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These materials are available for educational uses only. If you would like to reproduce them in any other medium, please contact Dawn Bonner, Manager of Visual Resources. Back to Main menu Education. Metro Area. Estate Hours 9 a. We invite you to learn more about Indians in Virginia in our Encyclopedia Virginia. Skip to content. Dear Lund, Your letter of the 18th came to me by the last Post. First Last. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. When [General Washington] engaged in the contest he had put all to stake, and was well aware of the exposed situation of his house and property, in consequence of which he had given [Lund] orders by no means to comply with any such demands, for that he would make no unworthy compromise with the enemy, and was ready to meet the fate of his neighbors.

This reply angered Captain Graves, and he positioned the Savage closer to shore as if to bombard Mount Vernon. At the same time, the British commander invited Lund aboard his ship to discuss matters further. His presence [onboard the Savage ] produced the best effect, he was hospitably received notwithstanding he repeated the same sentiments with the same firmness. The captain expressed his personal respect for the character of the General….

This time Lund acquiesced to the British commander. The Marquis recorded that,. I am very sorry to hear of your loss; I am a little sorry to hear of my own; but which gives me most concern, is, that you should go on board the enemys Vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me, to have heard, that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my House, and laid the Plantation in ruins.

Fortunately for General Washington, little else came of the affair. The enemy flotilla left the Potomac within days of the incident and Virginians soon turned their attention to central Virginia, where a contest for control of the state had begun.

This contest would conclude six months later with an allied victory over the British at Yorktown. On his way to lay siege to the British at Yorktown, General Washington stopped at Mount Vernon, his first visit in six years. Probably so. But to the countless annual visitors to Mount Vernon, Lund Washington made a very good trade indeed. Boyd, ed.