Thackeray intimates that Washington was too evidently on the lookout for a rich wife, which, if true, may account for some of the alleged rebuffs.

I do not believe this assertion, nor do I find evidence for it.

Washington was always a very careful, farseeing person, and no doubt had a clear idea of what constitutes desirable qualifications in marriage, but I believe he would have married a poor girl out of the workhouse if he had really loved her.

However, he was not put to that test.
One May day Washington rode off from Mount Vernon to carry despatches to Williamsburg.

He stopped at William's Ferry for dinner with his friend Major Chamberlayne.