Philip Lee (valet) dating history

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This evening Uncle was telling me some of the incidents of his younger days. Among others the time when he first got his new Phaton. Grandmama Washington, he said gave him the Mount Vernon Fisheries for a year & he made by it a thousand dollars – With 600 of this, he determined to get a [blank] He wrote to some friends in Philadelphia who procured an elegant one – Kings yellow & black was the body & the wheels were scarlet – & so the part underneath – The equipage arrived in Alexandria & Uncle with his servants & horses went up from Mount Vernon – 'Never, said he shall I forget the joy of that day, nor the great to do, that was made, when I arrived at Mount Vernon in it – they all came out to see me – I sent to England to know what were my coat of arms Livery & got for answer blue & white – so, Phill my servant, in his blue & white livery trimmed with white worsted lace, all of wh[ich] was procured in England, was sometimes mounted by my side and I drove four horses. Oh! those were happy days my child, that will never come again!