324.] [Footnote 3: _Historical Magazine_, 3d series, 1873.

Letter communicated by Fitzhugh Lee.] [Illustration: Mary Cary] When Captain Dagworthy, commanding thirty men in the Maryland service, undertook in virtue of a king's commission to outrank the commander-in-chief of the Virginian forces, Washington made up his mind that he would have this question at least finally and properly settled.

So, as has been said, he went to Boston, saw Governor Shirley, and had the dispute determined in his own favor.

He made the journey on horseback, and had with him two of his aides and two servants.

An old letter, luckily preserved, tells us how he looked, for it contains orders to his London agents for various articles, sent for perhaps in anticipation of this very expedition.