Possession taken of the heights of Dorchester....

Boston evacuated....

Correspondence respecting prisoners.
{1775} The attention of Colonel Washington, for several years after his marriage, was principally directed to the management of his estate.

He continued a most respectable member of the legislature of his country, in which he took an early and a decided part against the claims of supremacy asserted by the British Parliament.

As hostilities approached, he was chosen by the independent companies, formed through the northern parts of Virginia, to command them; and was elected a member of the first congress which met at Philadelphia.