The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-03-30

actions, ali her Intentions, without making my decia-
ration. hoped incelitly--i wa, az vet only in the
ourth year OF vigilance and obervation, when in the
moment leat expected, iie was carried OF by a
young man who knew her only four days.-Ths 1hall
be my alt trial, faid |, no more r-iove TO be-
GIN new amoprs fill love the ladies', but this fen
timent sccoa'panceby iueh tuidity, that cannot
again venture to ipeak to them.
additional srfancss o. Longr1tts, lin Virginia J
communicated BY Mr.. T. ofrf5e Court ot 1fb-
pcaL5.
l. Thomas Dance, late of the county of Chef
terheld, died about n. year l715, aged 1875
years. faw him at Chefer!ieli election, when
he was Is years of age, and fad ne had walked
eight mules to the contribute that morning.
He was born in London.
9. John Holloway, an old folder under the
Duke of Marlborough at the battle of Blenheim,
in 1904, died in Pruce-Edward county ABOUT
the year 1871, aged 1873 years. He was born in
England.
JAlys ToneS, when on the Prince Edward
circuit, year or two before his death, had a
long conver(ation with him az the court -houit
and publiihed DIN account of him in the Virginia
Gazette.
3. John CLEARWATER, Gan Englihman) died
IN the county of Amherf about the year 1887,
aged ll5.
der under the Duke Of Marlborough. at the
| battle of Blenheim) died in Goochland about
| the year 1896, aged Io4. He lived and died
within five miles of the place of my nativi-
| ty.
S. Anne Brown, (born in Glouceter county
Virginia. died in the county OF Hanover, about
the year 1897, aged 10 years. made her Il
viit the year before ihe died, and found her
reading in tefament, without fpectacles:
though ihe told me fle had ufed them for more
than fifty years but had, for about years
preceding my viht, enjoyed her fight as perfect
| ly as at the age of 40.
o. Mary Merritt, died near Ground Squir-
rel bridge, in the county of Hanover in the year
l777. Her age unknown, but fhe lived 80
| years with Merritt, her third hubbard, wro was
gardner to Sir William Berkeley, at James town,
when he was governor of Virginia. She furvi-
we'd her hufband, but how long is unknown.
| 7. John Pool died in Powhatan county in 1883,
aged 90.
! 8. Mary Pleafants, moth-r of the late MIR.
! Thomas Peafants of Goochland county,
died about the year 1899 or 90, aged 90.
! 9. Joieph Pollard, father of the late Judge
Pendleton's widow, & Grand father of the pre-
TENT clerk of Hanover court, died in the year
/ 1888 aged =. He had only one wife, with
whom he lived in the married fate IS years.
10. Mathew Farley, Ate of the county of
Powhatan. born in the year 1900, died in the
year 1891. wrote his will few months be-
fore his death.
IL. Samuel Landrum (my nearet neighbour)
t died IN Dec. sos, aged 81.
! IL. Mary Chattain, late of Powhatan coun-
ty, died in 1900, aged o5.
/ ls. Judith BingIey of Powhatan county, now
alive, aged iOI.
II. Charles Burton (now living in CheferfeId)
born in Sept. 100.
J In the time of Cor nwas's invafion in
1871, he ferved three months tour as a vo-
lunteerin the Cheterfied :; iIitia.
Is. lait Saturday s}G.ed neighbour,
Mr. Edward Woodbridge, and found him chat
ting with his wife, 20 whom, he told me, he
was married in the year 1912. They were both
in good health
was perfonaily acquainted with all the per-
ions before mentioned, except the tqvo marked
thus y.
/ was told, two years ago, by Mr.. Marion
Clarke, who lives near Louifville in Kentucky,
that he had % brothers and 9 Filters. That his
father had been thrice married, and was then
living in Lunenburg county, Virginia.
Extraf from Lord Liffleton's tour tire Wales,
| in 1879, PabHl5ed in TIE Anaal RegiRer of
1874.
6 Not lorg ago, there died, in the neiehbor-
hood OF Fettiniog, an honeh Welh farmer,
: " VINO was lo5 years Of age by his 6rf wife
4" he had thirty children, ten by his fecond, four
by his third, and feven by two concubines /;
his yOungeit fon was 81 years Younger than
his edeft ; and 500 perfons, defended from
his body, attended his funeral"