Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1857-04-07

ttfamilY an autograph letter of compliments from
4 Washington hin,setE The sword lad on its blade
tbis iasuFfp ptiol-i Penrsy yIvania Light Dragons:
|: For God aud my Country = and its sow in the
possesgion of one fthe sons ofse4pt George.-
Wbat became OF the pistols, is not known TO the
i preseqt generation. They were borrowed in the
war oflsI2-but nc one remembers by whom. The
III wrrF of these Notes believes that the pistols were
lost btf0rs his Bfrthcertainly before his eariies
recollsctions. He would rejoice to see them 10
get Hint Ehereby he might trace them. even to their
ifecovety The fact that they were used lin he
/: half OF God and the Right 1871 years ago, is
t*snlicient cause for snch desire.
\! Cen. La rke (Noi XXS1 and Capt. George North
3were deyoedly attached TO each other Indeed on
loss the soFaIg R6bship of4iis elder hr0thef Oh
eh seems have been supplied by The generons and
! gallant old hero ist named Their compGnionshp
liwus brief; tor Gen DaTke died in 1901. He named
3his yoaD friend in his last viii, of his Exec
tutors, and perpetuated in many other modes those
fel lings of mutuad and kindness which ami
i matedtte hearts OF those two war-worn soldiers
This mutual feeling OF kindness survives TO this day.
in the hearts OF children and chtld-ens children-in
Remembrance the precept- Thine own friend, and
3hy fathers friend, orsake not" The eldest sou of
A Capt n bears now the name Of William Dorke, and
i himself from the General; and The second son owns
the gohlcn eauletes, which his father received az
/ present from the old hero.
| Capt North was married twice. His second wife,
stinliviug, was the sister OF No XXXiV-which see.
His first vile he married in Pennsy yyauia By her he
/ had four children. The eldest Mrs Ann Smith Mark
yidowof tie late Samuel Mark, is living now in AL
! eyandria-see Ii. The second child was the Mrs
Gibbs above mentioned. THE other tN died in in
| Fancy Coming TO Virginia, asahoye stated, about
1900 he married his second wife eiml794 who ss,ill
! iviug--n her SD yeur-not oath, rs before stated
| erroncously This venerable matron was born willie
| our nation was subject to Great Britain. Born at
| keyes' Ferry-mnrried nt HNlltown, Cat one OF her
duce's, in the same house where Mr.. Henderson now
resides )-and having buried her husband in Fairfax,
where she resided only three four yearS-she has
.ever dwelt during her three score years and ten,
| tlsewhe1e than in the immediate neighhorhood OF
er own birthplace aAd that of her mother, as stated
ia No x.ixIv Her children, however, have par aiken
q the same restless, rowing disposition that charac-
4erzed her seafaring father and her military hus-
| land. They nine in number six'nf them still
| living All six have reared children rearing
,hpm-sonc having grand children. My limits for
hid my tracing them in their dispersions-reachiug
perhaps TO more than half of the States of the Union,
Is South America and other foreign lands.
The writer of these Notes. having completed
what he undertook, on discoveri that h,nosed
list (hc roll of 81 original subscribers to the Acad.
cmy, frankly acknowledges that one of his objects
| hls been 10 honor beloved parent, whom he re-
! nfernbcrz ~ have scea place IL coffin; first
c,;lfn he ever saw; aud Samhel Mark ttbove reler-
pA tU) lird that hoportd hut lteleSs head into it's
narrow ?ccepaclc. This is distinctly recolIected by
tie writer nnd the said writer, in this his Grst lit
eiary effort, on returning to the home of his child
hJod, (his own cherished " cubac @cIectum,D does
nothing more than attempt TO fulfil the fftl COM
;n,pninltut of the Decalogue.
| Il know no way Of honoring parents who " rest
f:&m their Iubors" better than by executing for the
generation to come, that good work OF improving
| the Mind, which they commenced.
| I'VE haze now Messrs. Editors, gone through tie
llst of 81 gentleman whose peeuni"ry help was as
seatA to the existence Of the Academy but, we are
agt to overlook those who, although not nble, per-
maps, TO give money, were nevertheless ready 10
:,,,ind by the enterprise, aud encourage it with the
help OF their cou sell their time and their prayers
| Therefore as stated in foruler communication, we
! nnt,ucrnte in our list two well-knOwn gentlemen
! sbsn resident here-onc very old the other quite
| yonng-fwhom the 81 gentlemen contributors, at
}Etr first public meeting, Clec ed TO put INTO ais
I6ccramteni, by giving them place in the Board OF
Trustees Thus the fathers,n fixing the foundations
| If soCety, for the county OF ofJehrrson, then,
Soon to be formed, had the ability to see that money
Eoald not command quite all things under the sun;
| 5uG thatth re may be characters III acommunItyto too
moor to give silver and guld but with treasures OF
mind and henrt more than sufficient to Counterbal-
spce the disadvantage arising from poverty
2 The two names, now to be added, deserve all
| fbat is impli in the observations just now
! Elade.
: LXXXII.-Alexander white.-0ne of the first
things recollect, in my "reminiscences of Cat Tau
! Rn, (where Ilived when very young before my
| a:hool hoy days, s,)-was that my mother used TO
Eoint out spot far up The run, towards Charles
| tDS n, as the place where old Aleck White USED 10
i've. The house was at near Fleetwood, tue res
! Hence of tho late John Aoure--the little stream
arsining that valley, and emptying in tile shenan-
So.h att yestal's Ford, heing named Cat-Iqtt,
| hom the5mursh-weed OF that name a6onnding on
T.
! AZ that time, ! knew not who cold Aleck WhieH
| Sas-7and ii never occurred TO me TO inquire. he
asemed ID have died many years before that, .old
| dad full 5f years y and that all knew him.
| shave since learned, however, that Archibald alex
! soaer-Gne ofthe most eminent ministers ofthe
/ 2,ospel known in the last hundred years, boarded
| while quite young preacher, with this Mr. White,
! tsho wasat tn time member (peFhaps Ruilng
! EIderl of,he Presbyterian Church of Gharlestown
! There was no building known then, as church, OF
any denoaiualiop, in the limits Of our town put
as IN Apostolic times the churchwas sstR me hoNse =
and5ahout tue time ofthe founding f4he Academy
thess Was church habitpaliy assembling foF pub
lie worship in Mr. Whites house ;and the minister
vths afIiciafed temporarily was tas he VS. called
aloEg this h native Valley some e5 years ago}-5
sils l,cy Archy Alexander the same who died at
Princeton recently after 40 years service in laying
thcsounddtion ofths "school Ofthe pFophetsi there
situated
Nj White had son, well. known 70 tame-TTtne
n 1,ti,ifn for s man Z vears Judge oftte