where he served as commander-in-chief of a far larger body of troops but things only got worse along the frontier and panic spread the residence anticipated a full-scale attack any moment townspeople assisted by soldiers at washington's order chop down bushes and trees to prevent the ambush from hiding so that this point washington does not know whether to keep all the few men that he has been winchester or scatter them out in the area. he does a very smart thing he calls his subordinate officers into a meeting and he solicited everybody's opinion what to do and listened very carefully and he deliberated. this is one of the first instances of washington doing this really cons